Robert Biter
Principal Software Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Biter is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience designing and operating backend systems across JVM, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Go ecosystems. At Zalando he progressed from engineer to principal, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership on production services and routing infrastructure; notable open-source work includes contributions to zalando/skipper, an HTTP router and Kubernetes Ingress-focused reverse proxy. He favors Kotlin, has moved on from Scala, and brings pragmatic language judgement—knowing when Go’s simplicity or Node’s trade-offs suit a problem. With a master’s in distributed systems and a track record of refactoring, observability additions, and resilience improvements, he excels at improving maintainability and operational clarity in complex services.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Distributed Systems, Master's degree Distributed Systems at Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
Romanian, English, German, French
Github Skills (21)
url-routing10
testing10
java10
javas10
go10
h2-database10
database-design10
refactoring10
http-router10
dependency-management9
kubernetes9
ingress-controller9
kubernetes-pods9
card8
proxy8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
magefree/mage
May 2011 - Feb 2015
XMage - Magic Another Game Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:839 commits, 1 push, 8 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase, with several commits removing unused methods and states within the MageClient and CallbackClientImpl interfaces. They also changed the database backend from SQLite to H2, updated the EntityManager to use the new database, and fixed the auto-reconnect feature. Furthermore, the user removed dependencies like Trove4j, which were only used in the DeckBuilder, simplifying the project's dependency graph.
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zalando/skipper
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the `zalando/skipper` project by implementing and refining backend functionalities. Their work included fixing flaky tests, refactoring code to allow for wildcard name collisions in routing, and addressing bugs related to the handling of prepend filters. The user also integrated a new tracingTag filter, demonstrating an understanding of system instrumentation and observability. Furthermore, the user improved error messages, enhancing the usability of the tracing filter tests.
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