Rodney Gitzel
Owner at East Van Pottery Tools
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRodney Gitzel is a pragmatic software architect and senior developer with over two decades of engineering experience and 11 years in recent professional roles, specializing in Scala, reactive systems, microservices, and cloud-native patterns on AWS. He blends hands-on coding (functional and strongly-typed languages, Typescript) with architecture, Domain-Driven Design, and pragmatic refactoring to prioritize business value, readable code, and observable systems. Rodney has designed large-scale data migrations, container-based dev workflows, and serverless message-driven pipelines, and he’s comfortable troubleshooting both legacy “snowflake” infrastructures and greenfield designs. A maker at heart, he also runs a successful Etsy shop creating 3D-printed pottery tools, reflecting a practical, design-oriented approach that carries into his engineering craft.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Honours Computing Science, B.Sc. Honours Computing Science at University of Alberta
English
Stackoverflow
2,662reputation
778kreached
92answers
6questions
java
top-5%
Github Skills (90)
pluggable10
tuya10
python10
firmware10
automation10
esp3210
home-assistant10
simplify10
mqtt10
tasmota10
notification10
azure-devops10
home-automation10
transformation10
json10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rgitzel/azul-generator
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
generate alternate tile walls for the Azul board game
Contributions:41 commits, 10 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 3 months
tilemaptilecreatoralternateboard-game
rgitzel/mqttwarn
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Subscribe to MQTT topics (with wildcards) and notifiy pluggable services
Contributions:3 PRs, 48 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years
home-assistantmqttpluggablewildcards
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