Roger Meier
Distinguished Engineer, Service Owner Code.siemens.com at Siemens
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Meier is a distinguished engineer and longtime Siemens leader who has spent 15+ years combining hands-on engineering with developer-facing platform stewardship, most recently as Service Owner of code.siemens.com. He founded and scaled Siemens’ internal social coding platform under the motto “for developers from developers,” enabling cross-domain collaboration across the company. Technically versatile, Roger contributes to and maintains open-source projects (Apache Thrift committer) and has practical full-stack and DevOps experience—evidenced by Sentry integrations for high-profile GitLab mirrors. He blends systems architecture, product ownership, and organizational change skills gained through roles from senior developer to principal key expert and unit manager. Based in Zurich, he complements engineering depth with executive training in SME management, making him as comfortable with strategy and stakeholder alignment as with code.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Diploma HSG in SME Management, Executive Diploma HSG in SME Management at Universität St.Gallen - Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und SozialwissenschaftenIngenieur FH, Ingenieur FH at ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Github Skills (25)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
sentry10
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
rails10
ruby10
chef-client10
gitlab10
chef-solo10
thrift10
back-end-development9
java9
serialization9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
apache/thrift
Oct 2010 - Jan 2017
Apache Thrift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:720 commits, 20 PRs, 67 comments in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Roger's commits primarily involve the implementation of a test suite for the Apache Thrift library in Python and Ruby, along with general test and utility code changes. The commits focused on testing string serialization, as well as adding cross language test cases for the generated libraries. The contributions included adding various features and improvements in Java. The user also addressed some general cleanups.
actionscriptapache-thriftnetwork-clientdartapache
gitlabhq/omnibus-gitlab
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
GitLab Omnibus Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Roger primarily focused on integrating Sentry error reporting into the GitLab Omnibus project. This involved adding configuration options for Sentry within various components, including the main application, Gitaly, and GitLab Pages. Furthermore, the user implemented tests to verify the correct behavior of Sentry integration and improved code style. The work included modifying configuration files and implementing features to enable or disable sentry and specify relevant settings.
new-issuestrackergitlabgitlab-omnibusissue-tracker
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