Stanley Rost
Senior Software Engineer at GROPYUS
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolStanley Rost is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 19 years of experience building reliable systems, mentoring teams, and shaping architecture and operational processes across organizations. He has transitioned from hands-on native iOS development to leading backend and platform efforts—owning billing and subscription services, driving large migrations, and improving CI/CD, observability, and deployment practices. At Doodle he combined technical leadership with cross-team coordination, working with Java/Spring, Kafka, Kubernetes, and monitoring stacks to boost stability and maintainability. Stanley emphasizes team culture, diversity, and clear communication, mentoring engineers and embedding best practices into day-to-day workflows. He also contributes to open-source maintenance work (notably backend refactors on HockeyKit) that highlights his attention to code hygiene and pragmatic legacy modernization.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Inf., Computer Science, Dipl. Inf., Computer Science at HTWK Leipzig
German, English
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Github Skills (12)
version-control10
git10
debug10
php10
maintenance10
refactoring10
code-cleanup10
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bitstadium/HockeyKit
Sep 2010 - Mar 2011
HockeyApp was retired and the SDKs are deprecated. Please use App Center instead.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Stanley primarily focused on maintaining and refactoring the back-end PHP code of the HockeyKit project. They fixed various bugs related to glob() function behavior and undeclared variables. Further, the user restructured the code base by extracting helper methods and separating iOS and Android code. They also refactored foreach syntax, and added some checks and removed unused code.
app-centercenterjavascriptsdkshockeyapp
Soryu/RequestBuilder
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Networking client helper library based on promises and request behaviours
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 5 months
javascriptnetworkinghelper-librarypromisesbehaviours
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