Sven Hohlfeld
Helfer Für Gute Software at Helfer für gute Software
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSven Hohlfeld is an experienced IT consultant and software engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience helping banks, automotive, medical and startup teams improve testing, CI/CD and delivery processes. He combines practical engineering—contributions to Go authentication tooling like the notable goth repository—with leadership in large-scale projects and agile transformations involving teams of up to 800 people. Sven runs focused, evidence-based two-week test audits that surface hidden risks and deliver prioritized, actionable roadmaps to reduce bugs, shorten release cycles and cut maintenance costs. He also offers subscription test-production services to steadily increase coverage and replace brittle manual testing with reliable automation. Known for translating complex legacy landscapes into measurable improvements, he blends tool expertise (Playwright, Cypress, Kafka, Camunda, AWS/Azure/GCP) with pragmatic change management. Based in Hanover, Germany, Sven brings a finance-aware mindset from long experience with financial services, helping decision-makers turn gut choices into fact-driven investments.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker Wirtschaft Informatik, Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker Wirtschaft Informatik at University of Applied SciencesSparkassen-Betriebswirt, Sparkassen-Betriebswirt at Stadtsparkasse Hannover
Github Skills (7)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
apidoc9
api9
dependency-management8
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
markbates/goth
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Package goth provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to write authentication packages for Go web applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 31 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sven primarily focused on enhancing the `goth` package, a Go-based authentication library. Their contributions involved modifying the state handling mechanism for authentication requests, specifically altering how state parameters are fetched. Further work included updating dependencies, addressing pathing issues, and improving the Apple provider integration. The user also made minor improvements to testing procedures.
authenticationgo
wunderkind2k1/mydotfiles
Jun 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.