Tim Schwenke
Software Engineer at Bayer
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolTim Schwenke is a software engineer based in Wuppertal, Germany, with nine years of experience building observability-focused and data-driven solutions at Bayer. He has a strong background in monitoring and instrumentation—designing Prometheus/Grafana/Loki-based systems during his bachelor thesis—and has applied that expertise to production tooling and CI/CD automation. Tim’s work spans backend services, REST API prototyping, and automated static analysis, using languages and tools such as Python, Java, C#, SAP/ABAP, and AWS. He contributes to open-source projects related to instrumentation, notably improving documentation, tests, and feature behavior for a FastAPI Prometheus instrumentator. Known for turning manual processes into automated, measurable workflows, he combines hands-on implementation with a pragmatic focus on observability and quality. Tim holds a B.Sc. in Information Science for Business and is pursuing advanced studies in IT Management.
9 years of coding experience
Certificate of Chamber of Industry and Commerce, IT Specialist for Application Development, Certificate of Chamber of Industry and Commerce, IT Specialist for Application Development at Georg-Simon-Ohm-Schule KölnBachelor of Science - BS, Information Science for Business, 1.7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Science for Business, 1.7 at Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
German, English, Russian, Latin
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Github Skills (16)
fastapi10
instrumentation10
prometheus10
python10
documentation9
testing8
metric8
java6
gunicorn6
grafana6
docker6
time-series6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-ecs6
promql6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
trallnag/prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Instrument your FastAPI with Prometheus metrics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 5 reviews, 81 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the project, which instruments FastAPI applications with Prometheus metrics. These updates included adding detailed descriptions for the parameters of the metrics functions, ensuring that content length is properly handled, and integrating new features like `should_only_respect_2xx_for_highr`. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to tests, fixing issues arising from changes in underlying dependencies.
exporterinstrumentationpythonfastapiprometheus
trallnag/kubestatus2cloudwatch
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Watches the status of resources in a Kubernetes cluster and uses the results to update a metric in Amazon CloudWatch.
Contributions:45 PRs, 122 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years 3 months
amazonstatuswatchescloudwatchamazon-cloudwatch
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