Vadim Bauer
Founder & CEO at 8gears
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Bauer is a founder and cloud-native engineer with 12+ years of experience building and commercializing container registry solutions, currently leading 8gears and maintaining the CNCF Harbor project. He blends deep systems and API-level engineering—demonstrated by contributions to projects like jbake and Portus—with product leadership that delivers an enterprise Harbor distribution (8gcr) and Harbor-based managed offerings. Vadim has guided cloud transformations and platform designs for large enterprises (Siemens, Zurich, UBS) and founded multiple startups, showing a rare mix of hands-on coding, architectural vision, and go-to-market execution. Based in Zurich, he focuses on advancing OCI artifact management and software supply chain UX while remaining an active open-source maintainer and occasional snowboarder.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Informatik, Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Informatik at Universität SiegenUniversitat Politècnica de València
English, German, Spanish, Russian
Stackoverflow
5,455reputation
881kreached
71answers
54questions
jenkins
top-5%
jenkins-pipeline
top-5%
Github Skills (30)
asciidoctor10
parserator10
ruby-rails10
parser10
apidoc10
static-site-generator10
testing10
rails10
java10
ruby10
javas10
api10
crawler10
jenkins-pipeline9
jenkins9
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
jbake-org/jbake
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Java based open source static site/blog generator for developers & designers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Vadim primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the jbake static site generator. Their work included modifying the crawler and parser to improve how pages and posts are handled and processed. The commits also involved adding and modifying Asciidoctor integration, including configuration options, and fixing test cases dependent on locale-specific rendering. Several commits focused on refining the parsing logic and adapting the code to use the standard property style.
blog-siteblog-generatorstatic-sitejbakejsinterop
SUSE/Portus
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Authorization service and frontend for Docker registry (v2)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 196 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vadim focused on implementing and maintaining the REST API for managing users and application tokens. This involved writing code to create, retrieve, update, and delete users and their associated tokens. The user also wrote tests to ensure the proper functioning of the API endpoints, demonstrating proficiency in testing frameworks and API design principles.
containersauthorizationrailssecuritydocker-registry-v2
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