Wilhelm Berg
Owner at BergWerk EDV-Dienstleistungen e.U.
Austria
Summary
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RockstarWilhelm Berg is an experienced DevOps and build automation specialist with 13 years focused on GIS and mapping technologies from his base in Austria as owner of BergWerk EDV-Dienstleistungen. He has deep hands-on expertise hardening CI/CD pipelines and Windows build flows for high-profile open-source projects like Mapnik, Mapbox, OSRM and node-pre-gyp. Wilhelm’s work spans cross-platform build tooling, AppVeyor/PowerShell automation, node-gyp/node-pre-gyp packaging and installer refinements that make complex C++/Node.js bindings reliably distributable. He combines full-stack touches (Unity SDK fixes and UX polish) with low-level release engineering, which means he both ships features and ensures they can be built and published at scale. A practical problem-solver, he often focuses on making failing builds fail loudly and produce actionable logs—small changes that dramatically improve debugging and release velocity.
12 years of coding experience
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
map-box10
build-script10
c-language10
npm10
mapbox-gl10
windows10
gdal10
cmake10
mapnik10
batchfile10
appveyor10
cicd10
automation10
script10
ci-cd-pipeline10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mapnik/node-mapnik
Mar 2014 - Apr 2017
Bindings to mapnik for node.js
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build EngineerContributions:138 commits, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wilhelm's contributions primarily focused on improving the build process and adapting it for different operating systems, especially Windows. They modified build scripts, including PowerShell scripts and batch files, to download dependencies, copy necessary files, and integrate with the mapnik SDK. Further enhancements included adding node-gyp integration, adapting the build for different mapnik versions, and setting up the publishing process using node-pre-gyp for S3.
node-jsnodejsmapnik
mapbox/node-pre-gyp
Jul 2014 - Aug 2016
Node.js tool for easy binary deployment of C++ addons
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wilhelm's contributions center around improving the build and testing process for the `node-pre-gyp` project. They made changes to the `test.bat` script used within the AppVeyor CI/CD pipeline to ensure builds fail when tests fail and to provide more detailed output. Furthermore, the user modified the `test/build.test.js` file to support different versions of Visual Studio. These changes improve the reliability and the debugging capabilities of the project's build process.
cppaddonsdeploymentnode-jsnodejs
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