Andreas Willich
Team Lead at TechTalk
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Willich is a Vienna-based software leader with 11 years of experience who currently leads and mentors engineering teams at TechTalk while still contributing as a senior developer. He blends hands-on backend and automation engineering—evidenced by contributions to the Cucumber/Gherkin ecosystem, test migrations, and build/process modernizations—with a passion for community and developer relations cultivated through roles at SpecFlow and Tricentis. His background spans product-facing development, developer evangelism, and community maintenance, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and customer-focused communication. Andreas pairs formal technical training in electronics/technical informatics with ongoing business and psychology studies, helping him bridge engineering, user needs, and team dynamics. Notably, he has improved build pipelines and cross-repo tooling (including NuGet packaging and UTF8Json serialization updates), underscoring a practical focus on developer experience and reliable deliveries.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Psychology, Business Administration and Psychology at Ferdinand Porsche FERNFHIngenieur, Elektronik/Technische Informatik, Ingenieur, Elektronik/Technische Informatik at HTL Mödling
English, German
Stackoverflow
5,705reputation
334kreached
274answers
3questions
visual-studio
top-5%
automated-tests
top-5%
selenium
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
net10
dotnet10
gherkin10
asp-net10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
selenium9
cicd9
visual-studio9
automated-tests9
versioning9
msbuild8
protobuf7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/common
Nov 2018 - May 2019
A home for issues that are common to multiple cucumber repositories
Role in this project:
Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 25 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas contributed to the Gherkin parser project by fixing failing tests and migrating tests from Makefiles to unit tests within the Gherkin-DotNet sub-project. They refactored code, updated build processes, and addressed line-ending issues, specifically setting line endings to LF. The user also updated the project to use UTF8Json for serialization, improved the build process, and updated package versions. They also contributed to the Cucumber-Messages project by setting up Nuget package builds and related processes.
cucumber
test-automation-dev/test-automation.dev
May 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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