Erik Wrede
StackAI (YC W23) at Asana
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolErik Wrede is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, scalable web and microservice architectures from Cologne, Germany. He is a GraphQL expert and active maintainer on the GraphQL-Python team and Strawberry-GraphQL core developer, contributing significant type-conversion and datatype support improvements to widely used projects like graphene and graphene-sqlalchemy. His background spans backend systems in Python and Java ecosystems, SPAs with Vue/Angular, and DevOps automation, with hands-on experience digitizing university workflows and optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable across the full stack, he focuses on practical engineering trade-offs that reduce errors and operational work while improving maintainability. Beyond day-to-day product work, Erik mentors students and contributes upstream fixes and refactors that benefit the broader open-source GraphQL community.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
German, English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (12)
graphql10
sqlalchemy10
pytest10
python10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
graphene10
type-checking9
typehinting9
database-design8
testing7
documentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-python/graphene-sqlalchemy
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Graphene SQLAlchemy integration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 65 reviews, 32 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Erik made significant contributions to the `graphene-sqlalchemy` project, focusing on enhancing type conversion and compatibility. Their work included adding support for new data types, such as UUID, and improving the handling of hybrid properties and union types. They also refactored the type conversion system, aligning the handling of both columns and hybrid properties. Furthermore, they released new beta versions of the project.
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graphql-python/graphene
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
GraphQL framework for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 100 reviews, 27 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor improvements within the Graphene framework. Their work included fixing test failures related to data type handling, resolving typos in documentation, and merging branches. They also addressed issues related to scalar types, particularly for BigInt, and made adjustments to support newer versions of libraries and improve code maintainability. Additionally, the user updated the project's version information.
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