Philipp Mandler
Software Engineer at Micromata GmbH
Kassel, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Mandler is a software engineer based in Kassel, Germany with 11 years of professional experience building backend systems and web frameworks. He has been working at Micromata since 2017 while also maintaining freelance software development work, blending stable team delivery with independent project ownership. His open-source contributions include updates to the Rust web framework iron—modernizing hyper dependencies, request URL/body handling, and example fixes—demonstrating deep familiarity with concurrent web server internals. Philipp’s background includes research support in distributed autonomous systems and mentoring at a regional student research center, highlighting a persistent interest in distributed systems and teaching. He studied computer science at Universität Kassel and brings a practical, hands-on approach to evolving legacy stacks and making examples reproducible for other developers. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers improving robustness and developer experience in backend infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
Informatik, Informatik at Universität Kassel
Github Skills (5)
hyper10
web-framework10
rust10
dependency-management9
api-design8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
iron/iron
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
An Extensible, Concurrent Web Framework for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 34 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Philipp updated the `hyper` crate dependency and made changes to the request handling logic within the `iron` framework. These changes involved modifications to how URLs are parsed and constructed, as well as body handling for requests. The user also made several example updates and fixes to make the examples work with hyper 0.12, showing good understanding of the framework's internal workings. The user also removed the SSL features.
rustweb-framework
phlmn/docker-swarm-intro
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
An introduction to Docker Swarm
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
docker-swarmswarmdocker
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