Philipp Meier
Staff Software Engineer at nubank
Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarPhilipp Meier is a Staff Software Engineer based in Neu-Ulm with five years of hands-on experience delivering backend stability and security improvements. He focuses on abstracing developer pain by maintaining and hardening server-side libraries, demonstrated through dependency and security patch contributions to the well-regarded Pedestal project. Philipp blends pragmatic engineering with a security-first mindset—updating core components like Jetty, Tomcat, and logging stacks to keep services compatible and safe. Colleagues rely on him for steady maintenance work that prevents incidents and reduces technical debt. Outside code, he applies a tinkerer’s curiosity to hardware (he builds keyboards) and balances a busy personal life as a father.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
clojure10
dependency-management10
logging10
pedestal10
clojure-cli10
jetty9
tomcat7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pedestal/pedestal
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
The Pedestal Server-side Libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily contributed to dependency updates and security patches, focusing on the project's underlying libraries. They updated various dependencies like `logback`, `tomcat`, `wunderboss`, and `slf4j` across multiple project files, including sample applications and core service templates. These updates addressed security vulnerabilities and ensured compatibility with newer versions of dependencies. Additionally, the user updated Jetty version to address specific security issues.
server-sidepedestalclojure
nubank/clj-github
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
A Clojure library for interacting with the github developer API
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
clojure
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