Andy Grunwald
Engineering Manager (Observability) at Engineering Kiosk
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAndy Grunwald is an engineering manager specializing in observability with 13 years of experience building and operating backend and SRE systems in cloud-native environments. Currently leading Observability at Cloudflare, he previously ran Site Reliability Engineering at Aiven and held multiple engineering leadership roles at trivago, combining hands-on Go development with release engineering and DevOps. An active open-source contributor, Andy has notable work on projects like goreleaser (Artifactory integrations), go-jira, rabbitmq’s Go client and google/go-github, and even dockerized a LaTeX build pipeline—demonstrating a focus on developer experience and production readiness. He also co-hosts a German weekly engineering podcast and organized the Düsseldorf Web Engineering meetup, underscoring his commitment to community and knowledge sharing.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
1.7, 1.7 at FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
api-doc10
content-management-system10
cms10
dockerce10
docker10
static-analysis10
server-communication10
contentmanagementsystem10
jira10
amqp10
server-client10
artifactory10
jira-rest-api10
testing10
user-authentication10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
andygrunwald/FOM-LaTeX-Template
Oct 2013 - Apr 2022
A LaTeX template for term paper, bachelor or master thesis for "FOM University of Applied Sciences"
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 133 commits, 106 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on improving the compilation process and build environment for the LaTeX template. They modified the `compile.sh` script to enhance its robustness by switching to bash, adding exit codes for error handling, and incorporating necessary dependencies. The user also addressed compile warnings and upgraded LaTeX packages, and configured a dockerized compilation environment, reflecting a focus on automation and CI/CD principles within the project. These changes improved the reliability and portability of the LaTeX compilation process.
termxelatexfommasterlatex-template
andygrunwald/go-jira
Aug 2015 - Nov 2022
Go client library for Atlassian Jira
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 354 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy's commits primarily focus on developing the core functionalities for interacting with Atlassian Jira. They have demonstrated expertise in defining data structures using Go, creating API requests, and interacting with the Jira REST API. The commits included creating new types, adding support for attachments, and refactoring various components. Their work indicates a strong focus on building and maintaining the backend logic for the go-jira library, allowing developers to interact with the Jira API.
jira-apigolangclient-librarygo-clientjira
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