Passionate engineer with full-stack and proven leadership expertise. Leadership, Architecture, Microservices, Continuous Delivery and NodeJS are my focus areas. Advanced knowledge in modern and scalable API development from planning and rapid prototying to production delivery. Fully dedicated to agile development methodologies.
Interests
- Leadership, Org Design, Empowering people
- DevOps, Automation
- Agile Methodologies - Scrum, Kanban
- Location Based Services, Digital Maps, IoT
- Web Development, APIs, Infrastructure as code and open standards
- Microservices & Distributed Systems
Technical Skills
- Programming languages
- Javascript, Java, Bash, Flutter, PHP, C/C++
- Web
- HTML5, CSS, NodeJS, React, Svelte, Angular
- Tooling
- Git, SVN, Jenkins, Gerrit, Make, Gradle, Grunt, Gulp, RPM, AWS, Heroku, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Terraform, Helm, Firebase
- Protocols
- HTTP, REST, GraphQL, MQTT, XMPP
- Database Systems
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, PostGIS, MongoDB, DynamoDB, CouchDB, ArangoDB
Experiences
- Head of Engineering at DigitalService GmbH des Bundes
- Dec 2021 - present
- DigitalService4Germany develops digital solutions with the German state. The people’s needs are at the core of what we do. Our goal: services that work better for everyone. Topics: Management, Strategy, Vision, Hiring, Architecture, Security.
- DigitalService GmbH des Bundes
- Chief Technology Officer at MedKitDoc
- June 2021 - November 2021
- Leading the engineering team and development execution to build and deliver an MVP based on an initial Prototype to treat patients remotely supported by medical devices like stethoscope and pulseoxymeter in realtime. Medical product certification based on ISO 13485 and secure medical video certification. Topics: Management, Strategy, Vision, Hiring, Architecture, iOS, Android, CI, CD, Java, React, AWS.
- MedKitDoc
- Chief Technology Officer at Curalie GmbH
- July 2019 - May 2021
- Leading the engineering team and development execution to deliver a first product. Medical product certification based on ISO 13485. Scaled the Team from 10 to 30 engineers. Introduced OKRs. Topics: Management, Strategy, Vision, Hiring, Architecture, React, React Native, CI, CD, Kubernetes.
- Curalie
- Head of Engineering at smart Helios GmbH
- April 2019 - June 2019
- Leading the engineering team through a transitioning period. Focus on team play, innovation and continuity Topics: Team Management, Strategy, Vision, React, React Native, CI, CD, Kubernetes.
- Lead Engineer at smart Helios GmbH
- September 2018 - April 2019
- Enginering lead for innovative digital health solutions. Topics: NodeJS, AWS, Docker, React, React Native, CI, Codeship, Team Management.
- smart Helios
- elmavia.com
- Lecturer at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
- November 2017 - March 2019
- Lecturing about automated spatial data processing in theory and practice. Teaching scripting skills to solve data problems.
- qzmkr.com for multiple choice testing
- Lead Engineer at HERE
- May 2017 - August 2018
- Leading a technical team of senior engineers in the DevOps field. We make sure, that every changeset makes it into production. The stacks vary from Microservices running on AWS ECS and Kubernetes, dynamic and static web deployments, Android and iOS apps which are all delivered via CI/CD. Coaching Teams to do DevOps and make sure we synchronize with the overall Organization. Building up a Data Engineering Team. Topics: NodeJS, AWS, Docker, Apache Kafka, Microservices, CI, Jenkins, Team Management.
- HERE Tracking
- Senior Software Engineer at HERE
- December 2014 - April 2017
- Building large scalable location based APIs & Solutions powering HERE Maps for Android, iOS and web. Development in an agile environment, managing Releases and taking care for full availability of our services. I am improving development processes with tools for simple and fast continuous deployments. Managing Scrum processes of a highly experienced Backend Team and therefore improving the overall Performance. Topics: NodeJS, AWS, Docker, Apache Kafka, Microservices, CI, Cloud Computing & Operations.
- Software Engineer at HERE
- December 2013 - November 2014
- Building large scalable location based APIs & Solutions powering HERE Maps for Android. Development in an agile environment, managing Releases and taking care for full availability of our services. Improving development processes with tools for simple and fast continuous deployments. NodeJS, AWS, CI, Cloud Computing & Operations.
- Software Developer at Nokia
- November 2012 - November 2013
- Web Mapping, Spatial Data Visualization, Frontend Development, Cloud Computing, NodeJS, MongoDB, C++, Embedded Systems
- Web Developer, Intern at Nokia
- July 2010 - September 2012
- Javascript Web Frontend Development, NodeJs, MongoDB, Responsive Web on all Screen Sizes, Web Mapping, Focus: Outdoor
- Web Developer, Intern at GIZ
- Different Internships with focus on GIS Data Collection and Software Development
Projects
- Extreme Focus an OKR Management platform to supercharge your Organization.
- The Juu is a service and progressive web app for self improvement through micro challenges
- Milky Day: A Simple Bottle feeding tracker Android App - simple bottle feeding tracker without any registration, ads or tracking
- 2018