You could say I’m a nerd. All along I was fascinated by computers and the resulting opportunities. I coded little graphic demos on CeBit in the mid 90ies using QBasic, wrote a file explorer with Pascal and started to work on a boot loader in Assembler.
since 01/2021
Senior Software Engineer
Making the performance of the platform even more predictable
Contentful GmbH, Berlin
10/2019 – 12/2020
Year Off
Exploring some parts of the world, ending in a lockdown in NZ, being recovered to Germany and starting a tour throughout Northern Europe
04/2019 – 10/2019
Team Lead Merchant Offers
Migrating Merchant Stock and Price Services to new infrastructure
Zalando SE, Merchant Operations, Berlin
09/2018 – 03/2019
Senior Software Engineer (Scala)
Designing, implementing and maintaining a Kafka-based event consumer used for real-time article reporting
Zalando SE, Merchant Operations, Berlin
02/2018 – 08/2018
Senior Software Engineer (Scala)
Implementing a workflow platform based on business process models
Zalando SE, Merchant Operations, Berlin
09/2017 – 01/2018
Senior Software Engineer (Scala)
Exploring an abstract data model for content, looking into CQRS and Event Sourcing, discovering opportunities in providing services
Zalando SE, Partner Solutions, Berlin
04/2017 – 08/2017
Senior Software Engineer (JavaScript)
Writing prototypes for a new fashion experience using a content-based, API-only backend
Zalando SE, Brand Solutions, Berlin
01/2017 – 03/2017
Senior Software Engineer (JavaScript)
Extending a B2B analytics application based on Google BigQuery
Zalando SE, Brand Solutions, Berlin
05/2016 – 12/2016
Senior Web Developer, Head of Frontend Engineering
Leading a team of 6 to 12 developers towards a vertical structure
Kiwigrid GmbH, Dresden
01/2015 – 04/2016
Senior Web Developer, Platform Frontend Lead
Establishing coding standards and automation tools
Kiwigrid GmbH, Dresden
02/2013 – 12/2014
Web Developer, Head of UX/UI
Introducing AngularJS company-wide
Kiwigrid GmbH, Dresden
06/2012 – 01/2013
Senior Web Developer
Developing back office and CRM applications
FFG FINANZCHECK Finanzportale GmbH, Hamburg
03/2011 – 05/2012
Senior Web Developer
Integrating B2B APIs and connecting to REST interfaces
Netvacation GmbH, Hamburg
09/2010 – 02/2011
Web Developer
FFG FINANZCHECK Finanzportale GmbH, Hamburg
12/2007 – 08/2010
Web Developer
Speck, Obst & Gemüse Werbeagentur GmbH, Dresden
Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
JavaScript, NodeJS, React, Functional Programming
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Category Theory
Art & culture
Great ideas
Exploring
Photography
Rocket science
Tennis