Curriculum Vitae

Practical Experience

Technical (Agile) Coach / Leadership Consultant / Software Consultant / Founder

unblocked.engineering – INOCEA Consulting Ltd.

Helping software companies as a consultant and coach specialized in (technical) leadership and developer experience, facilitating engineers to excel by removing technical, structural, and cultural obstacles.

Tech Lead / Product Lead / Senior Software Engineer

BRYTER GmbH, Remote

Founded and led a cross-functional platform team to improve developer experience and productivity, implementing continuous delivery, reducing lead time and driving cultural and technical changes towards engineering excellence.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: AWS, Kubernetes, DataDog, GitLab, N8N, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Docker, VueJS, TypeScript, Python, Terraform, Pulumi

Tech Lead / Architect / Full-Stack Engineer / Co-Founder

Weels, Remote

Weels – Reels for your website – A tool for conversion optimisation.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: AWS, Terraform, TypeScript, VueJS, Tailwind, Web Components, NodeJS, GitLab, Docker

Senior Software Developer / Architect / Tech Lead

PAYONE GmbH, Remote

Development of payment connectors and fraud prevention systems. Refactoring of monolithic applications to self-contained services.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: Java 8, Groovy, Spring 4 / 5, Spring Boot 2, Swagger, ActiveMQ, MySQL, Infinispan, Puppet, Ansible, Apache, Tomcat, Jenkins and Jenkins Pipelines, Docker, Rancher, Git, Kibana, Elastic Search, Karaf, OSGi, Camel, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, IntelliJ, VSCode, Kanban, TDD

Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Dräger Safety GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, Germany

Application development for distributed gas detection systems. Teaching Git, Git Workflows and TDD. Driving Software Craft awareness.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: C++ (98/11/17), Qt, Mercurial, Git, Jenkins and Jenkins Pipelines, Java, Groovy, Python, Docker, Azure Edge, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, QtCreator, IntelliJ, VSCode, Scrum, Kanban, TDD / BDD

Self-Employed Web Developer / IT Consultant

TOBSOLUTION, Lübeck, Germany

Developing custom web pages and web applications for small and medium businesses. Providing IT support and consulting as well as webhosting.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, Apache, Nginx

Student Research Assistant

Institute of Telematics, University of Lübeck, Germany

I/O-programming in Ruby an Java for research projects. Administration of teaching groups for C++ and Java programming.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: Java, Ruby, Netty, Git, XMPP, IntelliJ

Student Research Assistant

Institute of Technical Computer Science, University of Lübeck, Germany

Development of algorithms for the position control of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in C++ using the Robot Operating System (ROS). Setup of a coherent system for technical documentation, version control and continuous integration for AUV projects.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: C++, ROS, Git, Eclipse

Student Teaching Assistant

Institute for Software Engineering and Programming Languages, University of Lübeck, Germany

Exercise instructor for the module Software Engineering. Advisor for the software engineering practicum.

Student Research Assistant

Institute of Telematics, University of Lübeck, Germany

Design and development of distributed algorithms for autonomous vehicles.
Technologies, Tools and Methods: Java, Android, JNI, Git, IntelliJ

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science (1.3)

University of Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany
  • Subject: Software Systems Engineering
  • Focus: Smart Embedded Systems
  • Thesis: Monitoring Modulo Theories for Real-Time Logics

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (1.8)

University of Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany
  • Subject: Media Informatics
  • Focus: Human Machine Interaction
  • Thesis: Feature Driven Quality and Aesthetics Assessment in Photography

Skills

Programming Languages

  Kotlin, TypeScript & Java

  JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 & SQL

  Python, Groovy & Objective-C

  Ruby, Go (golang) & C++

Technologies, Tools and Methods

  AWS, CI/CD, Docker, GitHub, GitLab, Gradle, IntelliJ, Kanban, PostgreSQL, REST, Spring (Boot) & TDD

  ActiveMQ, Ansible, Java EE, Jenkins Pipeline DSL, Jenkins, Maven, MySQL, NodeJS, Selenium, Sonar, Terraform & VueJs

  NoSQL, Karaf, Kubernetes, MQTT, OSGi & React

  Angular, Cocoa, Google Protobuf & Ruby on Rails

Certificates

iSAQB Certified Professional For Software Architecture (Foundation Level)

Initiatives

  • Co-organizing SoCraTes Germany (Software Craft and Testing Conference) – 2018 to present
  • Rescue swimmer of the DLRG – 2006 to 2015
  • Voluntary paramedic at the ASB – 2003 to 2007

Hobbies

diving, sailing, surfing, kiting, software craft, psychology, cooking, cycling, swimming, skiing, automation