Software engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tools. Passionate about open source, clean APIs, and developer experience. Previously at two Berlin-based startups and one large tech company.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Meridian Technologies

Berlin, Germany (Remote)

Mar 2021 – Present
  • ▸ Redesigned core data pipeline processing 50M events/day, reducing p99 latency from 4s to 280ms
  • ▸ Led migration from monolith to event-driven microservices across 6 teams
  • ▸ Introduced internal developer platform that cut service onboarding from 3 days to 2 hours
  • ▸ Mentored 3 junior engineers through structured 1:1s and design review sessions
Go Kafka Kubernetes PostgreSQL Terraform AWS

Backend Engineer

Stackfield GmbH

Munich, Germany

Jul 2018 – Feb 2021
  • ▸ Built real-time collaboration engine powering 200k daily active users
  • ▸ Reduced infrastructure costs by 35% through query optimisation and caching strategy
  • ▸ Maintained 99.98% uptime across 3 years of on-call rotations
Go Redis WebSockets PostgreSQL Docker

Software Engineer

Finleap GmbH

Berlin, Germany

Sep 2015 – Jun 2018
  • ▸ Developed payment processing integrations for 12 European markets
  • ▸ Led adoption of internal API standards adopted across 8 product teams
Python Django PostgreSQL React REST APIs

Education

M.Sc. Computer Science

Technische Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Thesis: Adaptive load balancing in distributed key-value stores

2013 – 2015

B.Sc. Computer Science

Universität Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Germany

2010 – 2013

Skills

Languages
Go TypeScript Python Rust SQL
Infrastructure
Kubernetes Docker AWS Terraform PostgreSQL Redis Kafka
Frontend
React Next.js TailwindCSS
Practices
System Design API Design TDD Code Review Technical Writing

Certifications

  • AWS Solutions Architect – Professional

    Amazon Web Services · Nov 2022

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

    Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Apr 2021

Languages

  • English Native
  • German Professional (C1)
  • Spanish Basic (A2)