Amazon RDS Experts in Berlin

Transmission system operator – network provisioning platform (team lead)

• Designed the saga orchestrator in Python that provisions network fabrics with rollback.
• Split IP, identity, and resource allocation into bounded contexts with their own databases and typed clients.
• Implemented data access using DDD repositories and units of work, with no SQL in the domain code.
• Required integration tests using real PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ containers, and API fuzzing for every service.
• Introduced an agent workflow where a spec starts each change and a human approves every merge.
• Rolled out OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation through GitOps across eighteen Kubernetes clusters.
• Led incident response for stuck provisioning and recorded every outage as a post-mortem.

Languages and software used: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic v2, SQLAlchemy async, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Celery, pytest, testcontainers, schemathesis, Helm, Flux CD, GitLab CI, OpenTelemetry, pi coding agent.

Software product company – datacenter simulation SaaS (backend development)

• Built the asynchronous simulation pipeline as the second-largest contributor among more than twenty team members.
• Tagged every image by commit SHA and semver in the GitHub Actions deployment workflows.
• Diagnosed the RabbitMQ memory alarm that froze every simulation and fixed the limits in the Helm chart.
• Converted the test suite to function-style pytest, with coverage reported in every pipeline.

Languages and software used: Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, S3, EKS, Helm, Keycloak, GitHub Actions, pytest, mypy, ruff, SonarQube.

Internal AI platform – model serving and telemetry

• Built the FastAPI service that deploys open-weight models on GPU tiers as OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
• Upgraded production EKS by two Kubernetes minor versions and fixed zone-bound storage faults.
• Traced every model call, including its token count, cost, and latency, through the OpenTelemetry operator.

Languages and software used: Python, FastAPI, vLLM, LangGraph, pydantic-ai, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, EKS, Helm, Flux CD, Terraform, GitLab CI, OpenTelemetry, Grafana.

• Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD
• Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, CI/CD ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator

• Azure Landing Zone architecture: Design and implement a hub-spoke, multi-region-capable Azure landing zone that provides the secure, scalable and highly available foundation for autonomous driving and parking data/ML platforms.
• Compliance through Azure Policy: Enforce security and compliance standards across Azure subscriptions via Azure Policy (guardrails, deny/audit/deploy-if-not-exists), consistently achieving top-tier infrastructure security scores.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Automate provisioning and configuration of Azure resources with Terraform and Bicep, with changes delivered through reviewed CI/CD pipelines.
• Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog: Extensive experience operating Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog for centralized data governance, access control, lineage and auditing across workspaces.
• Monitoring and observability: Built and run infrastructure monitoring and logging with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki, covering platform health, alerting, troubleshooting and capacity trends.
• Platform at scale: Architected and operate cloud data/ML platforms supporting multi-PB vehicle data ingestion and simulation; orchestrate Argo Workflow-based recompute and autolabeling services scaling to 100k+ concurrent pods on AKS.
• Reproducible ML: Established reproducible training environments with dataset versioning and provenance tracking, enabling auditing and experiment reliability.
• Operational excellence: Automated GitHub organization management and CI/CD pipelines, improving developer productivity and deployment reliability; automated recurring operational processes.
• FinOps: Developed transparent resource utilization and cost-tracking for multi-project Azure environments.
• Leadership: Technical lead for infrastructure topics, collaborating with development, DevOps and security teams; technical interviewer and recruitment panel member for scaling the engineering team.

• Consulting an NGO in the field of data center sustainability in publicly funded projects (BMUKN with NADIKI and Umweltbundesamt with SIEC)
• Development of Python APIs and web applications, deployment on AWS/ECS with Terraform
• Collecting power consumption metrics for servers, CPUs, GPUs running AI workloads
• Technologies used: AWS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, CloudMap, VPC, Route53, Lambda, EventBridge, CodeBuild/CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Docker, Linux, Bash scripting, Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, SQL, MariaDB, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Prometheus, Zabbix, Kubernetes, Letsencrypt, certificate management

• Bootstrapping a CloudOps team and building a multi-cloud provider backend for a low-code Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with env zero

• Introducing user story mapping, ADRs, milestones, and backlog management

• Designing and developing core APIs, setting up CI/CD pipelines, OpenTofu/Terraform scripts

• Representing and communicating the team with third-party stakeholders (e.g. env zero)

• (Cross-)team coaching on DevOps, software design, Terraform, Golang, and agile practices

• Designed and deployed scalable REST APIs for enterprise clients
• Led migration of legacy systems to modern maintainable system, reducing deployment time and enabling daily deployments
• Mentored junior developers and collaborated cross-functionally to align technical roadmaps with business goals, improving team velocity by 50%.
• Tech Stack: PHP (Symfony), Golang, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes

• Technical leadership & SW architecture: Conducted trade-off analyses for technology stacks and led the design and implementation of the software architecture, including mobile and backend solutions. Facilitated Event Storming workshops for DDD and SW architecture.
• Strategic direction & organizational development: Played a key role in defining the strategic direction of the product and organization, exploring new forms such as ownership responsibility.
• Lean Startup & Agile development: Introduced Lean and Agile principles, implemented Lean prototypes, and ensured compliance with Lean Startup processes, iteratively moving from Product/Solution-Fit to Product/Market-Fit.
• Team building & collaboration: Facilitated workshops, retrospectives, and futurespectives to collaboratively develop tactics and strategies.
• Technologies: Flutter, JS/TS, React, Google Cloud, Firebase, Android, iOS.
• Organizational methods: Lean startup, lean canvas, lean agile, event storming, retrospectives.

Java 21 · Spring Boot 3 · Keycloak · PostgreSQL · Docker · Nginx · GitHub Actions · DigitalOcean · React 18 · TypeScript · Plasmo

• Architected and shipped a production-ready Job Application Tracker end-to-end: REST API with 5-stage workflow, pagination, sorting, and dynamic filtering — full ownership from design to live cloud deployment on DigitalOcean.
• Implemented production-grade identity management: OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect / JWT / RBAC via Keycloak, applying Hexagonal Architecture and DDD principles.
• Built automated CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions); containerised with Docker; Nginx reverse proxy with path-based routing and SSL termination.
• Developed a Chrome Extension (Plasmo framework, Manifest V3) that auto-fills job applications directly from LinkedIn into the tracker — demonstrates full product thinking across backend API and browser client.

• Development of control units for the automotive industry incl. embedded software
• CAN bus, Vector Tools, CANoe
• Support of the development process according to ISO 26262
• Ensuring cyber security standards:
• Key exchange (PKI) between vehicle and control units
• Hardware Security Module (HSM)
• Communication with external service providers (international)
• Development (PCB) of measuring adapters, statistical analysis of sensors
• IoT and embedded software development, backend administration

• Building the strategy and managing the company.
• Consulting on cloud technologies with a focus on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Leading automation projects and CI/CD pipeline implementations.

In a lean, execution-focused environment, I took ownership beyond a narrow engineering lane, shaping and implementing systems across backend, data, and infrastructure. Partnered directly with the three founders in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment, turning strategic priorities into concrete technical decisions and production outcomes.

• Owned core platform development across backend (Django/Rest Framework/Postgres), ETL (Python/Dagster), infrastructure (Terraform/Kubernetes/AWS), and frontend (typescript/react) for a climate-tech SaaS product, driving continuous cross-stack development across five repositories from October 2021 to this day.
• Architected and owned a standalone internal Python scoring framework for CRC assessments, using YAML-driven rules and metaprogramming to enable non-technical users to define complex evaluation logic without hardcoded implementations.
• Built and stabilized ETL and scraping pipelines using Dagster and Scrapfly, improving document ingestion, tagging, retry behavior, deployment flow, and operational resilience.
• Contributed to platform modernization and reliability through Django/Python upgrades, Postgres/RDS and EKS changes, CDN/TLS updates, test and performance improvements, and observability hardening.
• Drove backend engineering for product features, translating requirements into technical specifications, API contracts, data structures, and scalable implementation plans.

• Developed high-performance APIs for SDK backend on JavaEE Web, iOS, and Android, improving application performance and scalability by 30%.
• Led system design, tech stack planning, and development, ensuring 98% uptime with strong code quality and automated tests.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing release cycle time by 40%.
• Deployed cloud-native applications on AWS EC2 instances, ensuring 99% uptime and optimized performance.
• Delivered clean code with full unit, component, and integration test coverage, reducing defects by 25%.
• Collaborated across engineering, QA, and product teams to deliver secure, reliable solutions.
• Mentored team members, increased development efficiency by 20%, automated routine tasks, and contributed to hiring, growing team capacity by 15%.

• Led the implementation of a critical backend initiative for the offer teasing feature, resulting in a 10% increase in users actively seeking counter offers.
• Contributed to high-impact features such as instant advice, customer ratings, and automatic contract switching, leading to increased user engagement and conversion rates.
• Built a gRPC service to integrate internal systems with the ERP platform, improving the reliability and observability of data exchange.
• Refactored parts of the legacy Ruby codebase into a more maintainable and scalable Elixir-based architecture.
• Delivered a greenfield project from concept to production on a new stack, integrating with internal services and managing infrastructure setup and deployment.
• Collaborated closely with the front-end team, product managers, and cross-functional team members to ensure the seamless integration of backend features, fostering effective communication and collaboration across disciplines.
• Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, Cognito, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Terraform, Helm, Docker, CI/CD, Grafana, Prometheus, Git, Agile Methodology.