Debian Experts in Berlin

• Designed, built, and launched an internal event planning web application used by over 100 department leads for a large event, despite having no dedicated testing phase.

• Ensured smooth, failure-free operation during first production use, leading to the tool being adopted for future events.

• Automated catering calculations and related workflows, significantly reducing email communication and manual computation effort for meal planning.

• Managed deployment and hosting on a Linux server using Coolify, including application setup and runtime operations.

• Hired and guided a communication designer on UX while independently owning all technical decisions and implementation.

The MiDAS program aims to integrate Generative AI across the entire BBM organization. My role is to enable the eBike division to adopt and leverage Generative AI by collaborating closely with the MiDAS team in India.

Management:

• Enable the eBike division to adopt GenAI through tailored solutions.
• Collaborate with the MiDAS team in India to design solutions for Generative AI use cases specific to the eBike division.
• Coordinate with the eBike teams to integrate GenAI systems, tools, plugins, and services provided by the MiDAS team.
• Plan roadmaps with eBike and MiDAS India team Product Managers for the delivery and integration of Generative AI solutions.

• Implementation of a full-stack application with Angular as the frontend framework and Java as the backend language
• Use of the Swagger OpenAPI specification for REST communication between the frontend and backend applications
• Control of a card printer via the Nexus Card SDK framework
• Design and implementation of card management software with a web interface and a JavaFX module for printer monitoring
• Use of Cucumber tests for test automation and creation of test artifacts to test outside the development environment
• Use of Wireshark for network investigations to analyze the API of a third-party product and to monitor the REST API of the self-developed software

• Led the redesign of an iOS and Android B2B SaaS solution.
• Developed the product vision and strategy and designed the platform architecture.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams to create a user-centered, forward-looking product.
• Identified market trends and analyzed feedback from stakeholders and customers.
• Developed a well-thought-out feature set.
• Led the product design and development process.
• Created Balsamiq wireframes.
• Conducted comprehensive market and competitor analysis.
• Defined the product roadmap and feature scope, managed and prioritized the backlog.
• Crafted and wrote epics and user stories.
• Briefed UI designers and reviewed and approved Figma layouts.

• Projects for federal networks (NdB).
• CR management, EoL change requests, design and documentation according to ITSCM.
• Data center planning.
• Project management and engineering subproject management.
• Software development for virtual server environments according to BSI.

• Industry: B2B
• Headless frontend with AEM integration
• Key challenge: Migrating a PWA application in live operation based on .NET and legacy code; the entire application must be converted to React and Express.js/TypeScript
• Technical frameworks: Tailwind, XML, JavaScript, Caddy, ReactJS, Express.js, REST API, JSON
• Cloudflare CDN
• Caddy server with GitHub CI/CD pipeline

• Configuration and management of routers and switches (e.g., Cisco, HP)
• Design and expansion of networks in corporate environments
• WLAN site surveys and optimization (e.g., with Ekahau, NetSpot)
• Implementation of security policies and access controls

• Built a portfolio website using Vue 3 implementing dynamic pages responsive UI components.
• Integrated OpenAI ChatGPT API for interactive AI content generation.
• Handled API requests and media management via Cloudflare, enabling efficient communication and asset delivery.
• Vue.js
• Vuetify
• C++, WPF
• Debian
• Matlab
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Tailwind CSS
• Cloudflare Workers
• GitHub Actions
• Node.js

• Owning, designing, securing, maintaining reliability of the cloud based platform environments
• Increasing developer productivity and growing the infrastructure team horizontally and vertically to 5 engineers
• Realised infrastructure cost reduction of 50% by utilizing efficient spot instances
• Improved PE developer efficiency by 15% with survey led development process

• Freelance software engineer focusing on backend (Python/Django) and frontend (VueJS).

• Contributed to over 20 successful projects

• QUASENS: third-party funded project (federal ministry of education and research)
• Setting up a micro-integrated Ramsey-Bordé-based optical atomic clock

• Designed a platform based on IoT, Azure, Kubernetes, and Postgres for an existing application
• Migrated from "click-ops" and UI-defined CI/CD pipelines to infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, enabling complete redeployment of multiple environments
• Technologies: Terraform, OpenTofu, Azure, Azure DevOps, Kafka, IoT, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, GitOps, relational databases