Eclipse IDE Experts in Hamburg

Migration from Exchange 2016 to Exchange 2019 and Exchange Online, as well as the introduction of a backup solution and an archiving solution. The goal was to securely modernize the email and archiving infrastructure in compliance with legal requirements and ensure high performance.

Responsibilities as IT PROJECT MANAGER: Overall project management and operational coordination / Ensuring compliance with budget and resource limits / Ensuring project objectives are met / Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and policies, including ISMS, ITIL, and data protection requirements / Preparing and presenting management reports for the project sponsor and steering committee / Coordinating cross-functional teams across Exchange, network, data protection, and IT security / Planning and carrying out the migration from Exchange 2016 to Exchange 2019 / Planning and carrying out the migration from Exchange 2019 to Exchange Online / Planning and introducing a backup solution for Exchange Online / Coordinating an EU-wide tender for an archiving solution, including market research with potential suppliers / Planning and introducing an archiving solution for Exchange Online / Coordinating and preparing the BAS notices required for the project / Coordinating and aligning with stakeholders (for example, business units, external service providers, and suppliers) to define requirements and deliver solutions

Technical environment: MS Exchange 2016, MS Exchange 2019, MS Exchange Online, MSOffice, MS Planner, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, MS Teams, CodeTwo, Hornet Security

• Developing a professional appointment planner for organizations with specific, detailed requirements
• Evaluating various existing software solutions
• Creating a list of technical requirements
• Implementing these requirements
• Technologies under consideration: WebDAV, CalDAV, Rust, Baikal, OAuth, Keycloak

• Introduced test management with SolMan
• Implemented test automation with TOSCA
• Analyzed, created, and automated test cases
• Built regression test portfolio
• Stakeholder meetings and alignments
• Financial management

• Several projects in a police context
• Model and document police procedures/projects with Archimate (as-is/to-be) in the context of P20 (BKA)
• Create software architectures with microservices
• POC development with Springboot/Docker/Kubernetes
• Project size: 10 people
• Enterprise architecture management with Togaf and Archimate
• Backend software development Springboot
• DevOps with Kubernetes
• Implemented using: Java 17/21, Springboot 3, P20 architecture, Togaf, Archimate

• Data-analysis, Preparation, gathering and coordination of business requirements for retrieval of monthly- and long term (CLV – relevant) cost- and revenue-components per contract for a customer–base–grouping project (HUB–Project) for B2C-Postpaid-Controlling
• Concept and Implementation of cost- and revenue-KPIs calculation and corresponding CLV–reports (Oracle, Perl, SVN, MS SQL Server, MS Power BI, Serviceware Performance Analytics)
• Operational support of the HUB-Project – various ad-hoc reports, deployments, job-scheduling etc. (Oracle, SVN, BICSuite–Scheduler, DWSODA etc.)
• Analysis, implementation, retrieval and reporting of various physical and financial KPIs for B2P-Prepaid Business on an existing data-mart (Oracle, Perl)

• Further development of the compliance products
• Responsible for the Senior Software Engineer role
• Team size: 5 - 15 people
• Tools: TypeScript, Angular 18, Node.js, Nest.js, AWS, Kubernetes/Helm Charts/Docker, GitLab (CD/CI), Elasticsearch, MySQL, OpenAI, Java, RabbitMQ

• Reviewing functional and technical requirements from a testing perspective
• Creating test cases and automated tests to validate requirements
• Performing manual and automated functional, end-to-end, and regression tests
• Documenting test results and tracking defects
• Using models like GPT-4, BERT, and Hugging Face Transformers for automated test case generation, analysis of test results, and improving test coverage, including bias checks and security reviews
• Techs: MS Office, Jira, Zephyr, Confluence, Tosca, stakeholder communication, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, OpenAI API, Hugging Face, PyTorch, LangChain.

• Pilot testing local AI environments to explore local AI use cases and cloud-based AI solutions
• Evaluation of AI tools and techniques
• Use of local AI tools with own data sovereignty
• Prompt engineering
• Creation of example environments for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video

Tools: Grok, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Elevenlabs, Github, Ollama, HuggingFace, Open WebUI, Faster Whisper, LibreTranslate, WSL, Docker Desktop, Shotcut, Audacity, Sound eXchange, Ffmpeg, Coqui TTS, Pinokio, Stable Diffusion Web UI, ComfyUI, OWL, Void Editor

• Creation of a platform where schools can run competitions to collect e-waste or old textiles
• Development of a shared PHP backend for administration by the client
• Connection of two separate WordPress sites via REST API
• Development of a custom WordPress theme with an extensive login area for students
• Setup of normally editable content pages using Elementor

• Integration of SAP Commerce Cloud with SAP Cloud for Customer
• Creation and execution of unit and integration tests
• Error analysis and bug fixing

• Working with developers, security, and operations teams to align requirements
• Supporting product owners and development teams in using logging and monitoring solutions based on the Elastic Stack
• Developing and standardizing log schemas as well as defining practical standards for observability
• Designing and further developing logging architectures for complex, distributed multi-tenant environments
• Connecting application and infrastructure logs as well as security tools and metrics
• Optimizing data flows and modeling for analysis and reporting purposes
• Building automated infrastructures using Terraform/Terragrunt and Ansible
• Maintaining and further developing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab as well as automated development environments in Hetzner Robot
• Operating and automating Proxmox clusters including Ceph storage
• Setting up and operating Kubernetes (k3s) clusters on Fedora CoreOS including base services such as Vault, OpenLDAP, and HA Proxy
• Implementing security-critical infrastructures according to BSI baseline protection and securing existing systems
• Supporting the operation of solutions in cloud environments (including AWS)
• Working in agile teams using Scrum and Kanban
• Technologies/ applications: Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats/Elastic Agent, Kibana), Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, Proxmox, Proxmox Ceph, Kubernetes (k3s), OpenShift, Helm, Kustomize, Vault, OpenLDAP, HA Proxy, Hetzner Robot systems, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Syslog Linux/Windows, Docker, NGINX, Apache Security & Compliance (BSI baseline protection, SIEM/SOC)

• Further development of a finance layer for subscription and one-time purchase billing and accounting.
• Technologies: Kotlin, AWS (SQS, S3, ElastiCache, Aurora), React, TypeScript, Coroutines, IntelliJ IDEA, Spring (Boot, Data, WebFlux), JUnit, Testcontainers, Cucumber, Liquibase, PostgreSQL, Webservices (REST), R2DBC, OpenAPI 3, Gradle, GIT, Docker, Netty, GitHub Actions, Jira/Confluence, arc42

• Coaching junior developers
• Further development and customer-specific extensions of a standard software product (microservices (DDD) and partly monolith)
• Interface extensions
• Web services
• Test automation
• Design
• Technologies used: Java8, Java17, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, Spring (Integration, Data, Boot), JPA, AWS (Cloud, Lambda, EC2, SQS/SNS), Microservices, Fitnesse/Cucumber, Gitlab

• Gained familiarity with complex legacy software for controlling central ship systems (Ada, Java, C++).
• Implemented tests to identify memory leaks.
• Refactored existing project content and tests to object-oriented standards.
• Identified and fixed bugs in existing distributed Java and C++ applications on a DONAR/CORBA network.
• Products: Squish, NetBeans, MKS Integrity, DONAR, CORBA, DOORS, Windchill.
• Skills: Python, Java, Linux, C++, Ada.