IBM WebSphere Experts in Munich

• Spring Boot Software Engineer
• DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes, Azure DevOps)

Toolstack: Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, ArgoCD, Docker, Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Git, Postgres

• Coordinating several Pega projects being part of CoE
• Participating in major architecture meetings
• Running LSA coordination meetings
• Providing guidance to the project teams
• Helping with technical issues resolution including performance problems
• Contributing to improving developers best practices and guidelines
• Providing expertise in ensuring high system availability
• Running PoCs
• Responsible for deployment pipelines implementation
• Individual targets rated over 100% every year

• Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
• Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
• Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
• Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
• Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
• Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
• Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions

• Implementation of a GitLab CI/CD pipeline based on SAP Commerce Cloud 2211
• Development of a new B2C shop with Vue, Node and TypeScript to ensure scalability, extensibility and performance optimization
• Integration of Microsoft Azure Event Grid with SAP Hybris
• Implementation of BDD with Cucumber using Gherkin syntax to promote collaboration between development and business teams
• Support and customization of a Spartacus shop
• Technologies/Languages: Java, REST, OData, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber, Node, Vue, TypeScript, Spartacus, GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Maven, Ant, SonarQube

• Designed and built from scratch the automation framework using Playwright, Typescript, JavaScript, Gherkin, Cucumber, BDD, Maven, IntelliJ IDEA
• Defined, developed and maintained test plans, test scripts, reports and other QA documentation in Confluence
• Created and maintained test data with SQL Server Management Studio, Toad and Faker.js
• Performed web services and API testing using Swagger Open API, SoapUI, JSON, HTML and XML
• Executed functional, smoke, regression, black box, GUI, cross-browser, UAT and E2E testing using CrossBrowserTesting and Safari Web Inspector
• Integrated and maintained automated scripts within sprints following Kanban, CI/CD, GitHub, Docker, Azure Pipelines, Agile, Scrum, Kafka and Kibana
• Raised and managed defects in Azure DevOps
• Conducted mobile testing with Robot Framework and Appium

• Set up the new digitization strategy.
• Using Camunda as a process engine, a new way of handling batch and dialog tasks is created.
• In close cooperation with the business department, the individual processes are created and put into production.
• Forms for controlling manual interventions, e.g. when adjusting applications, are implemented.
• Gradual migration of old code from IBM WebSphere to JBoss.
• Skills: Arquillian, Camunda, Initiative, Empathy, Hibernate, Jackson, Java/JEE, JBoss, Jersey, JSON, JUnit, Openness to criticism, Willingness to learn, REST, Teamwork, WebServices.

• Act as interface between business, IT demand management and IT architecture, analyzing functional and technical requirements in Salesforce.
• Create requirements and specification documents together with the business unit and develop solution concepts.
• Define, control implementation and acceptance of epics and user stories.
• Advise business units on optimization potentials and develop functional solution concepts.
• Support project management and product owners in scope analysis and ticket creation.
• Develop identity management solutions and deletion concepts in the Salesforce environment.
• Define and implement DWH reports for analysis of business areas and process optimizations.
• Document and optimize functional process workflows.
• Tools and technologies: Miro, Salesforce, Draw.io, Atlassian Stack (Confluence, JIRA), Figma, Enterprise Architect, MS Teams, Slack, Zoom, SCRUM, agile project management.

• The software supports the complete planning and approval of antennas for mobile telephony.

• The system was implemented using an event-driven microservice architecture for cloud-native deployment with Quarkus on the backend, Kafka for communication, and Angular for the frontend. Services run on Kubernetes in Google Cloud. A special challenge was synchronizing with the legacy system still used by some users.

• Further development of personalized advertising spaces on the Otto web shop
• Full-stack development in a Kanban-driven team of about 15 people
• Technologies: Microservices, Kotlin, Spring, Spring Boot, Gradle, MongoDB, HTML, JS, Node, SCSS, AWS
• Development process: Kanban; continuous integration with AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions

• Migration of a mainframe application (PL/1, zOS) to the cloud (Azure)
• Data transfer from z/OS (USS) to Azure storage (blob containers, file shares)
• Implementation of the mainframe job control in Java
• Mapping of job network dependencies in Control-M
• Performance analysis and optimization measures
• DB2 (z/OS) migration to Postgres (Azure)
• Technologies: Azure (storage, VM, VMSS, Postgres), z/OS (USS), DB2, Postgres, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Control-M
• Tools: Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ

• Architecture, design and further development of a hybrid solution consisting of a Java backend with REST API and C# / WPF frontend
• Development of secure, distributed functions for classified message processing, categorization and encryption
• Integration of backend services with document management systems (DMS) for structured file storage
• Planning, setup and continuous optimization of Azure DevOps pipelines for automated deployment and quality assurance of distributed applications in a security-critical environment
• Technical coordination with Bundeswehr project managers and third-party providers of relevant software and interfaces, and documentation of the developed solutions

• Application support for the e-commerce presence of the Netto Online Supermarket chain [link]
• Webshop runs with PIM, ERP and Diva software - Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
• ITIL incident, change and problem management
• Diva components include ERP, CRM, OMS, WMS and POS
• Receiving, handling and, if needed, forwarding user requests
• Error analysis and support with problem solving
• Monitoring/orchestration of the individual systems
• Day-to-day collaboration with external service providers and development team
• User management and second-level support activities
• System logging/maintenance of external interfaces
• Application administration with Jira and Confluence in QA and production environments
• Technology: Windows Server 2008, Linux servers, MS SQL Server