IntelliJ IDEA Experts in Berlin

• Led development of 15+ microservices (Java 17, Spring Boot) driving customer interactions; migrated from on-prem to GCP Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing infra cost by 20%.
• Optimized user services with CouchDB caching and API refactoring, cutting response times by 35% and enhancing customer experience.
• Implemented canary deployments, FluxCD GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations in GitLab, reducing release lead time by 25% and enabling zero-downtime rollouts.
• Set up Grafana health checks and Anodot alerts for latency, error, and throughput monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40%.
• Built secure APIs using OAuth2, DPoP, and Gatekeeper, integrated REST and GraphQL, and achieved 90%+ test coverage with unit and E2E tests.
• Mentored junior developers, promoted Agile best practices, and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver high-impact, reliable customer-facing features.

• IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration

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.

• IT consulting, coaching, and implementation with a focus on AI

• Implemented Service Tickets functionality for the HOLAWAL Partner Portal, taking full ownership of the epic from architectural design to delivery
• Conducted stakeholder meetings, defined solution approach, and developed a reusable dynamic LWC component that enables configurable flow creation through JavaScript file settings
• Implemented the IP-VPN workflow as a new business product and managed its end-to-end delivery using Salesforce Communication Cloud
• Designed and developed a customer-facing quoting mechanism enabling external customers to view and accept quotes seamlessly
• Localized and enhanced the customer portal by implementing Dutch translations, improving usability and engagement for a major Dutch client
• Designed a quote request submission flow for the customer portal using Balsamiq wireframing tool, ensuring all required details were captured upfront
• Developed an order form flow using Lightning Web Components to capture products, linked services, and service locations
• Configured Salesforce Industries CPQ by modifying existing products, adding new attributes, and implementing validations to enhance product customization and accuracy
• Implemented Apex mocking using the FFLIB library to build efficient, maintainable, and high-coverage test classes

• Provide the Price Listing Service team with prices for all cars and vans in different markets
• Adapt market-specific requirements such as taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
• Import and synchronize new prices for all new and existing cars and store them in the Redis datastore
• Support our product and on-call duty
• Daily business, development of new features, bug fixing
• Pair programming, code review, mob programming
• Develop POCs for new ideas
• Maintain and extend the backend
• DevOps tasks
• Run Kubernetes updates
• Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
• Develop and adapt Helm charts
• Adapt and update ArgoCD
• Maintain, adapt, and improve CI/CD

• Planning and implementing tailored Odoo ERP solutions to support and optimize specific business processes
• Configuring and customizing Odoo modules according to individual customer requirements, including process automation and data integration
• Training and supporting end users and administrators to ensure full use of Odoo features and to enhance user skills
• Providing ongoing post-implementation support, including troubleshooting, maintenance and updates to adapt to new business requirements
• Migrating data and integrating external applications into Odoo environments for a seamless, unified data landscape
• Analyzing and improving existing Odoo systems to boost efficiency and optimize the user experience

• Maintenance, further development, modernization and testing of the OK.VERKEHR specialist application, a monolithic Enterprise Java solution (with approx. 3,5 Mio LOC) for vehicle registration and driving license authorities
• Design, development, testing and maintenance of end-to-end workflows (dialogs, backend services and persistence layer, test suite) for new driving license applications, changes/extensions to driving licenses, management of parking permits and truck driver cards
• Development and maintenance of web services for communication between local traffic authorities and the Federal Motor Transport Authority, FAER register, TÜV testing centers and driving schools
• Performance optimization and targeted refactoring for the future migration to a cloud architecture and the addition of a new web client (Vaadin)
• 3rd-level support for customers during ongoing operations

• Leading, designing, and developing the UX and UI strategy and implementing it for the platform
• Creating style guides and design systems in Figma
• Creating a generic end-to-end layout structure for big data cockpits in Figma and Sass (CSS, design tokens)
• Workflows, wireframes, user research, and rapid prototyping
• Preparing and facilitating workshops and discoveries
• Integrating designs and layouts into existing frontend templates
• Prototyping (low-/mid-/high-fidelity) of various apps for journalists and publishers
• Developing showcases for iOS and Android, design thinking, qualitative and quantitative user testing, and A/B testing
• Frontend development in close collaboration with design teams
• Active change management in the publishing and journalism sector and with stakeholders
• Company-wide communication and info hub for teams
• Raising awareness and getting buy-in for digitalization and new products
• Creating concepts and designs for gamification elements on the platform
• Convincing major industry players (e.g., WAN-IFRA) about new concepts and revenue streams
• Developing new cloud-native apps and revenue strategies
• Preparing and creating various materials for change processes
• Creating presentations, mini-apps, and info materials to support change campaigns
• Leading a total of three teams

• Developed ASR and TSR-based speech processing pipelines on AWS, enabling efficient feature extraction and scalable deployment for speech and text analytics.
• Built a Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition system combining NLP and deep learning (audio + text), achieving 98% accuracy and supporting real-time, cloud-based inference.
• Designed and optimized end-to-end model training and evaluation workflows using AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda) to ensure performance, reliability, and reproducibility.
• Created and deployed interactive, user-friendly dashboards for data visualization and insight generation, supporting research teams and management in data-driven decision-making.

• Development and deployment of AI/ML models to support research, production, and QC processes in GxP-regulated life science environments
• Building scalable MLOps infrastructures for the production use of AI solutions in regulated areas, including cloud architectures and data pipelines
• Regulatory compliance and validation according to GAMP 5, EU AI Act, and data integrity requirements, including audit trail-compliant documentation
• Interdisciplinary project management in AI and digitalization projects: coordinating stakeholders, budget responsibility, client communication
• Data engineering and integration: analyzing diverse production data, ensuring data quality, and integration into validated systems

• 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%.

• Developing an app that reflects the stock portfolio
• Environment: Laravel 12, PHP 8.4, MySQL, Git, IntelliJ, GitHub, AlpineJs, TailwindCss