Jakarta Server Pages (JSP) Experts in Germany

• Further development of the existing e-commerce platform based on SAP Commerce (Hybris) to meet the growing demands of digital commerce.
• Ensuring the scalability and performance of the backend, so the platform remained stable and efficient even under heavy user load.
• Development and integration of new OCC REST APIs and services for modular extensions and flexible adjustments, to implement new features quickly.
• Optimization of data flows and interfaces, which significantly improved platform efficiency and system performance.
• Ensuring a maintainable and scalable code base by using Clean Code principles, proven design patterns, and a future-proof architecture.
• Reduction of errors through extensive testing with JUnit, Mockito, and load tests with Gatling, supported by the introduction of automated test processes.
• Improved system performance through targeted refactoring measures and efficient database queries, especially to handle peak loads.
• Use of modern cloud and monitoring tools such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Grafana to ensure a stable and monitored infrastructure.
• Clear improvement in efficiency, scalability, and reliability of the platform, which now meets the demands of a dynamic and growing e-commerce market.

Task:

• Design and build a proof of concept (PoC) for a future-proof virtualization platform, taking secure system architectures into account
• Assess the current state of existing infrastructures and develop selection and evaluation criteria for the right OS virtualization platform
• Carry out the requirements analysis and then create and prioritize tickets in the ticket system
• Complete and continuously update a tool evaluation matrix based on PoC results
• Support team knowledge building through clear documentation of the approach and results in Confluence
• Enterprise analysis of existing hardware (creating different BoMs)

Technologies: Vmware, Vmware Aria Operations, Osism, Canonical OpenStack, FishOs, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, Confluence, Alma

• 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.

• Further development and operation of a central backend service for providing vehicle inventory for international Mercedes-Benz online shops
• Further development of a reservation service for vehicles as part of the checkout process
• Design and implementation of a highly scalable end-to-end test architecture with a focus on maintainability, reusability, and a high number of automated test cases
• Development of a multi-layer test infrastructure with a strict separation of test logic and access layers
• Development of an initialization and caching architecture to significantly speed up local and CI/CD-based test runs
• Development of an AI-supported review architecture for automated evaluation and quality assurance of end-to-end tests
• Development of a dashboard for consolidated display of a vehicle context across multiple backend systems, including AI-generated summaries and compact case analyses
• Integration and further development of connections to various reservation systems via Apache Kafka and REST
• Design of new microservices and support with architecture decisions
• Risk analysis and design of microservice migrations
• Technologies: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Gradle, Maven, Apache Kafka, REST, OpenAPI, Swagger, Github, Confluence, CI/CD, Microservices, AI, LLMs

• Developing the infrastructure and improving existing infrastructure: Jenkins, Gitlab Pipeline, OpenShift, Docker, Helm Chart, Kubernetes, Artifactory, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact, Python
• Documenting solutions in Jira/Confluence
• Supporting other colleagues in different technical areas

• New development and further development of frontend interfaces for investors, using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, React, Material UI, and JSTL

• The goal of BIENE is to provide a uniform program for tax collection for all states.

• In tax collection, the aim is to collect the assessed taxes. This includes handling due dates, documenting incoming and outgoing payments, triggering reminders or refunds. Statute of limitations and payment reminders also play an important role. All payment transactions with banks and accounting are mapped in BIENE.

• Setting up the architecture and coordinating the provisioning of development and test environments at the Hanover location

• Installing and configuring environments on Linux servers (Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL)

• Interface tasks: coordinating and aligning the integration of software products from other departments and their test data

• Upgrading application server, JDK, Maven project structure

• Environment coordination and build management

• Implementing external interfaces

• Implementing business requirements

• Designing and implementing RESTful APIs and OpenAPI specifications

• Designing and implementing microservice architecture

• Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Deploying applications on OpenShift

• Creating technical documentation and diagrams

• Working with SQL databases (Oracle and PostgreSQL)

• Setting up authentication and authorization for the application and users

• Containerizing the application (automated deployment via CI/CD pipeline)

• Designing new apps as well as enhancing and running 29 Angular apps for digital claims in an Nx monorepo
• Maintaining and improving a shared component library with ~300 libraries for multiple product teams
• Migrating all apps to a new design system including its component library and systematic refactoring
• Developing and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Terraform, AWS)
• Managing releases independently including branch handling, versioning, PR coordination and production deployment
• Implementing and maintaining tracking (Adobe Analytics)
• Ensuring accessibility according to BFSG/WCAG
• Test-driven development (TDD) with Jest and Cypress
• Code reviews, mentoring and setting up best practices in the team
• Technologies: TypeScript, Angular 16-20, RxJS, NgRx, Nx (Monorepo), npm, HTML, (S)CSS, Storybook, Jest, Cypress, Cucumber, Husky, Node.js, Git, AWS, Azure DevOps (Repos & Pipelines), Jenkins, Terraform, TDD, BFSG, WCAG, Nexus, IntelliJ, Adobe Analytics

• Senior Frontend Angular and Frontend
• Integrating Camunda processes into the frontend
• Development supported by ChatGPT (Codex) and Claude (skills etc.)

Knowledge: Angular, Camunda

Products used: Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Camunda

• Creation of automated tests.
• Extension of the functionality of the enterprise BI data warehouse.
• Design and development in SQL and PL/SQL.
• Data modeling as well as performance measurement and tuning.
• Creation of and contribution to user stories and concepts.
• Technical environment: Windows, Linux.
• Database: Oracle 19c incl. DWH, CDB, PDB.
• Tools: Confluence, CVS, Eclipse, Git, GitLab, Jira, N4, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, utPLSQL.

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

• Selection and evaluation of different frontend frameworks for a headless CMS

• Consulting the UI/UX team on the design system

• Technologies:

• Figma

• Design Token

• Tailwind

• Storybook

• React

• NextJs

• Strapi

• AJAX

• Confluence

• CSS3

• Docker

• Eslint

• Git

• GraphQL

• HTML5

• IntelliJ/WebStorm

• JAM Stack

• Jasmine

• Jenkins

• Jira

• JSON

• JSX

• Mocha

• Native JavaScript (ES6)

• NodeJS

• Prettier

• REST

• REST APIs

• SCSS

• SSR

• StyleGuides

• SVG

• TypeScript

• Webpack

• Set up an operational contract information system. This is mainly used as an order management system - for migrating existing contracts as well as for creating and providing new contract bundles.

• Sales agents can use it to order new services, modify existing ones and migrate service types, as well as provide price information to the customer.

• This supports the marketing of new services as well as the replacement of old services for existing customers.

• In addition, existing data is imported, processed (ETL) and provided via services for further use in the portal front end.

• Analysis of the business and technical use cases (workflows, involved processes/systems, communication paths, security requirements)

• Further development / creation of the front-end components (React/JavaScript)

• Design and implementation of the business logic

• Creation of the functional and technical component documentation

• Test execution / test automation (Cypress, test coverage)

• Team size: 8 people

• Technologies: React, JavaScript, Rest (JSon), Yaml, Markdown, MariaDB (SQL), Docker, Swagger, Cypress

• Tools: Webstorm, ReactDeveloperTools, VisualStudioCode, Word, DBeaver, Git/GitLab

• Work management: GitLab

• Platform: Linux

• Build management: GitLab

• 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