Jenkins Experts in Frankfurt

Participation in the EU-funded MORANE-2 project to validate the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) in real-life use cases: creation of the requirement specifications for TOBA as well as the associated test specifications.

Technologies: 5GS (Radio & Core), FRMCS, MCx (MCPTT, MCData, MCVideo), MC Gateway UE, MCx Priority/Security/QoS Management, ETCS, SIP, IMS

• Led discovery phase and POC for Shopware to Shopify Plus migration across EMEA markets, evaluating platform suitability, technical architecture, and multi-brand/multi-country capabilities against business requirements.
• Designed reference architecture for Shopify Plus implementation incorporating headless front-end patterns (Vue.js, Nuxt.js), CMS integration (Magnolia), and Azure middleware (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus) for 11 EMEA markets.
• Defined migration strategy analyzing data mapping, cutover approach, and zero-downtime deployment patterns using Varnish caching, GitOps pipelines, and CI/CD orchestration across six vendor teams.
• Architected multi-tenant Shopify Plus governance model with centralized admin, localized storefront customization, and compliance controls (GDPR, data residency).
• Prototyped AI-driven search optimization (LLM.txt, JSON-LD) for product discoverability in Google AI results, demonstrating post-launch performance opportunities.
• Defined EMEA expansion roadmap for 15+ markets through C-level strategic workshops, identifying phased rollout, market-specific configurations, and resource requirements.
• Tech Stack: React, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Magnolia CMS, Shopware, Shopify Plus, Azure (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Front Door), Varnish, SAP, MS Dynamics, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Kafka

• Porsche ID is a unified digital identity platform providing secure authentication and seamless access across Porsche’s online services, mobile apps, and connected vehicle features
• Designed and implemented new authentication and authorization functionalities for both users and systems
• Ensured high availability, security, and performance to deliver a flawless digital experience for Porsche customers
• Technologies: Auth0, Angular, Tailwind, AWS, Terraform, Github
• Methodologies: Scrum and SAFe

Project: SCS (Settlement / Clearing Services)

Settlement platform serving multiple trading and clearing venues — counterparty risk safeguarding, settlement volume reduction, central risk management, and post-trade anonymity.

Technologies: Java 17, Spring Boot 3, Microservices, Spring Data JPA, SonarQube, Fortify (SCST), Mockito, Jenkins, OpenShift, Maven, Podman, GitHub, JIRA, Liquibase, Swagger, AMQP, Apache Camel, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Instana, Graylog.

• Identified and remediated CVEs in third-party libraries using SCA tooling, strengthening the security posture of production components.
• Maintained 90% code coverage with SonarQube, improving code quality and reducing production defects.
• Built and customized Helm charts and values.yaml configurations across 3 environments (ACT, SIMU, PROD), increasing deployment flexibility and consistency.
• Enabled mTLS for database authentication and message broker connections, enforcing encrypted, certificate-validated communication.
• Designed and deployed microservices with asynchronous, REST-based communication between components.
• Automated build and continuous integration pipelines using Maven and Jenkins.
• Used Podman and OpenShift for container orchestration and Liquibase for database version control.
• Optimized Java code and implemented EHCache-based caching, improving application performance.
• Managed application images, JAR versions, and dependencies via DBAG Artifactory Repository Manager.

• Implementation of specified DevOps solutions to automate infrastructure (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible) on-premises datacenter (Ovirt, Proxmox, Ceph Cluster, MinIO) and private cloud.
• Administration, configuration and implementation of CI/CD DevOps pipelines (GitLab, GitFlow) to support development process (Artifactory, Prometheus, Istio, service mesh, Helm Chart, OpenShift (Red Hat Enterprise) / Kubernetes cluster), Red Hat Satellite.
• Administration, setup, monitoring and patching of Linux infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise for Dev, Test and QA.
• Use of Scrum and Kanban methods.
• Administration, configuration and implementation of security standards for deploying on Dev, Test, QA and Prod stages of the new ePA applications.
• Development of new plugins and add-ons needed on current infrastructure.
• Database support.
• Data analytics support (Python, Spark, Pandas, Power BI, Splunk Enterprise).
• Implementation of best practices for DevSecOps and BizDevOps using GitOps (ArgoCD), Streamlit framework, Semaphore Ansible UI.
• Configuration and testing of iperf, uperf, sysbench using benchmark-operator for external source data and IoT/MDM devices, creating reports via ELK / OpenSearch.
• Building a new Databricks platform to collect and analyze big data from different sources and IoT devices into Hadoop framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Power BI, Apache Airflow).
• Building backend data aggregation and processing to automate configuration deployment between different OpenShift clusters and big data framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, Django 2, Ansible Automation, Jira JSM).
• Building a new ML pipeline platform using Kubeflow, TensorFlow, KServe.
• Data extraction, transformation and loading from different data sources including structured and unstructured data to analytic DWH / big data cluster using Python, Pandas, Polars, Power BI, Django backend and PostgreSQL.
• Setup of new DevOps Test and QA HashiCorp Vault cluster for PKI and IAM.
• Configuration and testing of automated patching based on CVSS score, SIEM-integrated CVEs.
• Use of Nexpose and InsightVM to scan vulnerability events in network, host, container and application.
• Design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS architectures including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS and Route53 and similar setups on Azure and GCP.
• Automated system provisioning and deployment using CloudFormation templates.
• Configuration of IAM roles, policies and permissions to ensure secure access control.
• Patch management, backup automation and disaster recovery setup on AWS infrastructure.
• Monitoring and optimization of system performance using AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
• Support of VMware services (vSphere, Aria, Horizon) and the virtual desktop environment.
• Development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and AWS CodePipeline with interface to Nutanix.
• Configuration of AWS CloudWatch to monitor application performance and system events.
• Planning and execution of migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud platforms.
• Deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments.
• Deployment of internal software packages between availability zones using AWS CodeDeploy.
• Building and deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Spark MLlib including hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation and production deployment.

• Hands-on solution architect
• Digital product development - SaaS
• Strategic consulting on software architecture, cloud migration, and DevOps processes
• Coaching SE developers and IT architects

• Co-founded the Real-Time Data team, which grew to 10 members over time.
• Developed and delivered core data products.
• Optimized real-time application performance and implemented monitoring, alerting and logging solutions to ensure system stability.
• Created and maintained deployment pipelines.
• Collaborated with teammates, architects and experts in an agile Scrum environment.
• Operated applications, analyzed, tested and troubleshot software solutions.

• Provided consulting for modernizing legacy applications
• Delivered critical features under tight deadlines for backend and frontend
• Technologies: C#, .NET, WPF, WCF, REST, Angular, MS SQL Server

• Main developer in an online retail company
• Built an online shop using the Next.JS React framework
• Integrated the site with dozens of third-party apps using REST and GraphQL APIs
• Built a backend for order management, warehouse management (with iPhone app), and supply management
• Automated invoicing and finances with QuickBooks

• Datastage 11.7, dbt, Oracle 19, Python 3.12 / PySpark 3.5, Azure GitHub, Azure DevOps, Automic
• Development of migration jobs to transfer data from the collection DWH to the new Risk Mart, as well as development of ETL pipelines to migrate historical data from the old Mart to the new Risk Mart.
• Storage of the silver layer on Hadoop and the gold layer in Oracle.
• Translation of DataStage jobs into dbt to publish reporting data in Google Cloud to a PostgreSQL database.
• Creation and optimization of complex SQL queries for data extraction from a data vault, taking into account historical data in the point-in-time tables.
• Creation of Oracle table definitions (DDL) and adjustment of existing stored procedures.
• Versioning changes in GitHub and deployment via the CI/CD portal.
• Refactoring long-running DataStage jobs into Python using PySpark to reduce server load.
• Migration of SAS scripts to PL/SQL, including new development of distribution functions that have no direct equivalent in Oracle.
• Development of Automic jobs to run DataStage pipelines and Python scripts (PySpark jobs) that control the population of the SME and institutional risk tables in the Risk Mart and perform business calculations.
• Participation in the agile process, including creating user stories, estimations, and planning in Azure DevOps.
• Handling Azure DevOps tickets and close collaboration with testers and business teams for error analysis and resolution.

• Database design with Oracle DB, JPA and Flyway considering high performance requirements
• Analysis of multiple architecture drafts and identification of technical risks
• Design and implementation of various interfaces and integrations, especially REST APIs and Kafka topics
• Setup of Elasticsearch for monitoring and analyzing log data
• Establishment of an iterative work approach in the project team facing complex business requirements

• Testing the SekIDP and related components
• Test design, execution and automation, microservices, GitHub Enterprise, Eclipse, Katalon Test Platform, API Testing, Confluence 8, JIRA/Xray, Draw.io, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, PuTTY, E-Health, Telematik, Gematik standards, EPA, E-Rezept, sektoraler IDP, encryption, XaDES, PaDES, DICOM, HL7, FHIR, IHE, ICD, SSO, SAML/Shibboleth, OAuth, smartcards, JWT, two factor authentication Android and iOS, Wireshark, BrowserStack, Cypress, gRPC, REST, SOAP, WS-Security, Linux Shell, PowerShell, SSH/SSL, Java, Kotlin, Cordova, Gradle, Groovy, Python, TypeScript

• Requirements analysis for the enterprise-wide observability platform.
• Creation of playbooks and pipelines for rolling out Envoy, OpenTelemetry Collectors, and OpenTelemetry Agents.
• Conducting load tests for capacity planning of metrics for the observability platform.
• Documentation and implementation of compliance standards for production readiness.
• Creation and design of RED metrics, spanmetrics, JBoss, and Tomcat dashboards for mission-critical applications.
• Setting up alerts for critical applications for proactive incident response.
• Integration of OpenShift applications into the enterprise-wide observability stack.

• Linux server migrations: planning and execution of the migration with SLES Linux deployment of VMs in VMware 8.0
• Guiding colleagues on configuring Linux VMs with vSphere Auto Deploy
• Application operations: ensuring smooth operation of applications on migrated servers
• Operations manuals: revising existing manuals, updating and creating new ones as needed
• Reviewing service offers: adjusting and optimizing service offerings of external providers
• Logistics software, Red Hat Linux, Ansible, Confluence / Jira