Jira Experts in Dresden

BAFA consulting and project support for the introduction of AI solutions and AI agents.

• Analysis of existing business and customer service processes and identification of automation potential
• Design of AI-supported processes and agents for communication, support, and internal operations
• Gathering and structuring requirements with the company’s contacts
• Planning implementation and coordinating between the client, consulting, and development teams
• Consulting on the integration of AI into existing workflows and systems
• Development of use cases and prioritization based on value and implementation effort
• Support with testing, adjustments, and the rollout of solutions
• Consulting on data protection, process design, and the use of AI within the company

Methods/Technologies: AI agents, on-premises LLM, RAG, prompt engineering, process automation, API integrations, n8n, project management.

• Technical and professional management of software and ML development; largely independent implementation of programming and guidance of the team and external project partners
• Design, creation, and preparation of training and test data sets from experimental image data and simulations
• Selection, implementation, training, validation, and testing of neural networks for image-based reconstruction and transformation
• Systematic evaluation, comparison, and optimization of various model architectures (convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks, autoencoders, transformers)
• Design and implementation of explainable AI analyses for model interpretability and robustness assessment (analysis of feature maps, augmentation studies, guided backpropagation)
• Presentation of the developed methods and results in project meetings and at international conferences

• Further development of framework components and services in the Enterprise Banking Control Platform (EGP Framework), a set of cross-cutting libraries and services for all bounded context scopes of the platform.
• Migration from Java 17 to Java 21 and from Spring Boot 3.2 to 3.4 in about 80 library and service repositories (updating Maven POMs, Dockerfiles, Jenkins pipelines, source code migration, test updates).
• Writing unit and integration tests with JUnit and JGiven.
• Performing and analyzing performance measurements with Dynatrace.
• Enhancing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (unit tests, security analyses, Docker builds, Harbor deployments, ...).
• Tech stack used: Java (90%), Python (10%), Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, JGiven, OpenAPI, Camunda 7, Podman, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Oracle DB, SonarQube, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Harbor, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.

• Skills: ACLs, Android, Ansible, Apache, Backup, Bash, BindFS, Modern C++, CFEngine, ClusterSSH, CSS, CUPS, Debian, DHCP, DNS, dovecot, exim4, Firewall, FUSE, GIMP, Git, gnupg, HTML, IMAP, IPv4, Kerberos, LDAP, LineageOS, Linux, Mercurial, NAT, Networking, NFSv4, OpenPGP, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, OpenVPN, PHP, pxelinux, Python, RAID, Responsive Web Design, Routing, Shorewall, SMTP, SSHFS, SSL/TLS, systemd, TFTP, UPS, VPN, X11, XMPP

• Implemented accessibility audit recommendations for the ICE onboard portal to improve usability for screen reader and keyboard users
• Migrated end-to-end tests from Cypress to Playwright
• Refactored components to meet accessibility standards
• Introduced Prettier for consistent code formatting

• Migration of market communication / schedule management to AS4
• Initial planning of IT tasks in the form of a project plan, consolidating and verifying all tasks and, if needed, setting up project streams including effort estimation, tasks, resource allocation and availability
• Consulting with overall project management on project-related topics
• Aligning streams and tasks with each other, coordinating the above points with all project participants / sub-project managers / coordinators within the project
• IT project management and coordination
• Managing IT service providers (Robotron (eSales) and Arvato (B2B)) and ensuring a high IT quality standard based on SLAs/KPIs and regular reports
• Coordinating with 50Hertz key users, product owners, and process owners, as well as all four German transmission system operators as part of the project
• Cross-departmental, technical and project-oriented consulting, especially with the IT infrastructure, IT network, and IT security teams
• Managing project risks (internal and external) / risk buffers
• Actively communicating with sub-projects to minimize risks or identify bottlenecks regarding resource availability and meeting deadlines / sub-tasks within the project
• Actively mapping new requirements and emerging risks in the project and resource plan and coordinating with the affected sub-projects

• Independent work as a service provider and consultant for mid-sized companies with a B2B focus

• Continuing education in Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Machine Learning
• Operating system: Windows
• Development environments: JetBrains PyCharm, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder
• Programming languages: Python 3.10
• Other technologies: Anaconda, Keras 2.10, NumPy, OpenCV, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Seaborn, TensorFlow 2.10, PyTorch

• Developed an adapter from the central foreigner register to an internal application
• REST, JSON, OpenAPI, Spring Boot, Vue, Java, Maven, XAusländer
• Jira/Confluence/GitHub, Scrum+Kanban

• Java and Groovy development
• Administration of Docker Compose (incl. installation, configuration and maintenance)
• Linux systems like Debian
• Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonarqube, SVN
• Administration of Atlassian products like Bitbucket, Jira, Crucible, Fisheye
• Monitoring tools like Elasticsearch, Prometheus
• Practical experience with DevOps tools like Puppet, Maven
• Scripting in Python, Perl, Shell and Powershell
• Helm chart script development
• End to end new framework development in Python, Groovy including Jenkins and Gitlab CI/CD pipelines
• Gitlab runner CI/CD development
• Openshift Kubernetes administration and development

• Streamlining massive production processes serving millions of patients for Europe’s most valuable company

• Development of backend systems with ASP.NET and MS SQL, plus client integration via AngularJS.
• Responsibility for the architecture and implementation of cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, and Windows with Xamarin native & Xamarin.Forms.
• External Xamarin consultant for business partners.