Kubernetes Experts in Nuremberg

• Software development
• Technical design of software architecture and design (considering functional and non-functional requirements)
• Frontend and Backend
• Refactorings
• Code reviews
• Unit tests
• Automated integration tests
• E2E tests

Global Identity Services (GIS) is the identity provider for the Digital Services Platform (DSP). GIS is responsible for authenticating and authorizing end users and other DSP services by issuing security tokens. This includes:

• Identity management (e.g., user registration, password reset and change, user profiles)
• Management of roles and permissions
• Single Sign-On (SSO) across DSP services
• Management of OAuth resources and terms and conditions

• Integrated complex AI-based energy system models into the frontend framework, enabling the visualization of insights for 6+ key clients and maximizing energy utilization.
• Maximized energy efficiency and utilization by architecting the seamless data flow between AI models and the user interface for rapid, actionable reporting.

• Pioneer work in personalized AI: development of a framework for “Interactive Content” (RAG) for novels, lectures, expert debriefing
• Successful launch of Einbug, the Pantopia chatbot, with media resonance (SZ interview)
• Creation of compelling AI personalities: AI blog ([link]), 100% personalized learning environments, Perry Rhodan, and others.

• Development of a new innovative payment product for the European market with the aim of establishing an alternative to the existing global players.
• Set-up and scaling of the software development processes and teams.
• Architect and implementation of the business processes in an event sourcing microservice architecture.
• Implementation on a prototype in the context of the Digital Euro.
• Technologies: Ktor (Kotlin), AWS Managed Kubernetes with Fargate, MongoDB, React, ElasticSearch, KoTest, Gradle, Agile Development, Pair Programming, GitHub Actions, Gradle, SonarQube

• Designed and operated a GitOps-based Kubernetes platform, migrating services from AWS ECS to Amazon EKS.
• Built automated CI/CD pipelines for container build and deployment using GitLab CI, Helm, and Argo CD.
• Developed reusable Helm charts for Kubernetes resources (Ingress, Services, Secrets, HPA, ExternalDNS).
• Provisioned and managed EKS (Fargate and EC2) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu).
• Implemented OIDC-based authentication and authorization (Okta) for secure access to Kubernetes and Argo CD.
• Improved container security by migrating services to distroless images.
• Implemented logging, monitoring, and observability to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Automated cloud cost optimisation using Python (Boto3), achieving approximately 45% cost savings.
• Led migration of AWS infrastructure to IaC, reducing configuration drift and deployment issues.
• Produced technical documentation and operational runbooks, supporting internal engineering teams.

• Web application for contract changes

• Micro frontend development from scratch through production with a Reactive Forms basis, Responsive Web Design, validation, multilingual support, accessibility, unit tests and component tests

• Technologies: Angular 19-20, Nx, Angular CLI, Native Federation, TypeScript, HTML, SASS, Tailwind CSS, Angular Material, Reactive Forms, RxJS, Signals, PDF-Make, ng-openapi-gen, i18n, JSON Server, REST, JWT, Jest, Playwright, IntelliJ, Git, CI/CD with GitLab, Cloud Foundry, Nginx; Scrum

• Focused on exploring the intersection of Music and AI.

• Analyzed 50K+ customer records using SQL and Python in a cloud services firm, identifying trends
• Designed interactive Tableau dashboards for sales and marketing stakeholders, reducing report
• Developed ARIMA and AutoARIMA time series models to forecast AWS resource utilization, cutting
• Automated ETL pipelines with Python, improving workflow efficiency by 20% for scalable data
• Collaborated with DevOps teams to deploy 3 machine learning models in production using Docker

• Tribe Home, Product Area 4 - Customer in Life, Squad Cybertron.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of new requirements for Optimmo, mortgage financing software.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the JEE application MWS kredit-baufi.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the Wicket Optimmo application.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of kredit-baufi batch programs.
• Migration of kredit-baufi batches to RHEL9.
• CiL SCS consumer pacts with Finagle.
• CiL SCS touch point architecture integration.
• Team size: 10.
• Tools / Frameworks: OpenJDK Java 17, Kotlin 1.6.0, Azure, Jenkins, Stash, JEE, GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, git, Spring 6.0, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Hibernate, JPA, JMS, Kafka, Oracle, PL/SQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Maven, REST, JBoss, IntelliJ IDEA, Wicket 9 and 10, Istio.

• Designed 3 architectures to determine the most cost-effective solution regarding customer requirements
• Created the production and test environments from scratch
• Tech Stack: AWS (Serverless, CI/CD), GitHub