Spring WebFlux Experts in Germany

IT consulting, analysis, architecture design, new and further development, code review, test automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery in backend and frontend areas for Automotive Project Instavalo.

Frontend:

• Implementation of UI components according to specifications, especially style guides and responsive design eith React and Typescript
• Component testing
• Code documentation
• CI/CD with Gitlab Pipeline

Backend / IoT:

• Analysis and architectural design with AWS Greengrass IoT on Edge Devices
• Setting up Microservices containers with Docker Compose on Edge device with AWS Greengrass and AWS IoT IAM, Token Exchange Service, Ansible
• CI/CD with Gitlab Pipeline, Terraform, AWS ECR
• Logging with Fluentbit Lua Language for AWS Cloudwatch
• Python Lambda for AWS Greengrass Recipe deployment on Edge Devices
• Implementation of test-driven development with JUnit, Mockito, and code Coverage
• Jacoco
• Definition of REST interfaces with OpenAPI / Swagger
• Development and enhancement of software based on Java Quarkus, Typescript NestJs NodeJs and Python
• Authentication and authorization in Aws IAM
• Development of REST and gRPC interfaces for the frontend and backend
• Implementation of Maven dependencies with DevSecOps OWASP
• Spring AI, Jetbrains AI Assistant, Junie, Github Copilot, Claude Code, Agents, Skills, Command, Hooks, Subagents

• Managed end-to-end product development, overseeing the successful delivery of technical solutions.
• Led and mentored a team of highly specialised technical professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Oversaw the hiring process to build a talented and dedicated team.
• Built a scalable and robust backend microservices system from scratch, designing and extending it to meet evolving business needs.
• Ensured the system's high availability with a 99.99% up time, implementing resilient architecture and monitoring mechanisms.
• Developed and implemented technical strategies, aligning them with business goals and objectives.

Project: Tax Exemption Order Application

The client has an existing application for creating and maintaining tax exemption orders for end customers; design and implementation of a comparable application for internal employees.

• Design and implementation of microservices and the UI for the business area "tax exemption orders" using Domain Driven Design as well as Spring Boot and Angular.
• Implementation of reactive, non-reactive, and asynchronous APIs (Spring REST, WebFlux, GraphQL).
• Development of the Angular application, including state management using Signals, RxJS Observables, and subscriptions.
• Securing the API and the application using OAuth2, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
• Configuration and setup of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams and conducting code reviews.

Environment: Java, Spring Boot, Angular 18 & 19 (standalone, signals), RxJs, Bootstrap CSS, Vitesting, OpenShift, Istio, microservices, Kafka, Dynatrace, Jenkins, GitLab, Graylog, Sonar, Oauth2, OracleDB

• Analysis
• Consulting
• Software design
• Development
• Automation
• Testing
• Deployment
• Architecture, development and deployment of various proof-of-concept applications around the integration of current AI interfaces including conversational, realtime voice, images and videos
• Developed best practices for working with agentic systems and AI in practice
• Created code templates

• Developed backend features for Modern RIS, a web-based Radiology Information System integrated with the existing Classic RIS via WebView.
• Worked on a modular Spring Boot backend covering clinical workflows such as appointments, examinations, patients, orders, reporting, billing, and inventory.
• Contributed to event-driven architecture using domain events to decouple workflows across backend modules.
• Implemented REST/OpenAPI endpoints, service-layer business logic, DTO mapping, validation, and integration points for the React frontend.
• Worked with PostgreSQL-backed domain models, Liquibase database changes, read/write model separation, and legacy RIS database structures.
• Integrated authentication and authorization flows using Keycloak and OAuth2.
• Added and maintained unit/integration tests using JUnit, Rest Assured, Testcontainers, and project-specific test utilities.
• Supported CI/CD and local development workflows using Maven, Docker Compose, Jenkins, and generated OpenAPI clients.

Tech stack: Java 21, Spring Boot 3.5, Maven, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Keycloak, OAuth2, REST, OpenAPI/Springdoc, MapStruct, Lombok, Docker, Testcontainers, Jenkins.

• Participated in the gradual modernization of components into cloud-native 12-factor applications.
• Worked closely with the business operations team to eliminate manual processes and resolve several performance bottlenecks.
• Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline to increase developer productivity, enforce quality and security checks, and automate product delivery.
• Migrated several components into the OpenShift Kubernetes cluster.
• Built a monitoring stack from scratch with Prometheus and Grafana to monitor services running in OpenShift.
• Developed dashboards in both Grafana and Splunk for operational transparency.
• Implemented an OIDC/OAuth2-based single sign-on (SSO) solution with Keycloak to secure multiple applications.
• Technologies: Java, Spring, Quarkus, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Spring Data, Hibernate, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Keycloak, OIDC, OAuth2, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Spark.

• 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

• Development of a microservice application for calculating postings on accounts

• Development of backend components with Java or JEE, Quarkus, Kafka, Rest API

• Development of the test component with mocking frameworks (Mockito)

• Development of integration test components

• Creation of OpenAPI specification format

• Configuration of CI/CD pipeline

• Development of frontend components with React

• Design, further development and optimization of system structures

• Code review

• Java Corretto 21, JEE, Quarkus, Golang

• Reactive programming with Spring WebFlux, Project Reactor

• Git, Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline, YAML, Json Swagger UI, Postman, Rest OpenAPI, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Log4J

• Microservices, Jira, Confluence, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes (deployment via Helm charts)

• Spring Security, OAuth 2, JWT, Sonarqube

• IntelliJ, Maven, logging framework Splunk, Agile method Scrum, Nexus, Vaadin V24, build tool Vite

• React, React.JS, Node.js, Jess/JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Agile method Scrum, accessibility BITV, Playwright

• Redesign of a legacy Windows app for vehicle diagnostics as an AWS cloud application
• Creating build pipelines and conducting code reviews using Kotlin, Spring Boot, Micronaut, Jenkins, and GitHub

• Contributed to the design of the new financial services integration layer and moderated the architectural discussions
• Oversaw the security concept and approval of the application
• Prepared infrastructure setup and best practices for the Kotlin backend

• Further development, modularization, and technical modernization of the My AXA customer portal using Scrum.
• Connection of new REST APIs to expand the digital product and service portfolio.
• Splitting a monolithic application into clearly defined business responsibilities.
• Continuous refactoring of complex code parts to improve maintainability.
• Supporting other teams with interface design and introducing WireMock for integration tests.
• Standardizing caching and resilience by introducing Spring Cache and Resilience4J.
• Cleaning up request validation according to JSR-170 and developing a simulation process.
• Further development of the code generator to transform OpenAPI contracts into client libraries.
• Development of dashboards and log file analyses using Loki and Grafana Cloud.
• Monitoring and reporting of production and QA systems.
• Tech stack: Java 21, Spring Boot 3, REST, Resilience4J, Docker, OpenAPI, Grafana Cloud, Jenkins, Tekton, OpenShift, AWS, GitLab.

• Further development of a finance layer for subscription and one-time purchase billing and accounting.
• Technologies: Kotlin, AWS (SQS, S3, ElastiCache, Aurora), React, TypeScript, Coroutines, IntelliJ IDEA, Spring (Boot, Data, WebFlux), JUnit, Testcontainers, Cucumber, Liquibase, PostgreSQL, Webservices (REST), R2DBC, OpenAPI 3, Gradle, GIT, Docker, Netty, GitHub Actions, Jira/Confluence, arc42

• Visualization, search, and maintenance of various types of master data, providing them via a REST API, and implementing a variety of import and export formats.

• Implementation, architecture, project management.

• Technologies and tools: Angular (Signals, Signal Store, swagger-codegen, standalone components), Java, PostgreSQL, ActiveMQ, JavaScript, Spring Boot (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Data/JPA via Hibernate, Spring Security, Spring Modulith), JUnit, Flyway, QueryDSL, GraphQL, REST API, Node, npm, Maven, SonarQube, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Nexus, OpenAPI + Swagger UI, Keycloak, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, Confluence.