Ivan G. - Technical Lead

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Esslingen, Germany

Experience

Jun 2025 - Present

5 months

Remote

Senior Software Engineer / Solution Architect

Carl Zeiss AG

In charge of architecture and implementation of the part search and management portal.

Implemented an ingestion and validation pipeline in Kafka for part details delivery to Elasticsearch
Contributed on the React frontend by integrating components and UI elements
Created infrastructure as code setup for Azure using CDKTF

Nov 2023 - Apr 2025

1 year 6 months

Remote

Technical Lead

Porsche Digital GmbH

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

Feb 2023 - Oct 2023

9 months

Remote

Senior Solution Architect

1inch

Designed and developed an API gateway written in GoLang able to handle 1.3 Billion requests per day
Developed a low latency distributed rate limiter based on Redis Lua scripts
Developed an Angular based developer portal with a Nest.js API backend
Set up IaC using CDKTF/Terraform on AWS and GitOps in Kubernetes

Sep 2022 - Feb 2023

6 months

Ludwigsburg, Germany

Hybrid

Senior Lead Engineer

Porsche Digital GmbH

Led a team in developing high quality Vue.js frontend applications
Contributed in designing the new architecture of the porsche.com website using JamStack (Astro, Vue, SSG)
Implemented a proof of concept of the new target architecture based on CI/CD builds and CloudFront

Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

1 year

Stuttgart, Germany

Technical Lead - Data Streaming

mimacom Deutschland GmbH (Porsche Digital GmbH)

Internal trainings and public training offering for Kafka
Spoke in conferences about Kafka management and event driven architecture

Jun 2016 - Aug 2022

6 years 3 months

Stuttgart, Germany

Senior Software Engineer / Solution Architect

mimacom Deutschland GmbH (Porsche Digital GmbH)

Facilitated MyPorsche cross team architectural discussions providing valuable input and opinions
Designed and implemented an OpenCV based GIF generation software responsible for creating engaging personalized emails
Driven the transformation of a monolith into Spring/Quarkus micro services communicating over Kafka to allow application scaling
Bootstrapped and developed the official MyPorsche Inbox frontend customer application using Angular and GraphQL/DynamoDB/AWS Lambda
Set up distributed tracing via OpenTracing and NewRelic to allow effective intra and cross team distributed tracing
Set up CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test and continuous deployments to production
Design and implementation of self managed API infrastructure on Azure via Pulumi
Created an Ionic multiplatform application with payment, map and backend API integration

Nov 2011 - May 2016

4 years 7 months

Venice, Italy

Software Engineer

Akera s.r.l.

Designed and implemented an explorer like interface in AngularJS for dynamic content
Implemented a two layer cache based on aggregated hash keys using Varnish in Liferay 5.x

Summary

Passionate software engineer eager to experiment with new technologies and willing to go the extra mile to deliver amazing products. Brings in the ability to learn quickly and to adapt promptly to new environments, strong analytical and problem solving skills and years of experience in designing solutions for big customers.

As next step in my career I would like to work with Data Streaming and Analytics, Machine learning and Functional programming paradigms.