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Sebastián Katzer

Smart Charging

Sebastián Katzer
Leipzig, Germany

Experience

Jun 2024 - Present
1 year 8 months

Smart Charging

Mercedes-Benz, MBTI

  • Agile software development in an interdisciplinary environment

  • Cross-team collaboration to achieve important milestones

  • Independently developing new and improving existing features

  • Estimation, refinement, implementation, and presentation

  • Finding solution ideas, analyzing problems, rolling out bug fixes

  • Writing automated tests, manual testing, log and error analysis

  • Ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of the production environment

  • Rolling out releases and multi-stage infrastructure

  • Setting up alerts and monitoring

  • Pair programming, code reviews, documentation

  • On-call duty, 3rd level support

  • Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture

  • Microservices based on Go (Gin), Java 21 (Spring Boot 3), Python (FastAPI)

  • Terraform/OpenTofu, KQL, SQL, JSON, REST, Helm, ArgoCD, AzureCLI, K9s, OAuth2

  • Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Azure EventHub, Kubernetes, nginx, Ingress

  • AppInsights, LogAnalytics, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, OpenAPI 3, Swagger

  • Azure DataExplorer, Storage, KeyVault, Container Registry, Azure Functions,…

  • Junit5/Jupiter, testify, RestAssured, Docker Compose, Wiremock

  • IntelliJ, Scrum, Kanban, Teams, Confluence, OpsGenie, Arc42

  • GitHub CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps

  • EV charging protocols (EVSE, OCPP, V1G, V2G)

Apr 2022 - Sep 2023
1 year 6 months

ROAD-Kit Enhancement

Mercedes-Benz, MBTI

  • Agile software development in an interdisciplinary setting with multiple teams working closely together and supporting each other

  • Independently developing new and improving existing features

  • Finding solution ideas, presenting them to the team, piloting, and implementing

  • Analyzing errors; writing automated E2E and UI tests; manual testing

  • Participating in workshops, handling tickets, analyzing bug reports

  • Community support: being available to in-car app developers for advice, explaining new features, and responding to their requests and needs

  • Redesigning the CLI architecture; porting all features to the new vehicle generation; optimizing existing functions

  • Sole responsibility for developing the VSCode-based IDE with full design ownership

  • Further development of ADKs based on Yocto and QEMU

  • Building new releases

  • Pair programming

  • Go, Typescript, QML/C++, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, React, Rust, Shell

  • GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes

  • Miro, Teams, Rocket.Chat, Figma, MS Office, Jira, Confluence

  • IntelliJ, VSCode Extension API, Podman, QEMU, Yocto, Packer, VNC, Qt

  • OAWSP, DevSecOps, Codebashing, Immersive Labs, Threat Modeling

  • Scrum, Kanban

Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month

Saveris Restaurant Enhancement

Testo SE

  • Finding solution approaches and implementing them in the legacy system while it's running worldwide; extending the data model and migrating existing data

  • Parallel extraction of parts of the legacy system into standalone services and their deployment; redevelopment using modern technologies and domain-driven design

  • 3rd level support, fixing (and finding) bugs and incidents

  • Technical and functional onboarding of new team members

  • Supporting manual tests; writing automated software tests; attending SCRUM meetings

  • Java 8/11/17, Java EE Stack, Spring Boot Stack, Axon, Apache Camel, Hibernate, DeltaSpike, Tomcat, Weld CDI, Junit Jupiter, Spock, Gherkin, Cucumber

  • CQRS, Event Sourcing

  • Amazon AWS Stack (Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Container Registry, EC2, SNS/SQS, LaunchDarkly, Lambda, saml2aws, etc.), CloudFormation, Terraform

  • Docker, Gradle, IntelliJ, MySQL

  • Jenkins, SonarQube, GitLab, GitLab CI, Serenity

  • Jira, Confluence, Miro, Slack, Teams, Whiteboard

  • OWASP

  • Scrum, Kanban

Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
1 year 6 months

Occupational German Language Training Enhancement

BAMF

  • Extending on-site controls for planning and creating checklists, rule-based data analysis to suggest sanctions, complex reporting, and interactive data and metric visualization

  • Redesigning course management for both course providers to create and manage courses and internal administrators to process data; implementing complex validations

  • Writing automated tests, data migration, providing API and client

  • Java, Spring Boot, Typescript, Angular, Cucumber/Gherkin, JSON, REST API

  • Oracle, PL/SQL, Swagger, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Rancher, Kubernetes, OpenAPI 3

  • Axon, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Scrum, Jira, Confluence, GitLab

Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
5 months

infinitec SaaS Platform Enhancement

infinitec GmbH

  • Developing an engine for transaction classification

  • Bidirectional integration of external partners (e.g., banks) to import and manage customer data

  • Java, Groovy, PostgreSQL, Vavr, JSON, REST API, Swagger (OpenAPI 2)

  • Spring, Docker, Grafana, Spock, TestRail, Git, Gradle

  • Scrum, Jira, Confluence

Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
4 months

Further development of blugento datahub

St. Benno Mediengroup

  • Development of the integration components and data pipelines to or between Akeneo and Magento

  • Java, Groovy, HSQLDB

  • Spring, Camel, Akeneo, Magento, Spock, Git, Gradle

Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
2 years 5 months

Development of ORBIT - monitoring of production processes

BMW AG

  • Communication with the client

  • Responsible for architecture and implementation

  • Integration into the existing IT landscape

  • C, Go, mruby, Ruby, JS, Sencha

  • Git, Scrum, Jira, Docker, SSH, SSL, HTTP, Sockets

Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
7 months

Development of CFK+ for real-time production visualization

BMW AG

  • Communication with the client, business units, and IT

  • Responsible for architecture and implementation

  • Integration into the existing IT landscape

  • Java, JavaFx, Hibernate, PL/SQL

  • Git, Gradle, Oracle, LDAP, Jira

Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
5 months

Further development of the Wimdu online portal

Wimdu GmbH

  • Design and development of private APIs for mobile clients

  • Design and development of public APIs for the affiliate program

  • Interface development to integrate external data sources

  • Ruby, JavaScript, OAuth 2, MySQL

  • Rails, Elastic Search, Jira, Git, Scrum

Mar 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 10 months

Development of production and management reports

BMW AG

  • Communication with the client and business units

  • Design and development of reports

  • Development of a KPI engine for real-time calculations

  • Integration into the existing IT landscape

  • Java, JavaScript, Oracle, PL/SQL

  • Eclipse BIRT

May 2014 - Feb 2015
10 months

Development of the fleetboard.app for truck drivers

Daimler Fleetboard

  • Design and implementation of various main components, including dashboard, time management, messenger, calendar and profile

  • Integration of local and push notifications

  • Java, Android

  • Git, Maven, protobuf, Robolectric

  • Jira, Confluence, Scrum

Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
6 months

Further development of an online platform for office supplies

papersmart GmbH

  • Design and implementation of new payment processes

  • Integration of new payment systems

  • Database and infrastructure migration

  • Execution of load and performance tests

  • Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL

  • Rails, PayOne, ActiveMerchant

  • Git, Scrum

Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
3 years

Development of the mobile alerting solution maintcall

BMW AG

  • Responsible for architecture, implementation and deployment

  • Coordination of interface specifications

  • Development of the backend and the push service

  • Development of mobile clients for Android, iOS and Windows Phone

  • Development of the administration interface as a web application

  • Development of the Visio plug-in for modeling escalation flows

  • Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Objective-C, C#, Visual Basic, Oracle

  • Rails, ExtJS, Android, iOS, .NET, Visio, BEA, Git

  • Scrum, Jira

Jan 2008 - Dec 2011
4 years

Tool for collaborative development of software models

University of Leipzig

  • Design of the system architecture

  • Development of the backend and push services

  • Development of the web application and the modeling editor

  • Conceptual analysis, development and implementation of algorithms for conflict resolution strategies

  • Ruby, JavaScript, MySQL

  • Rails, ExtJS, InfoViz

  • SVN, Redmine

Languages

English
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

University of Leipzig

Master of Science · Computer Science · Leipzig, Germany

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Where is Sebastián based?

Sebastián is based in Leipzig, Germany.

What languages does Sebastián speak?

Sebastián speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), German (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Sebastián have?

Sebastián has at least 17 years of experience. During this time, Sebastián has worked in at least 14 different roles and for 10 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 2 months. Note that Sebastián may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Sebastián be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Sebastián would be well-suited for roles such as: Smart Charging, ROAD-Kit Enhancement, Saveris Restaurant Enhancement.

What is Sebastián's latest experience?

Sebastián's most recent position is Smart Charging at Mercedes-Benz, MBTI.

What companies has Sebastián worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Sebastián has worked for Mercedes-Benz, MBTI, Testo SE, and BAMF.

Which industries is Sebastián most experienced in?

Sebastián is most experienced in industries like Automotive, Education, and Information Technology (IT). Sebastián also has some experience in Government and Public Administration, Retail, and Banking and Finance.

Which business areas is Sebastián most experienced in?

Sebastián is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Product Development, and Business Intelligence. Sebastián also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA) and Research and Development (R&D).

Which industries has Sebastián worked in recently?

Sebastián has recently worked in industries like Automotive, Education, and Government and Public Administration.

Which business areas has Sebastián worked in recently?

Sebastián has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Product Development, and Quality Assurance (QA).

What is Sebastián's education?

Sebastián holds a Master in Computer Science from University of Leipzig.

What is the availability of Sebastián?

Sebastián is immediately available for suitable projects.

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