Freelance Cloud Software Engineer

Project focus: backend development for a portal for test drive bookings

Client: (not disclosed for data privacy reasons)

Project period: 03.2022 – 10.2022

Role in project: fullstack developer / DevOps engineer

Industry: automotive

Further development of a portal for booking test drives for end customers through the company's dealers

Backend development and testing

Designed and linked REST interfaces between frontend and backend

Maintained Elasticsearch, monitored the process in Kibana

Created documentation and guides

Presented results to the client after each sprint

Secured REST interfaces with role and permission management and secrets management

Team structure: Scrum team with about 6 developers and 1 business analyst

Technologies used: Java, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Quarkus, Jenkins, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Groovy, event storage, Elasticsearch, Git

Project focus: backend development for a portal for charging equipment recommendations

Client: (not disclosed for data privacy reasons)

Project period: 08.2021 – 03.2022

Role in project: fullstack developer

Industry: automotive

Built a portal to recommend the best charging equipment for customers' electric cars

Developed a core algorithm to generate recommendations

Backend development and testing

Designed and linked REST interfaces between frontend and backend

Created documentation, e.g., architecture diagrams and guides

Consulted with clients on feature development

Onboarded new colleagues

Team structure: Scrum team with about 3 developers and 3 business analysts

Technologies used: Java, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Quarkus, Jenkins, Angular, MSSQL, Docker, AWS, Git

Project focus: Expansion of a development infrastructure

Client: (Not disclosed for data protection reasons)

Project duration: 09.2020 – 01.2021

Role in project: Platform Engineer

Industry: Transportation sector

Developed a Kubernetes controller in Go to automatically manage development projects

Maintained and supported existing components

Planning and documentation

Contributed to the open-source project Crossplane

Team setup: Scrum team with about 6 developers and architects

Technologies used: Go, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Git, Crossplane

Project focus: Frontend development of a portal in the tax sector

Client: (Not disclosed for data protection reasons)

Project duration: 02.2020 – 09.2020

Role in project: Java Frontend Developer

Industry: Public sector

Enhanced features from a requirements specification

Developed frontend screens

Bug fixing, maintenance and support

Testing and quality assurance

Data analysis

Team setup: Team of about 10 developers plus testers and planners

Technologies used: Java, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Jenkins, JSP, SQL, HTML, CSS, Git, GitLab

Project focus: Backend development of a microservice application

Client: (Not disclosed for data protection reasons)

Project duration: 08.2019 – 01.2020

Role in project: Java Backend Developer / DevOps Engineer

Industry: Finance

Designed and implemented backend microservices

Connected interfaces to the frontend

Set up and maintained a developer pipeline with Jenkins

Set up monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus

Created documentation and supported handover to new offshore colleagues

Team setup: Scrum team with about 6 developers

Technologies used: Java, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Spring Boot, Jenkins, REST, OpenShift, Prometheus, Grafana, Git, Bitbucket

Project focus: Backend development of an interface in customer service

Client: (Not disclosed for data protection reasons)

Project duration: 02.2019 – 08.2019

Role in project: Java Backend Developer / Business Analyst

Industry: Telecommunications

Took over a codebase that was in poor condition

Enhanced features

Improved code quality by adding tests and documentation

Maintenance and deployment of new builds

Requirements analysis and presentation of results to the client

Replaced the core algorithm for calculating different scenarios

Team setup: Together with an offshore developer and a business analyst

Technologies used: Java, Maven, JUnit, SOAP, MSSQL, Tomcat, Subversion

Project focus: Internal traineeship / Jumpstart

Client: Accenture (Internal)

Project duration: 12.2018 – 01.2019

Role in project: Java Developer

Industry: Consulting

Introduction to corporate culture

Java trainings

Agile working trainings

Spring Boot trainings

Earned Java OCA and Professional Scrum Developer I certificates

Team setup: Group of six participants with rotating trainers

Technologies used: Java, Spring Boot, JDBC, JPA, JUnit, Mockito, Agile Development