Maurice Knopp
Senior Solution Architect
Experience
Senior Solution Architect
Wind Turbine Manufacturer
- Analysis of complex IoT remote monitoring application processing up to 100k events per second
- In depth analysis of existing microservices, interfaces and data flows of on-premise solution
- Created concepts for new Azure cloud–based solution to increase scalability, stability and reliability by 10×
- Proposed solution to high-level management with migration timeline for on-prem to cloud
- Led implementation phase as solution architect, continuously monitoring, planning and refining architecture throughout development and testing
Senior Expert Big Data Solution Architect
Undisclosed Company
- Designed and built data model for high-performance big data application handling billing of billions of items for a governmental health insurance service
- Translated functional requirements into technical requirements and data model
- Conceptualized in-memory data structure to handle billions of entries with high throughput
- Selected technology components and built software stack
- Implemented and ran benchmarks for processing and workflow control (Camunda 8, Spring Statemachine)
- Evaluated performance tests for millions of data points
- Designed microservice in-memory application and proof-of-concept implementation
- Architected data persistence for historical data
- Performed proof-of-concepts and measured access times for hundreds of millions of data points
Data Engineer
Undisclosed Company
- Optimized performance of HBase access for complex data structures
- Identified HBase performance bottlenecks and optimized access patterns and data processing flows
- Used fastutil library to reduce memory footprint and shorten Spark job runtimes processing tens of millions of rows
- Optimized existing Spark jobs to reduce runtime and memory footprint by 50 %
- Implemented Spark jobs accessing HBase data structures and Kafka messaging to meet functional requirements
Senior Java Enterprise Developer / REST-API Architect
RheinEnergie AG
- Designed, architected and implemented a high-performance Java OnlineService API microservice as intermediary between AngularJS frontend and SAP ERP backend (OData)
- Served up to 1 million customer requests for online services
- Secured microservice with OWASP security measures and API data validation
- Conducted requirements engineering, optimized, implemented and verified business services within the Java microservice
- Improved service reliability through automated metrics monitoring (AWS Kibana), fixes and improvements
- Deployed new software releases to production environments
- Led developer discussions and peer reviews for high code quality
- Implemented frontend (Cypress) and backend (Postman REST) tests
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Energy (4 years), Manufacturing (1 year), Healthcare (1 year), Insurance (1 year), Government and Administration (1 year), and Information Technology (0.5 years).
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Experienced in Information Technology (4 years), Product Development (3 years), and Business Intelligence (1 year).
Summary
My name is Maurice Knopp and for more than 21 years I have been passionately developing powerful, reliable, scalable and maintainable full-stack enterprise software and big data applications for major companies such as DuMont, Pixelpark (end customer: KfW), RTL, ]init[ (end customer: German government), RheinEnergie and many more.
Measurable results are my driving force: Understanding user needs quickly, offering added value through an ideal software solution and iteratively developing it further in order to ultimately optimally design value chains is usually the focus of my work.
To date, I have helped dozens of companies from Germany and Luxembourg to implement new data/web software or to extend existing systems, to modernize their core business processes and/or to develop completely new business areas and customer groups.
Top Skills:
Ownership mentality top reliability Highly solution-oriented and results-focused Clear, targeted, and audience-specific communication Often bridge between developers and business stakeholders Quick onboarding and adaptability
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Education
Master, Business Informatics · Business Informatics
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