Nico Saueressig

Experienced Ruby Developer

Nico Saueressig
Heidelberg, Germany

Experience

Oct 2022 - Present
2 years 5 months
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HL Design

Implementing new features using best practices for a long running e-commerce and content management platform used by a large variety of different customers.

#rubyonrails #ruby #rest #postgres #tdd #rspec #testing #ecommerce #cms

Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
11 months
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Fluidmobile GmbH

Extending and improving a mature Ruby on Rails platform to support multiple mobile apps and IOT applications.

#rubyonrails #ruby #rest #postgres #tdd #rspec #testing #heroku #ci #agilepractices #iot

Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 3 months
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Parcelly Ltd

Maintaining and extending a mature Sinatra platform with a Ruby on Rails based administration interface at scale.

#sinatra #rubyonrails #ruby #rest #postgres #tdd #minitest #testing #ci #agilepractices #logistics #scale #resque

Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
8 months
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Neoom Group

Implementing new features in a Ruby on Rails app both frontend and backend. Some use of VueJS. Consulting and pushing good practices. Retrofitting tests.

#rubyonrails #ruby #rest #postgres #tdd #minitest #ci #agilepractices #vuejs #iot

Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
2 months
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Allianz SE

Conceptualising and implementing a new payment solution for an internationally well known Allianz partnership in the dental medical space.

#ruby #sinatra #stripe

Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
2 months
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Brümmer Digital Ventures

I helped to make sensible technical choices and audited existing products.

#technicalconsulting

Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
2 years 3 months
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ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE

Implementing new features and improving a legacy Ruby on Rails backend with multiple Angular frontends. Architecting and rewriting the legacy platform ensuring 100% code coverage and clean code practices. Maintaining and updating the platform.

#rubyonrails #ruby #sinatra #heroku #aws #rest #postgres #tdd #testing #rspec #devops #infrastructure #ci #agilepractices #pairprogramming #architecture #microservices #serverless #lambda #javascript #angular

Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
3 months
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100Worte

Python Flask frontend application. Backend integration as well as building a user and administration dashboard.

#python #flask #javascript

Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
2 months
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Entangled

iOS application. Backend integration and addition of new UI views. Also a NodeJS backend application to which I added new backend endpoints as well as a complex metrics module.

#ios #swift #nodejs #javascript #postgres

Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
3 months
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Wawibox

I helped with their iOS application and wrote a NodeJS integration test suite for their public API.

#ios #swift #nodejs #testing #javascript

Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
2 months
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Sketch

iOS application. Backend migration to new hosted Parse solution and adding some functionality.

#ios #swift #parse

Apr 2017 - Present
7 years 11 months
Heidelberg, Germany

Software Engineer

Freelance

Pragmatic and agile software developer who likes to build sustainable and maintainable software to deliver real value.

I have worked with large stock traded companies as well as numerous startups. I have been involved with concrete implementations, architecting technical solutions, introducing agile project management and development processes as well as technical consulting.

  • Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra
  • Swift, iOS
  • Javascript, NodeJS
  • TDD, Rspec, Capybara (with Selenium, Chrome etc.), Cucumber, Testing, Testing Automation
  • Pair Programming, Agile practices
  • Technical project management
  • Postgresql, MongoDB
  • REST, APIs, Microservice Architectures, Serverless
  • AWS (EC2, ELB, Cloudwatch, Elastic Transcoder, Lambda, S3, Elastisearch etc.)
  • Heroku
  • Devops, Infrastructure, Chef, Jenkins, Semaphore, Heroku CI, Riemann, Nagios
  • Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD)
  • Atlassian (Jira, Confluence), Trello, Miro
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
1 year 3 months
London, United Kingdom

Software Engineer

Ebay

Ebay.co.uk we built a full range shipping solution for ebay sellers with integration of major carriers.

  • Existing massively scaled legacy SOA
  • Agile transformation
  • Improving towards continous deployment
  • Internal engineering excellence initiative

#java #agiletransformation #testing #java #junit #infrastructure

Sep 2014 - Apr 2017
2 years 8 months
London, United Kingdom

Software Engineer

Shutl Ltd (Ebay inc.)

Shutl iOS app written in Swift with a Clojure backend that allows users to track their deliveries.

Shutl.com new corporate website. Fully responsive and test-driven Rails app that allows c2c customers to book Shutl same day deliveries.

  • Pair programming
  • Monitored and tested microservice architecture
  • Retrospectives and daily standups
  • Developing new mobile and web applications
  • Maintaining and extending existing services
  • On-call duty as platform engineer
  • Recurring membership of the platform team

#ruby #rubyonrails #sinatra #javascript #clojure #ios #swift #infrastructure #aws #devops #ci #mongodb #postgres #pairprogramming #agilepractices #tdd #testing #microservices

Summary

Freelance software developer based in Heidelberg, Germany. Worked with large stock traded companies as well as numerous startups. Involved with concrete implementations, architecting technical solutions, introducing agile project management and development processes as well as technical consulting. - Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra - Swift, iOS - Javascript, NodeJS - TDD, Rspec, Capybara (with Selenium, Chrome etc.), Cucumber, Testing, Testing Automation - Pair Programming, Agile practices - Technical project management - Postgresql, MongoDB - REST, APIs, Microservice Architectures, Serverless - AWS (EC2, ELB, Cloudwatch, Elastic Transcoder, Lambda, S3, Elastisearch etc.) - Heroku - Devops, Infrastructure, Chef, Jenkins, Semaphore, Heroku CI, Riemann, Nagios - Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) - Atlassian (Jira, Confluence), Trello, Miro

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2010 - Jun 2013

Middlesex University, London

Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) · Audio Production · London, United Kingdom