Peter Morgenstern

Backend Engineer

Kempten, Germany

Experience

Sep 2022 - Present
2 years 10 months
Kempten, Germany

Backend Engineer

Sonnen GmbH

  • Sonnen offers home batteries and energy contracts to provide renewable energy.

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, OpenID Connect, Kubernetes.
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
10 months

Sabbatical

  • Camper tour around southern Europe with a custom-built van.
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
7 months
Berlin, Germany

Interims Tech Lead

Heyday Technologies GmbH

  • Heyday was a SaaS to provide benefits to employees.
  • Built the initial platform.
  • Led the initial tech team.
  • Supported the hiring of a permanent tech lead.

Technologies:

  • TypeScript, NestJS, NextJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform, Kubernetes, FluxCD.
Jun 2015 - Nov 2020
5 years 6 months
Berlin, Germany

Co-founder and CTO

Store2be GmbH

  • Store2be was a SaaS-enabled marketplace for short-term rental of retail spaces for marketing roadshows.

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, TypeScript, React, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services.
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
6 months
Donostia, Spain
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University of the Basque Country

Computer Science studies.

Apr 2014 - Jan 2015
10 months
Karlsruhe, Germany

Full Stack Developer

Ninja Concept GmbH

  • Web development next to studies in a Ruby environment for client projects.

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, HAML, SASS, CoffeeScript, jQuery, Bootstrap.
Oct 2011 - May 2013
1 year 8 months
Karlsruhe, Germany

Full Stack Developer

GetPhoto.com fotograf.de

  • First employee; worked next to studies and full time for 8 months.

Technologies:

  • PHP, CakePHP, PostgreSQL, Redis, JavaScript, jQuery.
Jan 2009 - Dec 2016
7 years
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Information and Business Engineering

  • Computer Science (40%), Business (40%), Law (20%)
  • Grades: Master's (1.2 out of 5), Bachelor's (1.6 out of 5)
  • Master's thesis: Gamification in brand personality research
  • Bachelor's thesis: Conceptual design, development and evaluation of a web application for an assistive, intelligent Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) monitoring system

Summary

I am a software and DevOps engineer with 10+ years of professional engineering experience and 6 years of experience as a tech lead. I love building simple, maintainable and well documented solutions. My sweet spot is a tech lead position in a digital product company with backend and DevOps responsibilities.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate

Education

Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

University of the Basque Country

Computer Science · Donostia, Spain

Oct 2013 - Jun 2016

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Master of Science, Gamification in brand personality research · Information and Business Engineering · Germany · 1.2

Oct 2010 - Jun 2013

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science, Conceptual design, development and evaluation of a web application for an assistive, intelligent Ambient · Information and Business Engineering · Germany · 1.6