Curriculum Vitae

Career and Education

Career

Since 07/2018: Lead for SaaS & Legal Tech at IntraFind Software AG in Munich

Leading the development of Contract Analyzer, an AI-powered solution that gives law firms the flexibility and speed they need, to find what is crucial in thousand-page contracts.

Leading the development of Contract Analyzer, an AI-powered solution that gives law firms the flexibility and speed they need, to find what is crucial in thousand-page contracts. Acting as an intrapreneur and leveraging the Kanban methodology to readjust priority and product development focus on a daily basis in a highly volatile environment.
Supporting the development team with hands-on DevOps operations and line management duties in a project-driven business environment. Building an automatization CD pipeline to massively reduce deployment & delivery costs for new managed/hosted customer deployments and enable other company departments to leverage the corresponding infrastructure to reduce their operation costs. Reporting directly to the CEO to reduce the business strategy turnaround speed and speedup business pivot capabilities.

07/2017 - 07/2018: Team Lead for SaaS & Cloud at IntraFind Software AG in Munich

Building a managed on-demand enterprise search product that is partly OSS.

Actively building and operating (DevOps) a managed on-demand B2B website search product, partly built as OSS. Conducting product demos to acquire customers, pitching the product, and igniting product excitement. Supporting customers to integrate the Site Search product, leveraging co-innovation practices. Building and maintaining operational infrastructure and enhancing the product with general non-functional requirements. Working closely with marketing, sales, and business development departments to make the product a commercial success. And further propagating agile & lean software development principles across the departments. Involved in pre-sales activities to boost general feature development according to specific customer use cases and to facilitate customer acquisition.
Leading the product development & DevOps and working with HR to grow the product development & operations team. Pragmatic hands-on development mentality*, with a proven record of success enabled the product to go from zero to the first paying customer in just six months! *acting also as "Manager of one" -- Rework, J. Fried & D. Heinemeier Hansson

04/2015 - 06/2017: Senior Software Developer, 01/2013 - 03/2015: Software Developer at SAP Hybris in Munich

Development of HATEOAS/RESTful web services as microservices , on top of CloudFoundry operated as SaaS. Conceptual work on solutions to improve continuous delivery and co-engineering features with product management. Community of Practice Lead for code quality introducing new technologies to enhance productivity. [2014 - 2017]

Development of Cockpit NG, a backoffice framework used to build platform-agnostic backoffice applications based on widgets. [01/2013 - 01/2014]

Development of HATEOAS/RESTful web services as microservices , on top of CloudFoundry operated as SaaS. Conceptual work on solutions to improve continuous delivery and co-engineering features with product management. Community of Practice Lead for code quality introducing new technologies to enhance productivity. [since 01/2014]

• Application of the containerization technology Docker to simplify stack deployments.
• Implementing backend-side business logic for “YaaS Market” (SAP’s official shipping channel for subscription based services)
• Working with frontend (AngularJS) developers to enable usage of our backend APIs
• Decisive work on the implementation of four ecommerce microservices from the concept to their public release
• Introducing JVM language Kotlin to promote a more concise and type-safe implementation of microservices
• VisualVM for continious monitoring and especially profiling
• Experience with Graphite/Riemann for service monitoring
• Assure code quality using SonarQube
• Application of rxjava to enable asynchronous request processing in microservices
• Application of hystrix ’ implementation of the circuit breaker pattern to enable resilience in microservices
• Actively applying best practices of Scrum & Agile engineering
• Leveraging Java 8’ functional programming paradigm to write concise code
• Participation in various security trainings & workshops
• Development of Spring Boot powered applications deployed to Cloud Foundry
• API-first development leveraging integration tests with other teams’ web services
• Leverage of Jenkins & TeamCity as CI tools
• Conducting technical interviews for engineering positions
• Developed microservices implementing corresponding business logic
  • Order Service
  • Customer Account Service
  • High level mashup service for order processing

On-premise platform engineering

• JIRA issue tracker to manage tasks, track issues & release schedule plans
• Bamboo CI for company refeference builds & deployments / TeamCity as team-internal CI for a maximum of control & flexibility
• TDD using JUnit
• Mockito mocking framework
• Presentations & screencasts about proof-of-concept showcases, and tools & technology.
• Git DVCS as project repository
• JMeter for tracking performance regressions
• VMware CloudFoundry PaaS as cloud deployment platform
• Development of a platform-agnostic UI Framework, intended to be used by partners to build backoffice web applications (Cockpit NG Framework)
  • using ZK Web UI Component Framework as a web component framework
  • Selenium Framework to TDD UI
  • Mercurial DVCS to collaborate with team members
  • Subversion to colaborate on older projects

09/2012 - 01/2013: Team Lead at xSolut GmbH in Munich Letter of Recommendation

Development of an EU Law implementing web application using GWT, iBatis & Oracle RDBMS. Taking over responsibility for DevOps, requirement elaboration & specification, and hands-on implementation.

Development of an EU Law implementing web application using GWT, iBatis & Oracle RDBMS. Taking over responsibility for DevOps, requirement elaboration & specification, and hands-on implementation.

• CI-driven build generation, deployment & lifecycle management
  • Rollout of the application to Berliner Wasserbetriebe
    • Product delivery & documentation
• JIRA issue tracker to manage tasks, track issues & release schedule plans
• Team coordination & development process definition (Scrum Master)
• Oracle 11g RDBMS & Windows Server administration
  • CI / TeamCity
  • Tomcat
  • Oracle 11g
• Smart GWT component framework for an RIA frontend
• Spring Framework as wiring helper
• iBatis persistence framework as RDBMS to Java mapper
• JUnit test framework for regression prevention

02/2011 — 09/2012: Software Developer at digital publishing AG in Munich Recommendation, Letter of Recommendation

Architectural design & implemetation of a multi-language & multi-timezone ERP web application using GWT/JPA.

Architectural design & implemetation of a multi-language & multi-timezone ERP web application using GWT/JPA.

• JPA / EclipseLink as persistence framework
  • JPQL
• GWT with RequestFactory as front- / back-end data binding
  • Usage of asynchronous programming concepts & patterns
  • multi time zone / multi locale (L10n) / multi language (I18n) support
  • client-side custom timezone support
  • Cell Widgets as scalable data containers
  • CssResource and usage of CSS “variables” for coherent design&layout
  • GWTTestCase, a specific JUnit derivate to TDD UI-level functionality
  • Activities & Places (comprehensive/strong MVP) to enable app-level “navigation” and history support
  • Editor API to dynamically couple UI to the model
• Vaadin (“server-side, pure Java” GWT) for generic UI tasks
• Tomcat as Servlet Container
• IntelliJ IDEA as the primary team IDE
  • Utilization of debugging techniques using breakpoints and assertions
• Firebird as SQL RDBMS
• Maven for replicable build generation and CI
• JUnit Test Framework for regression prevention
• Chrome Developer Tools to understand GWT/RequestFactory
• TeamCity as CI

09/2010 – 01/2011: Working Student as Project Assistant at Cirquent Consulting in Munich

Project coordination, framework assessment and backing of an automotive industry project at two German universities.

• Coordination of an automotive aftersales platform prototype for BMW and Daimler as a joint venture project with two German universities
  • Elaboration of a functional specification document
  • Research and review of appropriate Java-based ECMs and ERPs
  • Raw data preparation for students (reduction of complexity to the most relevant parts)
  • Project introduction talks at partaking universities
  • Spring Roo as framework for an own prototype
  • Lucene/Solr search infrastructure usage

10/2009 – 04/2010: Working Student as Software Developer at Bertelsmann / arvato systems in Munich (Reference: 1^st/2 p. , 2^nd/2 p. )

Implementation of an e-publishing & e-book web application’s encryption module.

• Assistance in development of a CRM/CMS for publishers
  • Java/Groovy as programming languages
  • JUnit Test Framework for application logic
  • WebTest for UI unit tests
  • MySQL as database
  • Spring as web framework
  • Hibernate as persistence layer
  • Eclipse/IntelliJ IDEA as IDEs
  • Subversion as SCM
  • Creation of bash scripts for Linux cron jobs
  • Extensions for the Ant Build Management System

04/2008 – 09/2009: Working Student as Software Developer at Cortal Consors in Nuremberg ( Reference )

Implementation of an internally used effort estimation web application.

• Development of a Java Web Application
  • Oracle database
  • Hibernate as persistence layer
  • Application of GWT for the Web UI
  • Application of JSP for basic forms and UI
  • Java as programming language
  • Eclipse/NetBeans as IDEs
  • Subversion/SVN SCM
  • Optimization and extension of Ant build scripts

09/2006 – 04/2008: Working Student as Software Developer at Siemens Medical Solutions in Erlangen (Reference: 1^st/2 p. , 2^nd/2 p. )

Implementation of code quality statistics related tools using .NET/C#.

• Development of report tools for and in .NET/C#
  • IBM Relational ClearCase as DSCM
  • MS VS 2005/2008 IDE
  • Scrum as software management method
  • XSLT and C# as programming language
  • Application of CSS and XHTML for presentation

04/2005 – 09/2005: Private tutor in Mathematics

Supporting high school studends to improve their grades through exercises.

• tutoring within a private study group

10/2004 – 03/2005: Practical part of the University of Cooperative Education study: Web Developer at Siteforum in Erfurt

Implementation of a help desk web application from scratch.

• Decisive development of a helpdesk web application
  • Application of a proprietary PHP-like scripting language
  • MySQL and PostgreSQL as databases
  • Application of regular expressions for mail categorization

University

07/2010 – 03/2011: Study of Computer Linguistics and Philosophy (M.A., 10-11 ^th semester) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

• Emphases: Logic and Ontology, computer-driven processing of the natural language

10/2005 – 03/2010: Study of Philosophy and Sociology (M.A., 9 semesters) at Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg

• Intermediate Examination (BA equivalent)
• Emphases: Logic, Media and Communication, Organization Systems

10/2004 – 03/2005: Study of Information and Communication Technologies (Diploma) at the University of Cooperative Education Eisenach

• working at Siteforum

Basic Military Service

07/2003 – 04/2004 Basic Military Service in Haidhausen and Munich

High School Grad.

2003 — German Abitur, Allgemeine Hochschulreife

Qualifications and Interests

Expertise

Books that influenced the way I write code, build products & services, and discover business opportunities

• Clean Code, Robert C. Martin
• The Clean Coder, Robert C. Martin
• Effective Java, Joshua Bloch
• The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
• Rework, J. Fried & D. Heinemeier Hansson

Basic knowledge & familiarity with following technologies

• Programming languages: C#/ASP.NET, C/C++, and Go
• Scripting languages: PHP, Perl, and Ruby
• Google Chrome Extension development
• Machine learning methods & AI

Good and advanced knowledge of following technologies

• Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows
  • Virtualization technologies VMware and Xen
  • Administration of dedicated Linux servers
• Blockchain implementations
• Software Development
  • Java Technologies ( usage within my own project)
    • Programming languages: Java, Scala, and Groovy
    • Google Web Toolkit, GWT web UI framework ( demo)
    • Objectify persistence framework for the GAE datastore
    • JavaFX, Swing (usage within Unitex)
    • Google App Engine (GAE cloud web application framework)
    • Database persistence frameworks: Hibernate and JPA
  • Software Development Concepts and Paradigms
    • Test Driven Development and QA through JUnit, ScalaTest/Specs and Selenium/WebTest
    • Agile Software Development
      • Scrum, Kanban
    • OO Programming and UML
    • Automatization of complex software build, deployment and delivery processes with Ant
    • Collaboration Tools
      • SCM: Subversion/SVN
      • DSCM: Mercurial and Git
      • JIRA (Ticket/Issue Tracking Application)
  • Python (usage within my own project: demo)
  • Android Application Development (published app)
  • Google APIs usage within Chrome Extension and general web application development
  • Gradle & Maven (usage within my own projects)
  • Oracle PL/SQL
  • Chrome Developer Tools
  • UI & Frontend Development
    • HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript (Ajax)
• Structured presentation of content and information
  • XML/XSD, XSLT/XPath, JSON
  • Text processing with regular expressions
  • LaTeX

Languages

• English (fluent)
• German (native level)
• Russian (native language)
• Latin (Latinum level)

Interests

• Media Technology
  • loxal showcase platform: the page, the blog and my projects
• Universal, generic and open problem solutions
• Media culture
  • Information synthesis out of data and knowledge organization
  • Social networks and collaboration concepts
• Economy and the blockchain technology
• Sports
  • Triathletics
  • Tennis
  • Badminton
  • Squash

Engagement

• Contributions to various Open Source Software projects
  • VMware CloudFoundry Maven Plugin
  • Contributed to Jetty, a Java Servlet container
  • Contributed to Google’s Go Programming Language
  • Maintenance of own open source projects
  • Unitex
  • mojoPortal