Résumé

Improve core business functionality to improve the scalability of the company.

• Unify the tech stack by replacing legacy services with replacements in TypeScript or Ruby.
• Continous development of the company's IT architecture (collaboratively, across departments and teams).
• Work with the requirements of ISO/IEC 27001.
• Demonstration of newly developed product features to the business during sprint reviews.
• Close cooperation with data and QA teams.

I resigned within the probationary period.

Relaunched the agency's own product: a web portal, that targets the areas of tourism, events, arts and entertainment, local retail and city marketing, based on interactive virtual tours.
I've been involved deeply in the creation process: From idea, to concept, to development of software, and eventually to analytical review, monitoring and maintenance.

• Created products for target groups (city & business customers, end consumers)
• Established and optimized business processes
• Proposed and setup a monitoring infrastructure incl. product dashboards
• Developed individual customer projects (web applications)
• Been the technical contact person to the general management and customers
• Maintained and extended various legacy web applications
• Played a key role in the move to a new CRM system
• Proposed technical improvements, including economic viability calculations
• Lead and mentored working students
• Proposed and implemented several SEO measures for the product
• Wrote customer and end user documentation
• Demoed newly developed product features to the company

Web development with Ruby and JavaScript.

• Developed a new internally used core application to curate the freshly published articles
• Developed a new application for a new revenue share program, connecting to a payment provider and analytic services. My application sent several hundred thousand US dollars of shared revenue.
• Developed new home pages and article pages (averaging to > 30 million page views per month)
• Ongoing transition from monolithic applications to micro-services
• Transition from one product to multiple, topic specific, vertical platforms
• Maintained and extended various web applications in back- and front end
• Technical support within the company

• Developed a farm management system (MVP)
• Specified and implemented REST-API endpoints for mobile applications

• Developed a backend system serving an API for a large customer and its apps
• Developed front- and backend for data visualization for customers of a smart meter data provider
• Developed a single page application for data visualization of energy plants
• Developed and maintained a portal for sporting clubs and leagues, including video processing, integration of payment systems, handling subscriptions, etc.
• Introduced new tools like task runners and a CI server
• Forwarded potential use cases to sales and distribution
• Developed multiple new static websites
• Maintained Wordpress and Joomla instances

I've quit this job because I decided to move to Berlin and get out of the comfort zone.

• Tutor for winter term 2009 programming course.
• Research assistant for the Mobile Smart Metering project in summer 2011, focusing on digitalSTROM

Elective courses: Network Administration, Operating Systems, Online Marketing.

Overall B. Sc. grade: 1.56

Bachelor thesis

The frontend application based on jQuery Mobile. Communication with the backend, which was based on ProSyst's mBS Smart Home OSGi Framework, has been realized via AJAX, WebSockets and JSON.