Software Engineer
2017 - 2018Planet Labs Germany GmbH- Implemented a platform permissions system to serve satellite imagery with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and GDAL.
- Developed a billing engine, enforcing area download quotas with Bottle and low-level PostGIS.
- Built a BigQuery-based internal analytics app; using Google Data Studio as the UI.
- Handled 200 billing API requests per second (uWSGI, PostgreSQL locks/transactions).
- Constructed a fully automated delivery pipeline.
- Migrated a system from Amazon Web Services to the Google Cloud Platform (SQS, RDS, Docker).
Technologies: Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, PostGIS, PythonCloud Platform Lead
2016 - 2017LOVOO GmbH- Deploying a slew of microservices in Golang to a distributed Kubernetes cluster, optimized to handle 1.5 gigabit/s of API traffic.
- Built an internal platform as a service for the teams.
- Fully automated the deployments, canary releases, and traffic shifting for blue\green.
- Evaluated and benchmarked cloud providers for an optimal solution.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Go, CoreOS, KubernetesTech Lead
2013 - 2016Home24 AG- Supported a logistic calculations project, handling millions of entries (migrated RabbitMQ to SQS).
- Implemented a massive third-party product data import of a re-architecture project (SQS, DynamoDB, optimistic locking, and streaming XML).
- Worked on an acceptance testing project, providing the QA with the architecture for transparency and test case code re-usage (Codeception).
- Implemented a major webshop checkout refactoring for testability and performance.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Solr, MySQL, PHP