Lars Fronius
Verified Expert in Engineering
Serverless Developer
Berlin, Germany
Toptal member since May 23, 2019
Lars has a decade of experience building and running production-grade software. He started with Linux servers and has now transitioned over the past seven years to leveraging cloud services with AWS. He adopted DevOps practices in the early days and is now a serverless advocate. Lars is also experienced with CI/CD and public clouds.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 8 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 7 years
- DevOps - 7 years
- Serverless Architecture - 3 years
- Serverless - 3 years
- AWS Lambda - 3 years
- Go - 2 years
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), GoLand, Vim Text Editor
The most amazing...
...thing I've built at a hackathon was a data pipeline to visualize global app usage in real-time on a world map on our company's dashboard.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Cloudbees Inc
- Built and extended Codeship CI platform.
- Refactored two monolithical apps into unified services.
- Rebuilt caching and networking infrastructure for builds.
- Performed major system upgrades.
Platform Engineer
SysEleven
- Created testable SaaS-like hosting platform.
- Built first self-service onboarding for their Cloud.
- Coordination of releases across different teams.
Software Engineer
Inbot
- Created real-time interactions for sales assistant bot.
- Performed data analysis on Elasticsearch.
- Rebuilt infrastructure towards a testable self-service platform.
Site Reliability Engineer
EyeEm
- Created first data pipeline and search implementation.
- Migrated infrastructure from unmanaged servers towards a self-service compute platform.
Experience
Self-service (SaaS-like) Platform for Managed Hosting
We automated component by component, including it's scaling and deployment to move from fairly manual web hosting over to an a lot less hands-on and more automated approach.
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon
Skills
Tools
Gorilla, AWS Step Functions, Vim Text Editor, GoLand, Ansible, Terraform
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Serverless Architecture, Agile Software Development
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Linux, Docker, OpenStack, Amazon EC2
Languages
Go, Java, Ruby, Python, SQL, PHP
Frameworks
Gin-Gonic, Serverless Framework, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Storage
PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Memcached, Redis
Other
AWS Certified Solution Architect, Serverless, Agile Software Testing
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