Oliver Kriz, Back-end Developer in Berlin, Germany
Oliver Kriz

Back-end Developer in Berlin, Germany

Member since July 7, 2020
Oliver is a passionate back-end engineer with a data-driven mindset of a hacker—thinking out of the box—and 15+ years of professional software development experience in over seven different industries. Oliver has an affinity for analyzing, digitalizing, and optimizing business processes and workflows. His main tech stack is PHP with MySQL or PostgreSQL—either plain or with Symfony. He's interested in smaller hourly projects in high-tech industries to expand his network and broaden his horizons.
Oliver is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

Berlin, Germany

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Unix, Jenkins, Atlassian, JetBrains, PhpStorm, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is probably a customized A/B testing solution (and bots to help me with tedious everyday tasks like online dating).

Employment

  • Senior Software Engineer | Technical Team Lead

    2017 - 2020
    Foo.ag | Financial Engineering
    • Created and fully integrated a continuous integration system containing unit, database, user acceptance tests, deployment tools for the quality assurance team, and automated code style reviews on each pull request.
    • Designed and developed critical business units like pre-investment cost prognosis calculation and annual account statements.
    • Directed and led the software development for a team of six developers, which included coordination with other teams to optimize the overall companies software quality and processes.
    Technologies: Bash, Unix, MacOS, Jenkins, Groovy, Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, PHP
  • Lead Developer

    2017 - 2017
    Caterwings
    • Led a cross-functional IT development team including QA, frontend, backend, BI, and database engineers.
    • Analyzed and optimized all business processes, automized repetitive and ongoing tasks.
    • Planned and coordinated the new architecture of IT stack in PHP 7.1, PostgreSQL, and Phalcon Framework.
    • Maintained the old legacy stack in PHP 5.6, MySQL, and Symfony2 as well as started the migration to the new architecture.
    Technologies: Symfony, PhalconPHP, Bash, Unix, MacOS, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, MySQL, JavaScript, Python, PHP
  • Lead Developer

    2015 - 2017
    Carspring Services GmbH
    • Jumped into the project as the interim CTO and took over a team of six engineers.
    • Introduced BI into the tech stack along with designing dashboards and defining their business requirements.
    • Designed and implemented a fully autonomous marketing automation XML feed based on Facebook and Google marketing.
    • Integrated with more than 25 third-party REST/JSON and Soap/XML APIs for data flows (import and exports).
    Technologies: Symfony, PhalconPHP, Bash, Unix, MacOS, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, MySQL, JavaScript, Python, PHP

Experience

  • Technology and Development Transfer from Germany to South East Asia

    I handled the project and software development migration from Berlin to Singapore, which included building up and training the IT department and working as a consultant to ensure common best practices were applied. We brought the code and knowledge to Singapore and the technology culture as well.

  • Bootstrapping Lendico Germany
    http://www.lendico.de

    I handled this project from scratch to delivery in three months. This included planning, developing, and launching the peer-to-peer credit platform Lendico Germany. Lendico was an enormously successful venture under the accelerator Rocket Internet and was later sold to ING bank.

Skills

  • Languages

    PHP, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, PHP 7, XML, Python, Java, C, C++, C#, UML, CSS, Groovy, Bash
  • Tools

    PhpStorm, Git, Subversion (SVN), Jira, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, Slack, Optimizely, Visual Website Optimizer, Adobe Target, JetBrains, Atlassian, Google Analytics
  • Other

    OOP Designs, Back-end Development, Domains & Hosting, eCommerce, SOAP, People Management, Bots, Scraping, Web Crawlers, A/B Testing, Multivariate Testing, APIs, Server Administration, Coaching, Business Coaching
  • Frameworks

    Symfony, PHPUnit, Codeception, Selenium, Symfony 2, PhalconPHP, Yii, Zend Framework
  • Libraries/APIs

    jQuery, FPDF
  • Paradigms

    Agile Software Development, Agile, REST, Management
  • Platforms

    MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Unix
  • Storage

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, Redis, Elasticsearch, JSON, JSON/XML Schemas, Databases
  • Industry Expertise

    IT Security

Education

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science and Media
    2010 - 2012
    Beuth University of Applied Science (TFH) - Berlin, Germany

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