
Torben Möller
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Nuremberg, Germany
Toptal member since December 7, 2021
Torben is a multi-cloud DevOps engineer and solution architect with more than 10 years of professional experience. He delivers high-quality systems fast and improves them incrementally, always keeping skills and knowledge up to date. Torben has multiple certifications, including GCP Professional Cloud Architect, GCP DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, and Scrum Master.
Portfolio
Experience
- Java - 15 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 10 years
- Cloud Architecture - 10 years
- Software Architecture - 10 years
- Scrum - 10 years
- Spring - 8 years
- DevOps - 8 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows, IntelliJ IDEA, Java, Spring, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Serverless
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is a data exchange system for a German government agency. This system supported the integration process of over 5,000 refugees.
Work Experience
IT Architect | VP of Engineering
Mostly AI
- Recommended 17 improvements to the software engineering process and architecture covering DevOps, Agile, and organizational best practices.
- Created an OpenAPI specification to increase customer reach by 30%.
- Taught C-level management Agile and DevOps best practices for further improvement.
Software Architect | Lead Developer
Hospitality Digital
- Increased the net promoter score by over 25 points by reducing customer pain points and technical debt.
- Cut latencies by 85% and increased server throughput by over 600% by optimizing business processes, reworking architecture, and removing database locks.
- Reduced mean time to detect errors by 90% through detailed monitoring and alerting.
Senior Consultant | Software Architect
Deloitte
- Architected, developed, and deployed three cloud-based industry and banking applications.
- Led a team of 13 people in developing a software product on the GCP in under six months. This was the fastest go-live of a cloud system for this customer.
- Proposed over 50 improvements to a bank's ecosystem by presenting and performing a SaaS review.
- Created a DevOps fundamentals course and trained over 50 people.
IT Architect | Consultant
ITech Progress
- Architected and developed four data exchange solutions for government agencies, reducing cycle time by 95% and business costs by 90%.
- Implemented DevOps best practices into a software development process to reduce the effort for release and deployment by 85%.
- Reduced change fail percentage by 72% through the automation and standardization of the delivery process with Jenkins and Maven.
Research Scientist
University of Mannheim
- Worked on an EU research project, DC4Cities, about eco-efficient software engineering with a focus on cost estimation, requirement engineering, and software modeling.
- Published a paper titled Fundamental Realization Strategies for Multi-view Specification Environments.
- Published another paper titled Increasing Data Center Renewable Power Share via Intelligent Smart City Power Control.
Software Engineer | Student
VEGA Grieshaber
- Reduced process costs by 60% by analyzing and automating business processes for quality certifications.
- Mentored five new trainees by giving support during onboarding and helping with software development.
- Automated the gathering, merging, and duplicate removal of customer contact information in Microsoft Exchange. The data was then used to send Christmas cards and presents.
Experience
Dish Reservation
https://reservation.dish.co/Integrations with tools like Google Maps maximize customer reach. With DDD and customer needs in mind, I decomposed the monolithic application into independently deployable microservices. I taught a team of 10 people DevOps and Team Topologies principles to reduce time to market and cycle time. Additionally, to implement new features, I refactored the Java codebase to split the old JSP front end and enable the migration for a React-based redesign. This way, I helped reduce system latencies by 85%, leading to faster response times for both restaurateurs and guests. Additionally, I decreased the mean time to detect errors by 90% through effective monitoring and alerting, ensuring the smooth operation of the tool.
These improvements resulted in increased customer satisfaction, as evidenced by a net promoter score increase of over 25 points, reaching a new all-time high in customer satisfaction.
Customer Risk Scoring
SaaS Review
Refugee Data Exchange
I was the main architect and developer of this project. In the second half of the project, I used DevOps practices to reduce the change fail percentage by 72% and improved lead time by 86%.
Schmoeker
https://github.com/torbenmoeller/SchmoekerSupply Chain Management
Education
Master's Degree in Business Informatics
University of Mannheim - Mannheim, Germany
Bachelor's Degree in Business Informatics
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) - Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Database – Specialty
AWS
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Professional Cloud Architect
Associate Cloud Engineer
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
DELMIA Quintiq Supply Chain Planning – Technical Consultant
Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes Company
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Android Developer Nanodegree
Udacity
Certified Professional for Software Architecture – Foundation Level
ISAQB
Developing Software Using Design Thinking
SAP
ITIL v3 Foundation
TÜV SÜD
Microsoft Certified Professional
Pearson
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Spring REST, Google Maps, Google Maps API, React, Protobuf, OpenAPI, JPA 2
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Gradle, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Jira, Confluence, Apache Maven, Visual Studio, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Terraform, GitHub, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon EKS, ELK (Elastic Stack), Kibana, Logstash, Kafka Streams, Helm, Postman, Docker Compose, SonarQube, Azure Machine Learning, AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS ELB, Microsoft Visio, GitLab, WebStorm, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Fargate, TeamCity, Visio, Amazon Cognito
Languages
Java, Python, TypeScript, SQL, Java 8, Java 11, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SAML, C#, Kotlin
Frameworks
Spring, AWS Well-Architected Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Selenium, Spring Microservice, Spring Security, Spring JDBC, JPA, Google Protocol Buffer, Serverless Framework, .NET, Angular, AngularJS
Paradigms
DevOps, Scrum, Design Thinking, ITIL, Serverless Architecture, Agile, Agile Workflow, Agile Software Development, REST, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), Application Architecture, B2C, Mobile Development, API Architecture, CQRS
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java EE, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Apache Kafka, Amazon EC2, AWS NLB, AWS Lambda, Windows, Android, Nexus, Oracle, Azure, OpenShift, Mobile
Storage
PostgreSQL, Google Cloud SQL, Spring Data JPA, Google Cloud, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure SQL Databases, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Amazon Aurora, NoSQL, SQLite
Other
Cloud Architecture, Scrum Master, Supply Chain, Software Architecture, ITIL V3 Foundation Certified, Serverless, Containers, Google Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, ISO 25000, SaaS, ISO/IEC 9126, System Development, Business, CI/CD Pipelines, Message Queues, DevOps Engineer, ECS, Amazon RDS, Relational Database Services (RDS), Architecture, Spring Cloud, Spring Web Services, Solution Architecture, Technical Leadership, Software Development, APIs, Project Consultancy, Containerization, Orchestration, Container Orchestration, Authentication, Authorization, Single Sign-on (SSO), GitHub Actions, Build Pipelines, System Design, AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS DevOps, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Azure Data Lake, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Leadership, Software Design, Protocol Buffers, Load Balancers, Networks, Security, Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, Technical Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, WebLogic, SSL Certificates, RESTful Microservices, Web Applications, Programming, CTO, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Startups, Mobile UI, Mobile Apps, API Integration, Team Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, Software QA, Documentation, Electric Vehicles, Coaching, Advisory, Scalability
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