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Torben Möller, DevOps and Software Developer in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Torben Möller

DevOps and Software Developer in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Member since April 9, 2021
Torben is a multi-cloud DevOps engineer and solution architect with more than ten 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.
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Portfolio

Experience

Location

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Windows, IntelliJ, 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.

Employment

  • Senior Consultant

    2019 - 2021
    Deloitte
    • Led a team of 13 people in developing and deploying a software product on GCP in under six months for a bank by using serverless microservice architecture and DevOps principles. This was the fastest go-live of a cloud system for this customer.
    • Proposed over 50 improvements to the SaaS ecosystem of a central bank by inventing and performing a SaaS review catalog.
    • Trained over 50 people in DevOps basics by creating and performing the Deloitte DevOps bootcamp.
    Technologies: Cloud Architecture, Java, Spring, DevOps, Scrum

  • IT Consultant

    2015 - 2019
    ITech Progress GmbH
    • Led a team of ten people in developing and maintaining a software solution for data exchange between government agencies, which supported the integration of over 5,000 refugees and asylum seekers into the German society.
    • Improved lead time by 86% by implementing DevOps practices into the development process.
    • Reduced change fail percentage by 72% through automation and standardization of the delivery process with Jenkins and Maven.
    Technologies: Java, Java EE, Jenkins

  • Research Scientist

    2014 - 2015
    University of Mannheim
    • Published paper "fundamental realization strategies for multi-view specification environments".
    • Maximized use of renewable energies by researching energy adaptive data centers in a smart city (research project DC4Cities of the EU).
    • Published paper "increasing data center renewable power share via intelligent smart city power control".
    Technologies: Spring, Java, Angular, TypeScript

  • Software Engineer | Student

    2009 - 2012
    VEGA Grieshaber KG
    • Cut costs by 60% of the creation of quality certificates by analyzing and automating business processes.
    • Mentored five new trainees by giving support during onboarding and helping in software development.
    • Automated the gathering, merging, and duplicate removal of customer contact information in Microsoft Exchange. The data was then used to send out Christmas cards and presents.
    Technologies: .NET, C#, Visual Studio, Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Experience

  • Customer Risk Scoring

    A serverless application for calculating the risk level of customers. Risk evaluation is necessary to prevent money laundering, terrorism financing, human trafficking, and organized crime. My primary responsibility was the architecture of this project, and I also helped with back-end development and DevOps.

  • Supply Chain Management

    An integration of a new supply chain management software. The solution uses a microservice architecture with Kubernetes and Kafka.

    As a scrum master, I supported in working out over 100 improvements of the project process and inter-team communication.

  • Refugee Data Exchange

    A Java EE-based data exchange solution between government agencies. The solution supported the integration of over 5,000 refugees and was used as a template for other projects.

    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/Schmoeker

    Schmöker is an app to subscribe to your favorite web feeds. It supports the most common web formats like RSS and Atom. It lets you manage your web feeds easily. It was the final project for my Udacity Nanodegree sponsored by Google.

  • SaaS Review

    A SaaS review catalog based upon ISO 25000 and other software quality frameworks. The review was conducted at a bank and resulted in over 50 proposed improvements. I was the inventor and conductor of this review. The catalog became a new Deloitte asset and was used in multiple proposals.

Skills

  • Languages

    Java, SQL, Python, TypeScript, C#, Java 8, Java 11

  • Frameworks

    Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Microservice, .NET, Hibernate, Angular, Selenium, Spring Security, Spring JDBC, JPA

  • Paradigms

    DevOps, Scrum, Serverless Architecture, Agile, Agile Workflow, Agile Software Development, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Design Thinking, ITIL, REST, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD)

  • Platforms

    Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Android, Java EE, Docker, Windows, Nexus, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle, Linux, Apache Kafka, Azure

  • Other

    Cloud Architecture, AWS, Software Architecture, Serverless, CI/CD Pipelines, Message Queues, Architecture, Containers, RESTful Microservices, Scrum Master, Supply Chain, ITIL V3 Foundation Certified, Google Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, ISO 25000, AWS Well-Architected Framework, SaaS, ISO/IEC 9126, Architecture Review, System Design and Development, Business Engineering, WebLogic, DevOps Engineer, SSL Certificates, ECS, AWS RDS, Relational Database Services (RDS), RESTful APIs, 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

  • Tools

    Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Maven, Terraform, IntelliJ, Git, Gradle, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Visual Studio, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, GitHub, Amazon SQS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS ECS, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon EKS, ELK (Elastic Stack), Kibana, Logstash, Kafka Streams

  • Storage

    PostgreSQL, Google Cloud SQL, SQLite, Spring Data JPA, Google Cloud, Elasticsearch

  • Libraries/APIs

    REST APIs, Spring REST

Education

  • Master's Degree in Master of Science
    2012 - 2014
    University of Mannheim - Mannheim, Germany
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Informatics
    2009 - 2012
    Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) - Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
    JANUARY 2022 - PRESENT
    Microsoft
  • Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
    MARCH 2021 - PRESENT
    Google
  • Professional Cloud Architect
    MARCH 2021 - PRESENT
    Google
  • Associate Cloud Engineer
    JULY 2020 - PRESENT
    Google
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
    JUNE 2020 - PRESENT
    Amazon Web Services
  • Certified Scrum Master
    MAY 2020 - PRESENT
    Scrum Alliance
  • DELMIA Quintiq Supply Chain Planning – Technical Consultant
    FEBRUARY 2020 - PRESENT
    Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes Company
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
    FEBRUARY 2019 - PRESENT
    Amazon Web Services
  • Android Developer Nanodegree
    AUGUST 2018 - PRESENT
    Udacity
  • Certified Professional for Software Architecture – Foundation Level
    OCTOBER 2015 - PRESENT
    ISAQB
  • Developing Software Using Design Thinking
    DECEMBER 2013 - PRESENT
    SAP
  • ITIL v3 Foundation
    MARCH 2012 - PRESENT
    TÜV SÜD
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
    APRIL 2011 - PRESENT
    Pearson

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