Professional experience
Engineering Lead
MessengerPeople
Jan 2020 – todayAs the project lead of the Unified Messaging API, I’m product owner, core contributor and coordinate sales and marketing decisions across the company. Originally, I built the system from scratch in tandem with our CTO @MaxTietz, taking care to design a fully scalable automation solution.
Over time, I have worked on several interesting projects here.
Software Engineer
MessengerPeople
Aug 2018 – Jan 2020As a software engineer, I was working on a multitude of projects, including things like the most complex chatbot we ever built, bringing modern PHP to existing applications or slowly migrating the entire tech stack to Kubernetes.
Systems Administrator
Boxhorn-EDV
Mar 2015 – Jul 2018After my apprenticeship, I worked as a sysadmin for three years, gathering extensive experience with technical requirements of small to medium businesses. During that time, I got my hands on almost all parts of IT: Local networks, VPNs, OS and software management, huge Wi-Fi deployments, telephone systems, server rack assembly, monitoring and maintenance, tools research, medical appliances - the list could go on.
I consider myself fairly confident with almost any kind of technology.
Education
Apprenticeship Systems Administration
Boxhorn-EDV
Sep 2012 – Feb 2015Abitur
Siebold-Gymnasium Würzburg
Jun 2012Open Source Commitment
In my spare time, I really enjoy working on open source projects, too. Coding, or solving problems in general, is something I am deeply passionate about. I have catered to this need over the years by contributing to lots of different open source projects.
Core Member
Anchor CMS
Mar 2013 – todayAnchor CMS is a minimalistic content management system with a focus on simplicity and expandability. While teaching myself PHP, I came in contact with the core team and ultimately joined them.