Experience

Trade Republic

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Berlin, Germany * Took over management responsibilities after my manager was promoted * Grew scope from 5 to 19 engineers across two teams * Took over responsibilities as the group lead * Responsible for weekly 1-1s, quarterly performance reviews, and staffing strategy. High team morale, meaningful managerial relationships, and strong reputation for performance within the company. * Cooperated on key product, technical, and organizational decisions with group and company leaders

• Staff Engineer

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Berlin, Germany * Founding engineer on a greenfield, company-central product * Led the team in architecture, team-building, and delivery (Kotlin, Postgres, Spring, RabbitMQ, K8S, AWS) * Designed and operated a high-performing development process. Consistently hit ambitious quarterly goals. * Key player in company-critical architectural initiatives * Founding lead for the backend guild of almost 100 engineers



Back

• Germany
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• (Senior) Software Engineer

  • Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

  Berlin, Germany I led tech for a large number of features for an early-stage B2B startup. Big sellers include Single Sign-On, our Asynchronous Notification system, our user-facing Analytics page, and extending our in-house Workflow engine to support concurrency. My main focus was on delivering features quickly and cleanly in pursuit of product-market fit. I was additionally very active in product, delivery, and team spirit. Back was acquired by Personio a few months after I left. Technologies:… Show more I led tech for a large number of features for an early-stage B2B startup. Big sellers include Single Sign-On, our Asynchronous Notification system, our user-facing Analytics page, and extending our in-house Workflow engine to support concurrency. My main focus was on delivering features quickly and cleanly in pursuit of product-market fit. I was additionally very active in product, delivery, and team spirit. Back was acquired by Personio a few months after I left. Technologies: Golang, Typescript, GraphQL, React, Postgres, AWS Show less



OLX

• Netherlands
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2019 - Aug 2020

  Berlin Area, Germany At OLX, we built a C2C "Pay & Ship" solution for the Polish marketplace. I was the lead backend engineer from the start of the project, responsible for designing the architecture, implementing it on a deadline, and leading the team through various ups and downs. We built microservices in Kotlin on top of AWS. Our solution was event-driven, incorporating CQRS, event-sourcing, pub-sub, and task queues to support a scalable and extensible product.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2015 - Mar 2018

  Mountain View, CA July '16 - Winter '16: Backend + Android engineer for Google Spaces Spring '17 - Spring '18: Android engineer for Hangouts Chat Learned to design, develop, and lead within a large organization. Specific areas include application architecture, release engineering, developer tooling, and testing infrastructure.



Kifi

• Software Engineer

  • May 2015 - Jul 2016

  Mountain View, CA Kifi was a knowledge-sharing tool for small teams, acquired by Google in 2016. Learned to think and build as a full-stack engineer on a small, talented team. Delivered features from start to finish across Angular, Scala, and MySQL.



University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Feb 2013 - Dec 2013

  The Moore Accuracy Lab studies overconfidence: the prevalent tendency for people to think they are more accurate than they actually are. Details: learnmoore.org/research.html I was a lead research assistant there, presenting research synthesis to the team and pioneering record-breaking recruitment protocols for our studies.



NASA Ames Research Center

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - Aug 2012

  Cognitive Science lab Independently facilitated cognitive psychology research by recruiting/scheduling subjects, conducting experiments, and proofreading papers. Pioneered the use of cloud software to schedule subjects.