Curriculum vitae

I’m immensely curious and love to collaborate and share insights with others. I’ve been effective at leveling up engineering teams both in mentoring and supporting my peers and in developing quality solutions where others struggle. My excitement and joy on software is catching and has been beneficial in forming teams and a culture of growth and learning.

I excel at reconciling multiple difficult constraints in creative ways. I find joy in using my skillset to shape software beyond tickets and influence development across teams.

I have more than 10 years of professional experience and and more than 25 years of personal interest in the field.

I’m interested in shared ownership of software and services through collaboration with other stakeholders. I desire to pursue this as a staff engineer or technical lead embedded in one or more teams.

A diverse, kind, competent team

I’m convinced that diverse teams are better. Certainly growth and learning works better with kind people. I aim for high quality myself and I expect others to do so, too.

A chance to have an impact

I care deeply about my work and I want to see my traces in it. I’ve left a mark in team and company cultures before and I want to do that again.

I desire to shape software beyond ticket-to-ticket work, to follow larger agendas and to mentor and support my peers doing so.

Competitive pay

I bring lots of experience and care deeply about the work I do. I uplift others and value my time. Naturally I work at companies that value their employees fittingly.

Hybrid or remote

I’m based in Leipzig, Germany. I’m generally happy to work in an office, but will likely not move to a different place for extended time.

I believe that flexible work arrangements may increase the load on social aspects, but that they also aid async work flows, the reduction of meetings and a transparent, clear communication and documentation style.

I have a depth of expertise around the full stack of web technologies. I’ve done everything from network diagnostics and server maintenance to CSS and font adjustments.

In addition my interests took me to far corners such as

• userspace filesystems
• shader programming
• ISO standards
• robotics

I feel at home with cross cutting concerns such as aspects of distributed systems or software security. I’ve repeatedly mentored whole teams on these and similar topics.

Over the last years most of my software was written in TypeScript, Python, PHP and Go. I’d be particularly fond of writing more Rust. I frequently learn new programming languages as part of my self-directed learning efforts and personal projects.