Experience

Leading engineering for an employee-wellbeing platform used by hundreds of German companies. My work spans reliability, infrastructure, integrations, analytics, and AI.

• Improved frontend and Django performance, shortened startup and CI feedback loops, and reduced infrastructure costs.
• Reworked analytics with reporting models, scheduled refreshes, and indexing, and moved Metabase to a faster, lower-cost setup.
• Built a video pipeline with AWS MediaConvert, Lambda, and CloudFront, turning live events into searchable recordings.
• Built a deployment pipeline that turns LLM prompt changes into repeatable assistant releases.

Owned backend systems for heating-system offers and field workflows, serving hundreds of technicians and thousands of customers.

• Built the Salesforce integration from scratch in under three months, and a bidirectional sync service for Salesforce and Close.com.
• Introduced decision notes, post-mortems, and regular maintenance practices.
• Maintained automated test coverage and kept internal and external dependencies up to date.
• Built a Slack feedback bot and an incident monitoring tool for third-party services.

Built the website and forum for an indie MMORPG prototype with an international team.

Built websites and web services for clients, including the backend for the Boostframe crowdfunding platform and a food-delivery website and CRM.

Developed API libraries and automations for Yandex.Direct and Mail.Ru Target integrations.

Managed corporate antivirus, antispam, and Windows security and Group Policy settings in an organization with tens of thousands of users.

Maintaining a Django fixture library with 1.4M+ monthly downloads, listed in the official Django ecosystem.

Engineer’s degree. Thesis on corporate network security infrastructure.