Full-stack software developer, living in Hamburg, Germany. Have done loads of front-end over the years. Recently doing a lot of backend-middleware as well as designing/architecting systems with reliability & speed in mind. Proficient with client-side JavaScript; Frameworks like React, Angular and server-side NodeJS. Have started multiple use-case specific codebases utilising standard patterns and practices. Takes maintainability, testability and reliability engineering seriously. Has some experience in optimising performance in client-side and server-side projects. Able to understand and takes ownership of existing code quickly. Experienced with Docker and related containerisation, orchestration systems, application infrastructures etc. Also writes PHP. Have written software with Python, Ruby (on Rails), Clojure, Java in the past. Delves into Scala and Clojure and related JVM based technologies in off time. Enthusiastic about data-intensive applications, reactive/functional programming, delivering business value while maintaining quality and reliability, working in high functioning engineering teams. Getting better at time management and increasing development throughput one ticket at a time. ©