Position: Tech Lead / Senior Software Architect
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

Successfully realized projects for:
- Daimler
- BMW
- Luxembourg Ministère de l'Agriculture, de la Viticulture et du Développement rural
- Deutsche Bundesbank
- UniCredit
- BNP Paribas 
- DHL
- o2/Telefonica
- Vodafone
- BASF
- Deutsche Bahn
As a freelance IT consultant, I have more than twenty years of experience in the inception and development of highly scalable software systems serving dozens of blue-chip EU based companies with the most valuable solutions.
 
My technical expertise in the architecture of Cloud-Native distributed systems - and much, much more - are backed by strong communication and presentation skills, domain knowledge in diverse business sectors, and outstanding analytical drive.

Main points of experience:
	Technical management, team leadership, coaching, controlling
	Very good practical knowledge of distributed nearshore and offshore teams technical management
	Project planning, risk management, conflict management
	Requirement analysis, mapping of technical requirements to enterprise landscapes
	Customer consulting in questions of distributed systems, component-based software, security and data analytics
	Customer consulting in questions: internet-portals, web-scalability and performance-tuning
	Writing of conceptions and specifications, quality assurance
	Strong presentation, facilitation and communication skills 
	Very good knowledge in agile project management, Scrum Master, PSM I certified  
	Customer presentations, workshops in architectures of the distributed systems
	Very good knowledge of Cloud-Native Apps: DevOps, CI/CD, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS 
	Long time-proven experience in design and implementation of large scale Java SE/J2EE/JEE applications 
	Very good knowledge of functional programming and JVM ecosystem possibilities, Scala/ScalaTest, creation of projects DSL, design and patterns
	Good practical experience in Hadoop ecosystem solution design and development: HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Kafka
	Certification and practical experience in arias of Machine Learning and Deep Learning: Python, R, NLP, TensorFlow, Keras, clustering and recommendation algorithms
	Excellent knowledge in RDBMS & NoSQL modeling and performance tuning techniques 
	Very good knowledge of In-Memory-Computing and related products
	Excellent knowledge of NoSQL Apache Cassandra, holding of Apache Cassandra seminars mainly for corporate customers (beginners, intermediate and advanced levels)
	Good knowledge of security standards, intrusion prevention, OAuth2, OIDC, Keykloak
	Writing as a computer scientist in computer newspapers
Working on cutting edge technological projects, preferably for DAH region-based customers, where my fluent German and knowledge of business processes could bring additional synergy to the stakeholders.