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* Supported organization-wide cloud migration strategy (GCP, AWS)* Consulted engineering leadership on Observability improvements, Vendor conversations* Mentoring and knowledge sharing

* Designed/implemented a novel authentication method to integrate Google-issued credentials with on-premise Kubernetes clusters* Observability improvements to SoundCloud's Microservice architecture* Led Postmortem process, SRE practice onboarding for developers

* Established a dedicated team to own Authentication and Authorization for the Platform* Interfaced with Security and T&S teams to ensure safe and secure user access at SoundCloud* Led implementation of new authentication schemes, i.e. Sign-in with Apple

* Improved reliability of micro-service integrations and cycle time for iterating on changes by driving the adoption of Twirp, a Protobuf based RPC protocol.* Lead an initiative to consolidate the software stack used by most services at SoundCloud, allowing cross-cutting changes to be rolled out in days instead of months.* Supported work to improve the backend hiring process.* Supported team members during COVID outbreak and change to remote work environment

* Drove a re-architecture of the search indexing pipeline that reduced the time for frequent maintenance operations from several days to a few hours.* Optimized Elasticsearch cluster setup to reduce search latency by more than half.* Reduced outages and improved reliability of search by adopting a novel load-balancing architecture.Created and maintained the shared library for all Golang microservices at SoundCloud.

* Helped scale email infrastructure to handle several million transactional and campaign emails per day.* Drove the adoption of dashboards for monitoring service and build system health.* Reduced latency of merchant backend API and simplified API development by introducing async request handling via RxJava.

Integration Engineer. - Lead developer for the Git integration in CollabNet TeamForge- Designed and built connectors and integrations of third party tools with CollabNet ALM tools (TeamForge, ScrumWorks Pro)- Open-source community interaction.

Member of the scientific staff (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”) in the secure eIdentity division. Research topics: the new German eID card, user-centric identity management, privacy.

Student research assistant in the Competence Center Electronic Government and Applications (CC-ELAN) with a focus on identity management and interoperability.

Student internship in the requirements engineering and system test departments for the electronic engine control unit.

System administrator at the Institute for English Language and Literature.