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I'm passionate about building scalable, reliable and understandable distributed systems. My main focus is around data-intensive microservices, event-driven architectures, pub-sub systems and cloud-native, geo-distributed databases. I've experienced the challenges of designing large-scale, distributed systems for over 10 years in different roles as senior developer, tech lead and architect. I enjoy to explore and learn new things in this space and trying to finding simple solutions to increasingly complex problems. My business domain knowledge is centered around online gaming, finance, payments, travel, retail and logistics.In recent years I've been the lead enterprise architect for a technical innovation and transformation program at Kindred, targeting to deliver a globally scalable, datacenter-failure resilient service platform for an international customer market. This program outlined the technical strategy for increasing business agility, availability and scalability by geographically distributing the technical platform closer to customer markets world-wide. Key experiences and abilities:- Development of highly scalable, distributed and data-intensive systems for different business domains.- Strong communicator with ability to guide and influence engineering teams and business stakeholders.- High attention to detail and system quality attributes.- Strong understanding of modern infrastructure and data distribution technologies.- Expertise in server-side Java development using Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, Maven, Solace JMS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Couchbase and CockroachDB.

Listed skills include Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Git, Software Development, and 4 others.