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Lead of leads role(20% individual contributor)• Established and expanded rapport with 5 team leads (*) CEO, CTO and CPO (*) Three backend, one frontend and one infrastructure team• Supported 3 team leads in developing the first new project the company is creating under the direction of the current C-level management • Representing engineering of the company in executive meetings, summarizing the capabilities of all of it's teams for executive decisions and directing engineering focus• Conflict resolution in inter team conflicts• Translated deadlines and pressure into goals, facilitating creative solution finding of the backend team leads and their teams• Drove cost reduction of the infrastructure cost, jointly with our "Head of Infrastructure" - Substantially reduced cost and complexity by aligning stakeholders, and decide to successfully eliminate an entire Kubernetes (k8s) cluster from the tech landscape of the company.

Team-Lead of a Java/Kotlin team of 4 senior developers(40% being an individual contributor)The team owned, and owns, the authentication, video on demand and transcoding capabilities of a B2B enterprise video platform• Led and supported the team through a replacement of the C-Level management and large scale restructuring of the company• Established rapport with the new management and helped them understand the technical situation of the team's area of ownership - Supporting the CTO in setting priorities and selecting tech debt to be cleared• Carried motivation over more than a year until the tech debt clearing goals were achieved• Successfully partnered with Intel engineers and optimized the video encoding of the enterprise video platform - Halved encoding time, and reduced the budget• Supported efforts in peer teams to increase reliability of the Webcast product of the enterprise video platform - Analyzed and found root causes for stability challenges. Preventing further incidents stemming from resource constraints

B2B / SaaS Monolith | Java 8, Groovy, Spock, Gradle, Spring, RESTful API + Services, Micronaut, Docker-Compose, React, Typescript, Angular 2, Wicket | GCloud: App Engine, Compute Engine, Datastore, Big Query, Cloud Storage, Cloud TasksTeam-Lead for a team of 3-4 full stack developers in addition to contributing as a senior developer:• Led the team through the re-implementation of one of the core application modules.• Regular participation in strategic meetings with c-level executives, shaping company wide initiatives and relaying them to our team.• Overhauled the build and deployment pipeline. Increased throughput of the deployment-cycle by 50-80%.• Introduced the GCloud Memory Store, Redis, as the primary back end cache, paired it with Spring Caching and replaced legacy cache implementations.• Collaborated with Head of Sales- and Head of Customer Success to convert, onboard a-list customers and prevent their churning.

Senior developer in a team of 4Java 6 / Spring-MVC / Spring-Security / Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana / GCloud: CoreOS, App Engine, Compute Engine, Load Balancing, HAProxy

B2C / Real estate search engineGrails, Groovy, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Angular 2 | Agile-Development: SCRUM, Kanban and TDDJava veveloper in a team of 4- Implemented features for a greenfield project that successfully allowed the company to enter the Austrian market.

B2C / e-commerceJava 5 / PostgreSQL / Stripes framework / jQueryImplemented features for the back-office administration tool of the marketplace. Successfully resolving critical performance issues.

Java / JSP / JSF / Hibernate / Hibernate-Search / OracleDBImplemented features for intranet applications of airline companies.