About Me

Hello,

I am Mike, a senior software engineer living in Berlin, Germany.

I have a degree in computer science with a minor in Usability engeneering from Humboldt Universiät zu Berlin. Currently, I work mostly on an SQL, Python, Angular stack and occasionally talk about software engineering.

Skills

• Communicativity
• Ability to change my perspective
• Analytical thinking
• Making decisions
• Pragmatism
• Stress resilience
• Fluent in English and German.

Experiences

• Professional software development since 2001 in several
  • quick and small projects,
  • big projects (60+ developers across time zones),
  • long running projects (10+ years and still running),
  • across technology fields,
  • with different project management methodologies
• Talks, workshops, presentations
  • Internal and
  • External

Technologies

Languages and Frameworks

• Java
  • Spring, Hibernate, MyBatis
  • Tomcat, Lucene, Solr
  • Magnolia CMS, Adobe Experience Manager
  • JUnit
• Python
  • Flask, SQL-Alchemy, Pandas
• .NET / C# (not so much anymore)
• Web
  • JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, jQuery, NodeJS
  • CSS, LESS, SASS
  • am-Charts, ag-Grid
  • ( once PHP but I never mention that, ever 😉 )
• Database
  • Oracle
  • several In-Memory databases
• VCS
  • Git
  • (Subversion, not so much anymore)
  • well founded dislike for Perforce

Other fields of interest and technologies

• System- and Software architecture
• Solid understanding of computer networks and their protocols
• Performance and System correctness
• Usability engineering and evaluation

Environments

• Operating systems
  • Linux, Mac OS, Windows 7
• Preferred IDE
  • IntellJ IDEA, Vim
  • Eclipse (not so much anymore)