Hi, I'm Stefan!

Technical leader with more than 12 years of experience developing software. I focus on providing scalable APIs for data driven applications with millions of data points. Staying in touch with recent technology and trends in the industry.

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer

kleinanzeigen GmbH / Adevinta

2022 - Present

Kleinanzeigen reaches the majority of German internet users.
It operates its platform on a massive scale to support millions of live items and a peak traffic of multiple 10.000 requests per second.

Backend Engineer for PRO, developing solutions for paying commercial users
Quota management app for global platform
Migrating an app for user outreach to a new global platform
New solution to integrate PRO user ads in search result page
Add user type choice to the registration flow to pin users to be either private or commercial
Kubernetes migration of microservices
Documenting APIs with openapi

Principal Backend Engineer

2021

Senior Backend Engineer

Uberall

2018 - 2021

Uberall is a SaaS company improving online visibility for brands. They do market leading research on consumer behavior and enable businesses to have a industry leading 'Near Me' brand experience in a single App by integrating hundreads of third-party services.

Backend Lead for Insights
Responsible for full lifecycle of Uberalls Advanced Analytics product
Concepting architecture and business domain modeling for smart-conversations microservice
3rd party API integration (Google, Facebook, ...)
Design and implementation of restful APIs with Grails and Micronaut
Long term planning about technical landscape
Former squad captain for a team of 9 engineers
Recruitment of other backend devs

Software Developer

Brüder Schlau

2016 - 2018

Brüder Schlau is a company group specialized in interior design with separate brands for retail and wholesale. They offer their products and services online and at more than 250 locations.

Co-project management for e-commerce solution
Collaborating with devs from an agency
Groovy data exports
Inhouse administration and consultation for JIRA and Conflunce

Software Developer

T-Systems

2011 - 2016

T-Systems is an international IT services and consulting company for the B2B market.

Developing document management system for state government
Android prototype for patient management in hospitals
Web apps for event organizer

Education

IT specialist software development

Deutsche Telekom

2008 - 2011

Projects

Woofles (Spring Boot, Java)

Bookmark directory that can be filtered with tags. Meant to serve as a private substitute after del.icio.us was shut down.

Intercise (React, JavaScript)

Timer for workout routines with customizable times for work and break periods.

Various

Self hosting Bitwarden, Nextcloud, Emby and static websites on Raspberry Pi's.

Frameworks

Spring Boot
Micronaut
Grails

Programming

Java
SQL
Kotlin
Groovy

Other tech

Git
APIs
TDD
MySQL
Elasticsearch
Redis
Kafka
Docker
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Kibana
Datadog
OpenAPI
RabbitMQ
nginx
gRPC
S3
IAM
QuickSight

Languages

German (Native)
English (Professional)

Hobbies

Fitness (HIIT, bodyweight workouts)
Documentaries (climate change, nutrition, tech)
Podcasts (engineering, economy, politics)
Enjoying nature, gardening

Stefan Remer