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13+ years in software engineering — started in game dev, now building backend services in Go, wiring up cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS, and keeping things running with Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD. Based in Hamburg — open to remote. Also on LinkedIn. Download PDF.

Experience #

Senior Software Architect — FINEXITY #

Aug 2023 – Present · Hamburg

  • Broke the KYC domain out of a monolith into its own microservice — new REST API, new provider, 50% cut in operational costs
  • Built a payment gateway client in Go with SCA for MangoPay
  • Brought in Terraform for all cloud provisioning (it wasn’t there before)
  • Tightened up CI/CD — faster builds, lower costs, added secret scanning
  • Moved async API calls to Pub/Sub to get rid of latency issues

Senior Software Engineer — Herewith #

Jan 2019 – Jun 2023 · Hamburg

  • Built backend services in Go (REST, WebSockets) for a real-time communication platform
  • Ran the AWS infrastructure — Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, the whole stack
  • Led a project to add monitoring to a healthcare app that badly needed it
  • Built an Android app with offline maps and custom AOSP image tooling — one of the weirder projects I’ve done

Software Engineer — Fraunhofer IPA #

Jun 2017 – Dec 2018 · Stuttgart

  • Built AR apps for Microsoft HoloLens (Unity3D, C#) used in factory planning

Software Developer — Bosch #

Apr 2016 – Dec 2017 · Leonberg

  • Worked on the Automated Valet Parking project — built a parking control app in C++/Qt and a real-time video streaming feed from car cameras

Software Engineer — Tintash #

Jul 2013 – Sep 2015 · Lahore, Pakistan

  • Built cross-platform mobile games in C++ and Cocos2dx — including titles in the Stick Cricket series
  • Developed HTML5 edutainment games using Construct 2

Associate Software Engineer — FiveRivers Technologies #

Jun 2012 – Jul 2013 · Lahore, Pakistan

  • Built cross-platform motorsports games in C++ using the Marmalade SDK for iOS, Android, and Blackberry
  • Handled client-side database design and contributed to MMO game maintenance

Education #

University of Stuttgart #

MSc Information Technology · 2015 – 2018

Also did a short research gig here — built eye-tracking data pipelines in Python for a peer programming study.

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences #

BSc Telecommunications Engineering · 2008 – 2012

Bronze medal — 3rd in class.

Skills #

Day to day: Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Cloudflare

Architecture: Microservices, event-driven systems, REST APIs, Pub/Sub

Practices: CI/CD, DevSecOps, IaC, system design

Have also used: Flutter/Dart, Python, Java, C++, Android (AOSP)

Languages #

  • English — Fluent
  • German — Getting there