Experience & Skills
Junior DevOps Engineer @ HomeToGo | Ex-Backend Engineer
Experience
Junior DevOps Engineer
CurrentSep 2025 — Present
- Manage Cloudflare DNS across all company domains and handle AWS infrastructure tasks to unblock development teams
- Perform Kubernetes operations including EKS cluster upgrades, Helm chart deployments, and cluster maintenance
- Maintain and improve infrastructure automation with Puppet and other configuration management tools
Backend Engineer
Nov 2022 — Sep 2025
- Built event-driven microservices using Kotlin and TypeScript with AWS Lambda, processing business events at scale
- Contributed to decomposing a PHP/Symfony monolith into independent microservices
- Collaborated on designing event-based architectures for core business workflows
QA Specialist
Nov 2021 — Oct 2022
- Established quality assurance processes and executed manual and automated testing across the platform
- Completed bachelor thesis using the ALEX tool to discover hard-to-find software bugs through machine learning
- Transitioned into backend engineering after building a strong foundation in software quality
Working Student in IT
Jul 2020 — Oct 2021
- Built a billing automation tool in VBA that reduced invoice processing time from days to hours
- Provided IT support for hundreds of remote employees globally
- Assisted with backend development tasks alongside core IT operations
Skills
Education
Abitur
Alsaade School, Gymnasium
2013 — 2014