Curriculum Vitae

• Address: Anselm Helbig, Kleibersteig 11, 14621 Schönwalde-Glien
• Phone: +49 178 3466577
• EMail: anselm@mnemonikk.org
• WWW: https://mnemonikk.org/
• Date of birth: Oct 27th 1973
• Place of birth: Wilhelmshaven
• Nationality: Deutsch

Objective

As a programmer and infrastructure engineer with 20 years of experience and holding a diploma in Biochemistry, I’m looking forward to help with your infrastructure, with refactoring legacy code, and technical and agile coaching. I focus on value and obsess over maintainability and agile principles.

Skills

Programming languages

• excellent: Ruby, Shell, SQL
• good: Python, JavaScript, PHP

Technologies

• Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch
• Infrastructure Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Chef, Salt, Puppet
• AWS: EC2, Lambda, S3, ELB, CloudWatch, CloudFront, ECS, Route53, IAM, SES, SQS, SNS, Systems Manager

Techniques

• Programming Paradigms: object oriented, functional
• Testing: BDD, TDD, End-to-End
• Collaboration: (remote) pair programming, mob programming, code reviews
• agile: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming

Languages

• German: native
• English: proficient
• French: basic

Work Experience

• MOTIONTAG GmbH
  Tech Lead Backend, 2019-10 – 2019-12
  CTO, 2018-04 – 2019-10
  Lead Architect, 2017-11 – 2018-04
  • Improved agile processes: introduced, ran and evolved standups and retrospectives, introduced videochat and mob programming, improved tickets and boards, created agile metrics.
  • Collaborated in tender and GDPR processes.
  • Implemented CI (Jenkins), password manager, Grafana, and centralized error reporting (Errbit).
  • Scaled up API from a single machine to a load-balanced EC2 cluster.
  • Built load testing for API (locust.io)
  • Improved monitoring (CloudWatch, Honeycomb.io).
  • Migrated high frequency events from relational DB to AWS data lake.
  • Streamlined technical onboarding.
  • Added registration via SMS.
• Movinga GmbH
  Lead Developer, 2017-01 – 2017-04
  • Organized regular coding dojos.
  • Organized sessions on development issues.
  • Implemented and facilitated incident review meetings.
  • Stabilized, monitored and extended legacy PHP infrastructure.
  • Planned infrastructure optimization.
  • Participated in recruiting: screening, interviews, creating technical challenges.
• Wimdu GmbH
  Lead Developer, 2015-04 – 2016-12
  Team Lead, 2013-10 – 2015-04
  Backend Developer, 2012-05 – 2015-04
  • Implemented self-learning ranking algorithm.
  • Continuously synchronized room availability with external sources.
  • Maintained and refactored the BI pipeline (Python, Pandas, MySQL).
  • Collaborated on infrastructure and deployment automation.
  • Refactored and extended payment logic.
• Mediapeers GmbH
  Fullstack Developer, 2008-01 – 2012-05
  • Implemented custom video conversion pipeline.
  • Implemented full text search, filter functionality; UI, frontend, backend (Sphinx search engine).
  • Added multitenancy support.
  • Set up and maintained self-hosted CI and version control systems.
  • Improved the deployment process.
  • Server maintenance.
• Aperto AG
  Systems Engineer, 2007-07 – 2008-01
  • Developed a custom backup solution.
  • Worked on deployment automation and performance optimization.
  • Unified Nagios monitoring setup for all client projects.
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Klipp Group
  Python Developer, 2006-11 – 2007-03
  • Created a combined database for metabolic reaction information (Python).
  • Created an online survey form (PHP).
  • Refactored and extended SBMLMerge tool (Python).

  Diploma Thesis, 2005-08 – 2006-11

  • “Modeling the TOR pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
• Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
  Systems Administrator and Web Developer, 2000-11 – 2007-07
  • Implement a document management system.
  • Implemented a generic online survey tool.
  • Created an authentication bridge to Novell NDS.

Formal Education

• FU BerlinDiploma in Biochemistry, 2007
• Cäcilienschule WilhelmshavenAbitur, 1993