Resume

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

    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