Knows about computers.
Experience
2025 — Now
2022 — 2025
2022 — 2025
Palo Alto, California, United States
Build & Platform Engineer specializing in large-scale monorepo build systems and release engineering for quantum-safe cryptography products. Key contributions include:
• Maintaining and optimizing Bazel build infrastructure for a polyglot monorepo (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, TypeScript)
• Designing container image build pipelines with deterministic, reproducible outputs and multi-registry distribution (ECR, GCR)
• Implementing automated release workflows that coordinate image tagging, artifact promotion, and deployment across environments
• Leading container security hardening through RapidFort base image migration and SBOM generation for supply chain compliance
• Building CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Aspect Workflows) with intelligent test selection, caching strategies, and parallelization
• Architecting Terraform and Helmfile-based deployment automation for multi-region customer rollouts
Technologies: Bazel, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, AWS (EKS, ECR, S3), CircleCI, Go, Java, Python, Kotlin
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
Staff software engineering at consumer fintech.
· lead org-wide transition to monorepo
· maintain CICD pipeline to ensure engineering velocity
· lead feature development projects
· trained & mentored new hires
· sourced senior engineering candidates
· TL for development tooling team
· used Clojure, CLJS, AWS, Bazel/Starlark, Git, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Github Actions, Re-frame
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
Working on software to support planning Google's data-center floor layout.
• service development with Python, Java, MySQL and countless Google technologies
• on-call support to internal customers
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
Conceived and built dining payment app:
• built backend and mobile app using Cloujure, Datomic and ClojureScript on React Native
• integrated with Stripe for payment
• developed NFC-based payment solution for restaurants
Education
Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences