Tech Lead/Software Engineer
Yelp
Tech Lead Yelp Partner API, Full Stack Software Engineer working on the multi-location partners team.
Left Yelp 09/2023 - 01/2025 for long distance hiking: hiked over 4,000km on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in the US, the Bibbulmun Track in Australia, the Pekoe Trail in Sri Lanka and extensively in Patagonia. Also traveled around Asia and Central- and South-America.
- Worked on various python services, the main monolith and the Yelp frontend. Worked on Yelp Knowledge, Public API, Partner APIs, the multi-location business site and various internal tooling for bulk handling multi location businesses.
- As a Tech Lead for Partner API, I was responsible for its roadmap, all related projects, planned and started a multi-year effort to drastically simplify Yelp’s Partner API infrastructure and increase developer productivity.
- Designed, lead and implemented various projects, utilizing different practices like scrum.
- As on-call investigated, coordinated and communicated incidents internally and externally.
- Mentored other engineers in the team, new joiners to the company, and participated on the company wide mentorship program as a mentor and mentee.
- Contributed to Yelp’s interview questions and interviewed candidates regularly in coding and system design interviews. Served as an interviewer trainer for new interviewers.
- As a first project I was the 2nd engineer on a project to create a V2 version of the internal bulk tooling. Lead bulk tooling projects for the next 1-2 years.
- Did various team coordination tasks, such as being selected to represent the team for process changed and creating technical project management guidelines.
02/2025 - present
09/2023 - 01/2025
Career Break
07/2019 - 08/2023
Python React JavaScript GraphQL Git Jenkins Flow Splunk MySQL Cassandra SQS PaaSTA
Consulting Developer
Avanade Deutschland GmbH (Joint Venture of Accenture & Microsoft)
Software development consultant designing and implementing software solutions within project teams on-site at different clients. Did full Stack development and DevOps in various projects.
- Implemented features by applying practices like agile, scrum and clean code
- Enabled the business to go from monthly to daily KPI’s with better data density by proposing, designing and implementing reporting and analytics services
- Build and maintained customer relationships by providing high quality of business analysis services and technical solutions
- Accelerated the speed and improved the robustness of the system by creating a CI/CD pipeline for an existing project and moving it from manual deployment to ansible and then to Kubernetes
- Empowered others to solve complex problems and positioned the company within the client as an innovation leader by coaching technical topics like Kubernetes and Angular
- Supervised scrum team & acted as scrum master and team lead
12/2017 - 06/2019
Consultant
05/2016 - 11/2017
Sr. Analyst
TypeScript JavaScript Angular Ionic node.js Docker Kubernetes OpenAPI MongoDB Redis Java Python RabbitMQ Kibana Elasticsearch C# ASP.NET Entity Framework
Software Developer C#/NAV
Mattern Consult
Software developer for Dynamics NAV ERP based projects. Designed and developed custom solutions for various SMEs.
- Designed and developed desktop-based C#-applications, with connection to Dynamics NAV and Dynamics CRM, for various external and internal clients. and upgraded existing ones.
- Developed, enhanced and implemented Dynamics NAV ERP systems
08/2014 - 04/2016
Software Developer C#/NAV
09/2012 - 07/2014
Dual Student/Software Developer C#/NAV
C# Dynamics NAV WCF ASP.NET Dynamics CRM WPF WinForms Windows Mobile 6.5