about /me

The short version

Experienced backend engineer who can lead projects from the ground up to completion. The quality of the work is important to me, and working on unknowns is my passion.

Field notes

Staff Software Engineer
at Smallpdf

Sep 2021–Present

Zürich

Led various payment initiatives, covering integration with multiple subscription management platforms and payment methods.
Owned the entire backend development of sign.com and the new authentication service of smallpdf.com.
Tinkered with plugins for Claude Code to streamline aspects of the team's day-to-day work.

Senior Software Engineer
at Globus

Sep 2019–Aug 2021

Zürich

Improved the memory consumption and responsiveness of major user-facing services of the online store.
Created a pipeline for processing online and offline sales data.

…the rest of the rap sheet lives in the CV.

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Languages
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Perl
JavaScript
Bash

Data
SQL
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Elasticsearch
BigQuery

Infrastructure
AWS (S3, ECS, SSM, SQS, SNS)
Kubernetes
NATS
PubSub
Jenkins
Bitbucket CI

Observability
Datadog
Grafana

The short version

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