IT Architect

Skills:
- Technical and solution architecture
- Design of integration patterns
- Experienced in software engineering & SRE - Agile product development

• Cloud Computing
• Infrastrukturarchitektur
• Software Architecture
• Software engineering / -technik
• Solution Architektur

Starting his professional journey as Software Engineer and Technical Architect back in 2017, W. has since been involved in multiple medium & large-sized projects at Ergo Group AG and Peek&Cloppenburg Düsseldorf KG. W. holds multiple professional IT certificates and continues striving for further achievements such as Master Degree in Big Data.
W.’s curiosity for ever-growing IT landscapes enhances his desire to develop highly reliable, scalable & extensible architecture blueprints and final solutions. His broad expertise ranges from still dominating legacy mainframe to modern state-of-the-art technologies, including public cloud platform knowledge, especially in Google Cloud and AWS.
Furthermore, W. has a strong interest in open- source projects, participating related conferences frequently, which intensifies his proficiency on designing high-quality IT architecture. Besides, W. also extends his knowledge by working on private projects such as implementing a k8s operator, improving his home lab and contributing to CNCF projects.

Technologies:
- Platforms & systems: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, RedHat OpenShift, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes & co, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SQL, IBM MQ, Apache Camel, Linux, Kong Gateway
- Interfaces and system integration: Microservices, DevSecOps, GitOps, stream processing, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, API design, EIP, API gateway
- Software development: Java, Spring, Vert.x, Apache Camel, Golang, JavaScript, TypeScript, Nodejs, Python, COBOL, NoSQL, SQL, shell scripting