January 2014 — August 2016: Early Freelancing Projects
Multiple Short-Term Contracts
Companies:
- YOOCHOOSE GmbH
- Xsite GmbH
- freshcells systems
- fotocommunity GmbH
- Silver Tours GmbH
- AffiliCon GmbH
- dailypresent GmbH
Role & Contributions:
- Implemented automated deployment pipelines and led cloud transition projects for various companies.
- Established code quality frameworks and trained development teams in modern DevOps practices.
- Successfully integrated containerized testing environments with CI systems.
- Provided expert technical consulting and implemented REST APIs for mobile client integration.
Business Impact:
- Accelerated software delivery through CI/CD adoption across multiple organizations.
- Reduced infrastructure costs by leading AWS migration projects.
- Improved team velocity and software quality by establishing robust development standards.
- Enabled efficient testing and build processes through Docker integration.
Client Testimonials:
“His technical knowledge of PHP, Java and code metrics is outstanding. Mr. Schulte has worked very sustainably thanks to his numerous constructive suggestions for test development. We were able to benefit from his extensive experience and excellent training.
Mr Schulte completed all the tasks we requested to our complete satisfaction. In addition to his impeccable professional qualifications, Mr Schulte is characterised by his friendliness and his ability to work in a team. I consider him to be an excellent software developer who can be integrated very quickly into existing teams.”
— Dieter Granitzki, CTO AffiliCon GmbH (2015)
Key Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, PHP, AWS (EC2, S3), Jenkins, Atlassian Bamboo, Docker, PHPUnit, MySQL.