January 2020 — March 2020: Cloud Consultant at Sedo GmbH
Freelance | Cologne
Role & Contributions:
- Consolidated Spring Boot and Apache Camel services into a single Quarkus service.
- Standardized REST API implementations across the platform.
- Evaluated Knative for potential serverless architecture adoption.
- Led workshops on contract testing (Pact) to enhance team capabilities.
Business Impact:
- Reduced infrastructure overhead by 60% through service consolidation.
- Improved development velocity by standardizing API patterns.
- Enhanced team knowledge and quality practices through contract testing training.
Key Technologies: Quarkus, Java 11, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Knative, Pact, Docker.