Andreas Paulus

Conception and development of a Windows desktop application (Flutter) for semantic search and management of large video archives (clipcatalogpro.com).

• • Implementation of a serverless AWS backend (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SES, SQS) for licensing, auth, and transactional email delivery

• • Development of the product website with Astro, delivered via S3/CloudFront

• • Connection and state synchronization of multiple external APIs (Paddle, Brevo, ZeroBounce) including incoming webhook processing

• • Integration of local AI models: semantic video and image search via embeddings and vector similarity, object recognition, audio transcription, as well as face recognition and clustering

• • Setup of a fully agentic AI-assisted development workflow with MCP integrations (Claude Code)

Technologies: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SES, SQS, S3, CloudFront, CDK), Flutter, Dart, Astro, C#, Python, local AI models (transcription, semantic search, object and face recognition), third-party APIs (Paddle, Brevo, ZeroBounce), webhook processing for freelance mandates

Independent planning and execution of a two-year overland journey with a motorhome through over 15 countries: visa and carnet coordination, vehicle import and export, spare parts procurement in remote regions, and seasonal route planning across multiple climate zones. Parallel continuous content production for a personal travel YouTube channel.

• • Development of AWS cloud infrastructure as Infrastructure-as-Code with AWS CDK (TypeScript)

• • Design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines for trunk-based development with multiple productive deployments per day; automation of engineering workflows in Python

• • Observability and operations with Datadog

• • Development of microservices in Kotlin with Spring Boot following hexagonal architecture

• • Design of modern AWS cloud architectures and API design

• • IoT event processing with Apache Kafka

• • Occasional frontend contributions with React

Technologies: AWS (CDK, Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, IAM, CloudWatch, CodeBuild), Kotlin, Spring Boot, TypeScript, Python, Apache Kafka, Datadog, hexagonal architecture, microservices, trunk-based development, React