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Hello, my name is Simon :)
I am a passionate IT Engineer and Architect with a lot of professional experience and enjoy working with motivated people on exciting projects.
Always open to new things and willing to experiment, but I also attach great importance to long-lasting, sustainable and comprehensible results.
English
Native or bilingual
German
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Syncorix GmbHManaging Partner & Software Architecture ConsultantJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)Cologne, NW, GermanyAfter >15 years as an IT Engineer & Architect in permanent employment, I am now one of the founders of Syncorix GmbH and I am happy to contribute my collected expertise and experience to exciting projects.
- Bank-Verlag GmbHSoftware Architect & Technical LeadSeptember 2022 - December 2024 (2 years and 3 months)Cologne, NW, GermanyIn this position I was able to learn a lot about the technical aspects of the financial industry and contribute technical expertise and architecture, e.g. in the form of
- Design of the integration architecture for a distributed authorization system
- Concept for high-availability setup with modern platforms such as Kubernetes and Kafka
- Specification of a consolidated OpenAPI interface for the card lifecycle
- Design and documentation (arc42) of the solution and integration architecture of a high-throughput optimized network of self-contained systems for recipient verification in SEPA transfers.
- Definition and implementation of security features (including mTLS, JWE, JWK, Vault connection, key rotation)
- Creation of IT development plans (ArchiMate®, LUY)
- Introduction of lightweight ADR (Markdown, GitLab)
- Setting up and maintaining the OWASP Dependency-Track platform for continuous vulnerability analysis of the open source software supply chain
- REWE DIGITALSolution ArchitectDecember 2020 - August 2022 (1 year and 8 months)Cologne, NW, GermanyAs Solution Architect @ REWE Systems now REWE digital, I was significantly involved in the solution architecture and reference implementation for the transformation of the more than 75 applications of the market systems from a “monolithic” structure to professionally tailored “vertical cuts” in the backend and frontend, including an architectural change from application servers via Spring-Boot applications to cloud microservices on Kubernetes and GCP.
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Education
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Photo Engineering and Media TechnologyCologne University of Applied Sciences2008Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Photoingenieurwesen und Medientechnik