May 2024 – November 2025
Senior Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH · Berlin · via Constaff GmbH
- Designed and implemented cloud-native microservices using Java and Kotlin with Spring Boot, serving as the backbone for a large-scale automotive pricing platform.
- Architected and maintained containerised deployments on AWS with Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance in production environments.
- Established GitOps-based deployment pipelines with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions, streamlining continuous delivery and reducing deployment risk.
- Implemented comprehensive observability using Datadog — dashboards, alerts, and distributed tracing — enabling proactive incident detection and rapid root-cause analysis.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional squads (product, QA, DevOps) in a Scrum environment, contributing to architecture decisions and code reviews as a senior team member.
- Stack: Kotlin, SpringBoot, Kubernetes, K9s, AWS, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Apache Kafka, Datadog