The subject is "Scalable Web-Applications in the Cloud" for a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
Focus resides on practical as well as theoretical aspects of public cloud computing
Examples and hands-on exercises are developed with Serverless Framework (AWS), Node.js, Angular and Ruby on Rails

Private Lecturer

Public cloud (AWS) architectural designs, implementation, and administration
Network and systems administration
Troubleshoot and debug severe issues on Production systems and technical issues
Software development projects with main focus on highly scalable web-applications together with the Serverless Framework (AWS) and Node.js
Monitoring of infrastructure health
Project manager and software engineer for migration projects to Node.js
Sectors: credit card, health & healthcare, web-development agencies

Senior Software Engineer

100% remote company distributed over 4 countries on 3 different continents
Decider on technical short-, mid- and long-term strategy and architecture of 6 different SaaS products for mobile, web and desktop
Overseeing software development process of the IT team
Enabling team members to constantly improve their quality by implementing static code analysis tools (automated testing, mandatory code reviews, load testing, code style rules, and coding conventions, etc.)
Backend development for Node.js based products

Troubleshoot and debug severe issues on Production systems and technical issues

Responsible for the complete technical hiring process
Overseeing public cloud hosting IT-infrastructure work and changes
Supervising data privacy matters for all on-going and upcoming projects
Technical project and product management
Hired 5 software engineers and 2 software quality engineers

Responsible for the whole public cloud IT-infrastructure architecture of a Node.js based large-scale and distributed product portfolio by means of design, scaling, maintenance, health monitoring, debugging and troubleshooting on the application as well as OS level
Design new public cloud IT-systems running on AWS
Migration of all existing IT-systems from classic hosters, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to the public cloud provider AWS, which had been achieved after 4 months.
Implemented best practices for infrastructure as a code, automated testing, systems documentation writing, self-monitoring, and healing environments, in order to ensure a reliable IT-infrastructure based on automation
Achieved close to 0 Production downtime

Head of IT-Infrastructure

Responsible for the Scrum process of a distributed team (4 different countries and timezones)
Core product consisted of a web-application for the management process for the setup of a personal charging infrastructure for electric vehicles
Responsible for design, setup, monitoring, debugging and troubleshooting of all IT-infrastructure, which consisted of on-premise hardware as well as remote systems.
Before being a permanent employee, I worked for this company via my own company "Florian Schäffler - IT-Services" to build up the IT-office infrastructure of this company, which grew from 5 to over 40 employees.
Migration of the IT-infrastructure to the public cloud (AWS) within 6 month

Scrum Master & DevOps

Software Developer

Lambda, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, SES, CloudFormation

Senior Back-end Software Engineer,  AWS Architect

Florian Schaeffler

Migration from Java to Node.js / AWS / Lambda / Serverless

Migration to AWS

Re-design and implementation of a scalable high traffic back-end with a focus towards AWS for the advertisement tech industry. (peaks of up to 100.000 requests per second; fully deployed on AWS; self-healing mechanisms; 100% test-coverage)

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Florian S.

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