Hello, World! I'm Brian.𝖨

I'm a full-stack developer at Slalom with a strong background in web development. I enjoy working with cross-functional teams to build high-quality software for our clients. With experience as both a project leader and developer, I help connect business needs with technical solutions. I'm passionate about building innovative tools that create real value.

Competencies

I bring both technical expertise and team-managing experience to teams. Over the years, I have gained experience in many different technologies. My main focus is on Full-Stack Web Development, AI, and Cloud Infrastructure.

Full Stack Development

⚡ Building modern web applications with React.js

⚡ Building RESTful APIs in FastAPI with Python

⚡ Seemlessly integrating databases, external services.

Artificial Intelligence

⚡ Developing AI-enhanced web applications

⚡ Implementing agentic workflows and multi-step AI reasoning

⚡ Natural language processing and text analysis

⚡ Implementing guardrails for safe and responsible AI integration

Infrastructure and Architecture

⚡ Experience with cloud platforms AWS and Azure

⚡ Designing and setting up scalable microservice architectures

⚡ Building CI/CD pipelines for automated testing & deployment

⚡ Leveraging containerization to build reusable, scalable applications

Project Leadership & Scrum

Certified Scrum Master
Advanced Certified Scrum Master

⚡ Scrum Alliance Certified: Advanced Certified Scrum Master

⚡ Understanding the client's needs and breaking them down into technical terms

⚡ Prioritizing work to ensure the right work is done at the best time.

⚡ Enabling teams to grow with the Scrum principles.

⚡ Strategic planning, anticipating challenges, and transparent communication.

Experience

Slalom GmbH, München
Oct. 2024 - present
Senior Software Engineer

Full-Stack web developer on a large-scale document management platform leveraging Azure infrastructure. Developed complex business logic and integrated AI features to enhance document processing capabilities.

CloudFlight Germany GmbH, München
Dec. 2019 - Sep. 2024
Project Leader, Senior Full-Stack Developer

I started as a full-stack developer in Cognostics AG (later acquired by Cloudflight), developing a dockerized web app for use in hospitals, with Typescript and Python in a large scrum team. Since 2022, I orchestrated various projects as a project leader, in parallel to the role of developer.

Storm Reply, München
Apr. 2019 - Sep. 2019
Master Thesis, Internship

As part of my master's thesis, I developed an automatic anomaly detection mechanism in the context of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides, I designed a reinforcement-learning reward function in Python with which our team won a local AWS DeepRacer Challenge

Max-Planck-Institut Tübingen
Apr. 2018 - Oct. 2018
Project Internship (Brain-Computer-Interfaces, Android Development)

During an internship within my master's studies, I developed an Android application in Kotlin for evaluating EEG-measurements with a bluetooth headset. The project led to several publications² and the source code can be found on Github.

Robert Bosch GmbH, Abstatt
Oct. 2016 - Feb. 2017
Bachelor Thesis Project

Over the course of three semesters during my bachelor's studies, I worked first as an intern and later as a working student in an agile Scrum team, contributing the development of a microservice-based cloud-architecture for road condition services. I developed a distributed testing-framework with Node.js, and contributed in the development of an AngularJS web app.

Education

Hochschule Heilbronn
2013 - 2017
B.Sc. Software Engineering

Area of studies: software design, architecture and development; customer-oriented planning; agile project management; consultation

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2017 - 2019
M.Sc. Cognostive Science

Area of studies: computer science (neural networks, AI, neuro science, Brain-Computer-Interfaces), scientific working methods, linguistics, psychology.