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Tobias Krüner

Freelance Software Engineer

contact@tkruener.de0178 327351810783 Berlin

AI-accelerated full-stack engineer with deep expertise in cloud, backend, and data. High-pace, hands-on mentality with strong architectural skills.

Experience

Cloud Integration Engineer

Freelance
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toom Baumarkt GmbH

  • Designed and implemented comprehensive observability strategy with custom metric exporters, enabling early incident detection and preventing multiple production issues
  • Bidirectional Snowflake synchronization using Spring Boot and Go
  • Modernization of secret management using Secret Manager and External Secrets Operator
  • Introduction of keda based horizontal autoscaling
  • Introduction of ArgoCD for GitOps based deployments and improvement of various CI/CD processes
Postgres(CloudSQL)GCPGoKafkaBigQueryReactJavaKubernetesHelmTerraformGitlabArgoCDKeycloakSnowflakeSpring BootCloud Monitoring

Technical Cofounder

Self-employed
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FindYourWinematch

  • Implementation of multiplatform capable Augmented Reality Wine app
  • Setting up of a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster for hosting backend services and databases
  • Backend development using Spring Boot/Kotlin, Python FastApi and Go
  • Developed automated data acquisition system scraping over 1 million wine records with custom indexing for ML training pipelines
  • Training and transfer learning of Vision Transformers and textual embeddings for multimodal wine matching
  • Implementation of a cross platform capable Graphics and AR engine using Kotlin Multiplatform and OpenGL
Kotlin MultiplatformPythonGoC(++)OpenGLTensorFlowOpenCVSpring BootFast APIKafkaPostgresRedisQdrantAWSKubernetesHelmTerraformAnsibleArgoCDGithub

Platform Engineer

Freelance
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Bundesdruckerei GmbH

  • Bootstrapping of a multi-client capable AI-Platform on top of Kubernetes
  • Management and operations of an on-premise Kubernetes Cluster in a highly secured environment
  • Implementation of secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms
  • Hands-on workshops with customer data scientists and stakeholders
Spring BootKubernetesAnsibleRPositFluxHelmNginxKeycloak

Cloud Consultant

Freelance
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toom Baumarkt GmbH

  • Architectural design and implementation of a Kafka-based CRM system
  • Bootstrapping of a self managed, Kubernetes powered infrastructure in GCP
  • Built foundational data pipelines feeding customer insights into CRM analytics and marketing automation
  • Developed initial microservice architecture integrating multiple SaaS platforms into a single source of truth for customer data
  • Establishment of the monitoring stack and continuous integration pipelines
TerraformGCPKubernetesJavaKafka/StrimziHelmGitlabPrometheusSpring Boot
Previous Positions

Cloud Engineer

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EMnify

  • Management of a Kafka based company-wide central data infrastructure on AWS
  • Design and implementation of a platform for livestreaming telecommunication and payload events to multiple customer organisations
  • Implementation of live policy and charging functionality for mobile data traffic
  • Planning and execution of zero downtime migrations between Kafka clusters
  • Built engineering enablement tools—shared Terraform modules, GitHub CI templates, and custom Kafka CLI—adopted across multiple engineering teams
ScalaJavaKafkaAWSKubernetesTerraformNodeJShttp4sGithubMySQL

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

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idealo internet GmbH

  • GraphQL Backend Development for the mobile apps
  • Introduction of Kafka Streams for real-time aggregations and data transformations
  • Designed and integrated high-volume user tracking event pipelines for analytics and personalization
  • Development of multiple Kafka stream applications
  • Implementation of a data pipeline for exporting app tracking data to a cloud-based datalake
  • Mentoring of team members in AWS and Kubernetes
KotlinGraphQLSpring BootKafkaOpenshiftAWSTerraformMongoDBJenkinsGitlab

Fullstack Software Engineer

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techdev Solutions GmbH

  • Back and frontend development for projects in the blockchain industry
  • Development of Alexa and Google Assistant skills for multiple customers
  • Cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
  • Prototyping of a customized Raspberry voice assistant
  • Development of an integration test library for voice assistants
  • Terraform provider implementation for Alexa Skills in Go
KotlinSpring BootTypescriptNodeJSReactAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformCircleCIGithub

Android Engineer

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Iconmobile GmbH

  • Android feature development for the Oral-B app, including Bluetooth integration with smart toothbrushes
  • Development of a real-time face augmentation Android app using machine learning
AndroidKotlinJavaC(++)DlibLibGdxOpenGLJNIGitlab

Student Software Engineer

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Toll-Collect GmbH

  • Development and model building of a discrete event simulation of toll processes
  • Live visualization of characteristic numbers and geographical toll data
C(++)JavaJavaFXCSS

Student Worker

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Siemens Industriegetriebe GmbH

  • Development and mathematical model building of a Java-based planning tool for optimizing stock
JavaJavaFXMySQL

Skills

AI & Development Tools

  • Claude Code
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • GitHub Copilot
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini CLI

Programming Languages

  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Scala
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Typescript
  • Go
  • C(++)
  • Bash

Infrastructure & Cloud

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Keycloak

Data & Persistence

  • Kafka
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Qdrant
  • MongoDB
  • BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • MySql
  • MQTT

Backend

  • Spring Boot
  • Micronaut
  • Fast API
  • http4s

Frontend

  • Kotlin Multiplatform
  • React
  • Flutter
  • Android

CI/CD & DevOps

  • ArgoCD
  • Flux
  • Jenkins
  • Gitlab
  • Github

Monitoring & Alerting

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Cloud Monitoring

Game Development

  • LibGdx
  • Unity
  • OpenGL

Machine Learning & AI

  • TensorFlow/Keras
  • Vision Transformers
  • Embeddings/Vector Search

Methodology

  • Scrum/Kanban
  • Jira
  • Confluence

Misc

  • ESP32/RTOS

Education

TU Berlin

Technological Mathematics

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TU München

Mathematics

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Languages

German
Native
English
Fluent