Philipp Gillé - Résumé
Contents
- Overview
- CV
- Hard skills
- Professional
- Intermediate
- Beginner
- Soft skills
- Notable side projects
- Active
- Low priority or
archived
Overview
- Senior software engineer
- Backend developer, tech and project lead, architect for new
features
- Current stack: Go (Golang) microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC /
protobuf, HTTP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker. On AWS with Kubernetes. Some
Ruby and Elixir.
- Past: Java, C#, mostly backend but also mobile apps. MongoDB,
Hazelcast, HTTP, Docker. On-premise hosting.
- See Hard skills for details
- Open source maintainer
- Vector database library (AI / RAG), key-value store library for 20+
storage systems, Bitcoin / Lightning Network library for Go APIs
- See Notable side projects for
more
- Living in Leipzig, Germany
- Speaking fluent English and German, some French
- Willing to relocate or work remotely
- Some cities I’d like to work in: San Francisco / Bay Area, Dubai,
Singapore, Perth
- Willing to work full- or part-time, as well as contract work
- Preferring to work in either agile startups or innovative
subsidiaries / departments of corporations
CV
In reverse-chronological order:
- 2014-01 - present: Work
- 2020-02 - present: Senior software engineer at Heetch
- Developing payments and finance related systems (cash / card /
mobile wallet payments, ledger, invoices, …) in Go
- Maintaining and creating company-wide developer tooling
(libraries, CLIs, GUIs) in Go
- Maintaining and migrating legacy systems (Ruby and
Elixir)
- Leading the architecture and development of new features in
project-based work, collaborating with other teams, EMs, PMs and
stakeholders
- Establishing standards, guidelines and best practices in the org
as part of a cross-team tech lead group
- Mentoring junior developers and peers
- Interviewing job applicants
- 2014-01 - 2020-01: Software engineer at Apinauten GmbH
- Developing Enterprise-Backend-as-a-Service in Java
- Developing client SDKs in Java (Android) and C#
(Xamarin)
- Developing connectors to existing legacy systems
- Project work (backends for customer-specific webapps), sometimes
working on-site in customers’ offices
- Evaluating and defining architectures in a cross-team
architecture board
- 2013-03 - 2013-12: Student employee at Sunato Gmbh (during university)
- Developing mobile apps in C# (Windows Store, Windows
Phone)
- 2010-09 - 2013-12: University
- 2010-02 - 2010-07: Traveling abroad
- Backpacking around Australia
- 2007-08 - 2010-01: Training / apprenticeship
- In several subsidiaries of Bertelsmann AG,
Gütersloh, Germany
- In combination with the private school “b.i.b.” in
Paderborn, Germany
- “Computer Science Expert, Subject Area: Software
Development”
- 2006-07 - 2007-06: Basic military service
- Main unit: EloKaBtl 932, Frankenberg (Eder), Germany
- Boot camp: EloKaBtl 912, Nienburg (Weser), Germany
- 1993 - 2006: School
- 1999 - 2006: Secondary school (Gymnasium)
- advanced courses: math and physics
- 1993 - 1999: Primary school
- 1987-06-15: Born in Göttingen, Germany
Hard skills
Technologies, programming languages, frameworks, libraries, tools,
…
In alphabetical order!
Professional
- Agile software development,
Scrum
- Apache Avro
- Apache Kafka
- Bash scripting
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
- C# (6), .NET, Mono,
.NET Core, LINQ
- Distributed systems
- Docker
- Git
- Go (Golang)
- gRPC
- IDEs: VS Code, Eclipse, MonoDevelop, Visual Studio
- Java (8), Java Streams
- Linux command line
- Microservice architecture
- protobuf
- RabbitMQ
- RESTful APIs (HTTP)
- SQL in general (MS SQL, Oracle SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
- Testing (unit tests, mocking, component tests, E2E tests with Venom)
- Amazon Alexa Skill Development in Java
- AppImage creation (universal
Linux packages, similar to Snap and
Flatpak)
- Bitcoin and Blockchains, Lightning Network
- Chocolatey package creation
(Windows packages)
- Cloud services:
- Amazon AWS EC2, ECR, S3, RDS,
ElastiCache, EBS, Lambda
- Microsoft Azure VM,
App Service, Functions, Cognitive Services, Table Storage
- AppHarbor (PaaS)
- mLab (MongoDB DBaaS)
- VM hosting providers: Scaleway, Hetzner Cloud
- Consul (service
registry and key-value store)
- Docker Swarm clusters
- HTML
- Inno Setup
(Windows installer creator)
- Kubernetes
- Linux Server management
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- MongoDB
- NoSQL in general
- OAuth, OpenID Connect
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Ruby
- Snap creation (Linux
packages)
- Twilio Voice and SMS
Beginner
- Apache Batik
(Java SVG library)
- Apache Thrift (binary
protocol similar to Google Protocol
Buffers)
- ASP.NET Web API (by far the most
popular web framework for C#/.NET)
- BitcoinJ (Java library for
interacting with the Bitcoin blockchain)
- Blockchain smart contracts in general
- Erlang (programming language
for highly scalable distributed high-availability systems)
- Homebrew package creation (macOS
packages)
- Machine Learning / Deep Learning in general
- Other databases (mainly from work on my side project gokv):
- Windows PowerShell
Soft skills
In no specific order:
- High attention to detail
- Precise, professional written communication
- Conveying technical information to non-technical people
- Identifying and resolving complex technical issues
- Putting quality over quantity with the ability to compromise and
ship
- Teamwork, finding a middle ground among opposing opinions among
peers
- Mentoring / enabling juniors and peers to be more productive by
sharing my knowledge, tips and tricks
- INTJ / INTP personality (Myers-Briggs)
- Optimistic towards the future
- Tech enthusiast
- Seeing potential for optimization and automation, continuously
reporting or implementing them
Notable side projects
Active
- chromem-go
- Embeddable vector database for Go with Chroma-like interface and
zero third-party dependencies. In-memory with optional persistence.
- gokv
- A Go package that contains an abstraction for key-value stores and
multiple interface implementations (Redis, Consul, etcd, bbolt,
BadgerDB, LevelDB, Memcached, DynamoDB, S3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,
CockroachDB and many more)
Low priority or archived
