Christoph Mewes

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany; Bachelor Thesis: “Using decentralized version control in companies” (PDF)

Higher Education Entrance Qualification, Rudolf Hildebrand Gymnasium in Stendal, Germany

DevOps Engineer / Software Developer at CYPP GmbH, setting up and monitoring immutable cloud infrastructure based on Container Linux, developing backend software Go/Clojure, building cross-platform system agent in Go, improving internal tooling and CI pipelines

Software Developer / Architect at webvariants GmbH & Co. KG, working on PHP/Node.js-based web sites and applications of all sizes and forms, basic server administration on Google Cloud/AWS, SallyCMS lead developer, refactoring and maintenance of legacy applications

native language

fluent written/spoken

PHP (14 years), JavaScript (6 years), Go (4 years), Clojure (2 years), Python (1 year), basics of C++, Java

relational (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), Graph oriented (Neo4j, Titan), document oriented (CouchDB, MongoDB)

Windows, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, …), Docker, AWS, Google Cloud, VirtualBox

Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Icinga, Riemann, InfluxDB, Grafana

Git, Mercurial, Subversion

Development of the server-side architecture and the scalable data processing pipeline
PHP, Symfony2, S3, RDS

Integration of external flight planning and parking reservation system into the newly developed website
PHP, XML, proprietary protocols

Extensive, public REST API covering most of the user generated content, enabling third-party applications
PHP, Silex, Fractal

Web-based application to manage time schedules for livestreaming events, specifically for the gaming community
PHP, MariaDB, Silex

Web-based, highly extensible CMS with an emphasis on compatibility with legacy servers and cloud environments
PHP, MySQL

Caching library implementing namespaced storage in a variety of key-value based storages like Memcached, Redis et al.
PHP

Extensible chat bot for Twitch.tv
Node.js (version 1), Go (version 2)

Package to make NaCl easier to use for password-based encryption
Go, NaCl

German

May 1986

class B

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Christoph Mewes
Eckerkoppel 51
22159 Hamburg