Resume

Living and breathing Clojure and functional programming. Striving for a deep understanding of the philosophy of Clojure and Lisp. I have a particular focus on Clojure, Linux and Emacs. Experienced with unity, situated applications, CI scripts, tooling, and making open-source contributions. Fluent in English and German. Committed to delivering solid information systems and understanding the problem, iterating on the ideas, and communicating effectively as a programmer.

• 2023-Present: Clojure Contractor
• 2018-2023: Fulltime programmer at Singularity Group
• 2014-2018: Studied biology at the University of Hohenheim (discontinued)
• 2013-2014: Studied cognitive science at the University of Osnabrueck (discontinued)

• 5 years experience in the software industry
• Linux, AWS, .Net, Clojure + a variety of technologies and languages
• Developed a mobile game with C# / Unity
  • UI, game logic, first experiences with shaders / GPU programming, Facebook integration, REST
  • Static code analysis (Roslyn), .Net live coding tool (Roslyn, Cecil)
  • Mentored junior team members
  • Occasionally worked with Postgress, DynamoDB, Golang and Typescript server side
• DevOps, CI, Gitlab, AWS
  • docker, Linux containers
  • Configuration as code; Anything not in source control is waste.
• Developer productivity, scripting
  • Committed to a smooth dev setup. For me and my team.
  • Linux shell, bash, babashka
  • Intellij plugin (Kotlin, Clojure)
• Tools: git, Emacs, rider, vim, Jira
• 3-4 years Lisp: Emacs Lisp, scripting, tools where ever I had the chance.
• 1-2 years Clojure: discord bot and internal tools
  • Datomic cloud, AWS EC2
  • Tests and property-based testing
  • Repl into production for record speed bug fixes
  • AWS lambda with holy lambda and nbb
• Website https://faster-than-light-memes.xyz/
• Frontend:
  • Some CSS, HTML and js (willingness to learn more)
  • Clojurescript, scittle, reagent, re-frame:
  • Blog post about scittle
  • Toy website with reagent and re-frame
• Open source contributions to babashka, clj-kondo, nbb, cider, Emacs packages, etc.
  • I contributed to cider nbb support and improvements for cider v1.6.0.
  • Recently, I made an Emacs package for openai-api.
  • I had the opportunity to work with Borkdude (clj-kondo, nbb, babashka nrepl).
  • I also contribute to open source projects via bug reports, and blog posts.
• Strong base knowledge of all major topics of biology and neuroscience
  • molecular biology lab experience, zoology, botany, genetics, cell biology, biochemistry, etc.
• Self-taught
  • I learned to love textbooks. Some manuals have the same spirit.
  • A hard work ethic that allows me to spend hours learning.
  • Classic Rich Hickey talks, podcasts, Eric Normand, SICP, Paul Graham, etc.

Github:

• Clj-kondo, nbb, babashka nrepl
• workshub/leona contribution (recent), also workshub bugfix,
• Openai-api emacs package (recent),
• Binaural beats (scittle)
• Toy website (reagent, re-frame)
• My webstie (emacs denote notes to html, babashka for the atom feed)
• Cider contributions
• Advent of code
• A getting started emacs config

Interests: Alternative programming paradigms, relational programming, chemical computing, conversational interfaces

Availability: Available for remote work. CET.

Location: Forst (Lausitz), Germany.

Languages: English: fluent, German: mother tongue. Latin: rudimentary

Recommendations: From my former colleague Milan: LinkedIn Recommendations