About Kyra
Software engineer with a background in backend systems, DevOps, and bioinformatics.
I've worked in both research and industry: as a software engineer on production backend systems handling customer master data for an international company, and earlier as a researcher building data and ML pipelines in a bioinformatics context.
For the past two years I've also been building my own projects and coding with AI tools as part of my regular workflow. I work in whatever language the context calls for rather than sticking to one, and I'm used to a "you build it, you run it" approach: owning my services in production, managing deployments and migrations, and handling issues that come up and resolving them.
My experience includes:
- improving and running a backend system for customer master data across a large microservice architecture, where services communicated over REST and Kafka
- working on a migration of data services to GCP: evaluating data solutions (including the decision between Pub/Sub and Kafka), reworking deployment pipelines, and setting up the first environment
- setting up CI/CD and containerized deployments with GitHub Actions, Docker and Kubernetes, including monitoring and alerting in Datadog
- building a Python pipeline to extract and structure biology data from messy source material, and benchmarking ML algorithms in a research context
On my own I've also shipped two projects end to end:
- Kennzeichenkarte.de, an interactive map of German licence plate districts, powered by a Python data pipeline. Open source and live, with daily users.
- reDream, a minimal, privacy-first dream journal for Android, built with Flutter and published on the Play Store.
Worked with: Kotlin · Java · Spring · Kafka · ZooKeeper · Solr · Git
Available for freelance work, remote across Europe, or on-site near Duisburg, Germany.
German
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Duisburg (up to 30km)
Experience
- Metronom/METRO digitalFull-Stack EngineerRETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)April 2019 - June 2023 (4 years and 2 months)Düsseldorf, Germany
- Development and operation of a customer master data platform built on Kotlin and Java microservices with Spring boot, communicating over REST and Kafka
- Country-by-country onboarding, keeping the old and new systems in sync at all times
- Migration of services to Google Cloud Platform: evaluating data solutions, reworking deployment pipelines, and setting up the first environment
- Monitoring and alerting in Datadog, and supporting disaster recovery planning
- CI/CD and containerized deployments with GitHub Actions, Docker and Kubernetes
- Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfPhD candidateRESEARCHOctober 2017 - March 2019 (1 year and 5 months)Düsseldorf, Germany
- Independent research on predicting enzyme kinetic parameters
- Built a machine learning pipeline, including algorithm benchmarking and feature engineering and selection
- Assisted with teaching and student mentoring alongside research work
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection ResearchResearch AssistantRESEARCHJanuary 2015 - June 2016 (1 year and 5 months)Braunschweig, Germany
- Bioinformatik research group
- Continuation of Python pipeline work begun at the University of Düsseldorf
- Contributed to three peer-reviewed publications through experiments, dataset assembly, and figure preparation
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Education
- Promotion Informatik (abgebrochen)Universität Düsseldorf Arbeitsgruppe Computational Cell Biology2019Promotion Informatik (abgebrochen)
- Master InformatikUniversität Düsseldorf2017Master Informatik