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        "title": "Horse Riding",
        "description": "Exploring the German countryside on horseback"
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        "icon": "🚜",
        "title": "Farm Life",
        "description": "Working on the farm and connecting with nature"
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        "title": "Community",
        "description": "Contributing to my local community at Freizeit Aktiv e.V."
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            "featured": false
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            "proficiency": 85,
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            "featured": false
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          {
            "name": "Amazon Web Services",
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            "proficiency": 75,
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      "REST APIs",
      "GraphQL",
      "PostgreSQL",
      "MongoDB",
      "Redis",
      "GitHub Actions",
      "GitLab CI",
      "Angular",
      "Git",
      "Jira",
      "Asana",
      "Cursor",
      "VSCode"
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          "🏗️ Built the foundation of the Agent Management Platform, enabling scalable creation and management of AI agents",
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          "☁️ Consolidated and migrated the operations landscape by introducing a cloud-agnostic Kubernetes-oriented approach",
          "🏛️ Introduced a new architecture to enable better stability and scalability of the existing product"
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        "title": "Senior Full Stack Engineer",
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        "companyUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/neohelden/",
        "location": "Karlsruhe, Germany",
        "period": "Jul 2019 - Jul 2021",
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          "🔄 Migrated and reimplemented a NodeJS backend application from FeathersJS to NestJS",
          "🎤 Integrated Speech To Text and Text To Speech technologies as microservices",
          "🐍 Developed and maintained a python SDK",
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          "☸️ Introduced kubernetes compatibility with helm charts",
          "🚀 Maintained and optimized development automations with Gitlab CI and Github Actions"
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        "summary": "Fiducia & GAD IT AG (now called Atruvia) is the main IT service provider for the Volksbanken in Germany. They focus on developing and providing banking software.",
        "achievements": [
          "🏦 Developed & Maintained a middle layer application to manage and execute BI reports on mainframe machines"
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        "degree": "General Qualification for University Entrance (Abitur)",
        "institution": "Albert-Einstein-Schule Ettlingen",
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        "description": "Specialized in Information Technology, building a strong foundation in computer science concepts, programming fundamentals, and technical problem-solving.",
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            "Large Language Models Integration",
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            "Speech Technologies (STT, TTS)"
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            "Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)",
            "Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS)",
            "CI/CD Pipeline Automation"
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            "Message-Driven Systems",
            "Real-time Communication",
            "Scalable Backend Design"
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            "Python for AI/ML Applications",
            "NestJS & FastAPI Frameworks",
            "React & Modern Frontend"
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        {
          "icon": "🏗️",
          "text": "Architecting and building production systems serving enterprise customers"
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          "icon": "👥",
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    "organization": "Freizeit Aktiv e.V.",
    "website": "https://freizeitaktiv.net",
    "period": "September 2015 - Present",
    "description": "Freizeit Aktiv e.V. is a club offering its members multiple options to do sports and is also participating in the local carnival. Serving on the managing committee to support community engagement and sports activities."
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