Alexander Holbreich
Engineering Manager at Mindstorm.Digital
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Holbreich is an engineering manager and seasoned software architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, event-driven platforms and leading cross-functional teams from startups to large enterprises. He has repeatedly driven migrations—from monoliths to microservices and to Kubernetes—established company-wide data, security and infrastructure competency centers, and introduced GitOps, Kafka, and modern DevOps practices. Comfortable both in the weeds (Java, Spring, Kafka, Auth0, AWS) and at the strategic level, he has built and scaled engineering organizations, hiring and mentoring dozens of engineers and shaping product-driven delivery. Notably, he blends product-minded architecture with operational rigor, having led platform certification and incident management efforts in safety-conscious environments. Based in Hamburg, he also runs a web agency, reflecting an entrepreneurial streak alongside corporate leadership.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatik, Business Information Systems (or Business Informatics), Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatik, Business Information Systems (or Business Informatics) at Universität Hamburg
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (64)
unirest10
web-application9
ghost9
docker9
client-library9
nodejs9
docker-compose8
jamstack8
java8
javascript8
cms8
json8
golang8
docker-image7
audience7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shuron/web-ums
Mar 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:19 pushes in 8 years 7 months
n2ru/tagcloud
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 7 months
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