Andreas Finke
Principal Software Engineer at BBC
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndreas Finke is a Principal Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with 14 years of experience building distributed, real-time and payments-focused systems across startups and large enterprises. He has held technical leadership roles from CTO of Payactive—where he combined payments, PSD2-enabled flows and customer-first late-payment management—to principal engineering at the BBC supporting equitable learning services. Andreas blends hands-on engineering in Kafka, Akka, Vert.x, Spring and big-data stacks (Spark, HBase, Cassandra) with product ownership and cross-country team leadership. He has deep domain experience in financial services, fraud detection and scalable messaging platforms, and a track record of integrating new systems into complex enterprise landscapes. Known for a pragmatic, people-first approach (his GitHub motto: "it's more important to be nice"), he also directs profits and product purpose toward sustainability through mission-driven ventures.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Mathematics, A-Level Mathematics at Johann Gottfried Herder Gesamtschule, Königs WusterhausenFachinformatiker / Systemintegration Informatics, Fachinformatiker / Systemintegration Informatics at Bundesversicherungsanstalt für AngestellteBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology at Frankfurt University of Applied SciencesMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (51)
corona10
check-in10
recover10
material-ui10
contact-tracing-app10
contact-tracing10
kontakt10
react10
react-components9
javascript9
health9
capability9
typescript9
privacy-protection9
material-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hey-johnnypark/kafka-admin-api
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hey-johnnypark/fb-messages-to-json
Oct 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
jsonfacebook
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