Andreas Finke
Founder at Contro
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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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
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Heidelberg UniversityResearch Fellowship awarded to selected excellent students, Research Fellowship awarded to selected excellent students at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di TriesteGeneral Relativity and Cosmology, General Relativity and Cosmology at Tokyo University of ScienceGeneral Relativity, General Relativity at IUCAAMaster of Philosophy - MPhil, Quantum physics, ultracold gases, and gravitation, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Quantum physics, ultracold gases, and gravitation at University of Nottingham
German, English, French
Github Skills (40)
react-components10
corona10
docker-image10
recover10
material-ui10
contact-tracing-app10
apache-kafka10
react10
check-in9
health9
zookeeper9
kafka9
docker9
kontakt9
privacy-protection9
Programming languages (7)
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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