Summary
Basti Paintner is a Full Stack Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of professional experience and over six years focused on web development. He specializes in frontend engineering—particularly React, TypeScript, Vue and Svelte—while also delivering backend APIs and CI/CD improvements across Ruby on Rails, Docker and Kafka environments. His work spans public sector digital services at DigitalService and product-driven roles at startups and enterprises, where he has driven refactors from monoliths to single-page frontends and built component libraries. Basti blends design-oriented thinking (MA in Design and Computation) with an electrical engineering background, which helps him bridge UX, tooling and systems-level concerns. He repeatedly takes ownership of testing strategies, developer onboarding and infrastructure automation, making teams more productive as well as codebases more maintainable. Colleagues value him for shipping pragmatic solutions that balance user needs, architecture and long-term quality.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Master of Arts - MA, Design and Computation, Master of Arts - MA, Design and Computation at Universität der Künste Berlin
English, German