Summary
Birgit Kratz is a freelance Software Crafter and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience building Java/Spring-based backend systems and cloud-native microservices for finance, logistics, retail and industry. She champions clean code, TDD and Domain-Driven Design, pairing pragmatic architecture with developer-friendly tooling (IntelliJ, Git, Maven, Jenkins) to deliver robust web applications. As a long-term freelancer and co-organizer of the Softwerkskammer in Düsseldorf and Köln, she blends community leadership with practical delivery in agile teams. Trained as a Diplom-Ingenieurin from TU Dresden, she brings electrical engineering rigor to software design and is fluent in German and English.
10 years of coding experience
Diplom-Ingenieurin, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Diplom-Ingenieurin, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden