Summary
Bjoern Poetzschke is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, highly available microservices in Python and Go, now based in Boston. He has a strong track record of driving measurable reliability and performance improvements—reducing an order retrieval API error rate by 80%, cutting build and pipeline times dramatically, and slashing Kubernetes MTTR from hours to under 10 minutes. Comfortable across the full stack, he specializes in scalable event-driven systems, GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations that unblock customer go-lives and seasonal scale spikes. He also mentors engineers and champions practices like TDD and pair programming to raise team delivery quality. Notably, he combines hands-on implementation with operational pragmatism, having led both code and infrastructure changes that directly improved availability and deployment confidence.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer