Summary
Carsten Timpert is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 10 years of experience building scalable, maintainable and fault-tolerant distributed systems across cloud and on-premise environments. He has delivered production-critical services at Amazon/AWS and previously rearchitected payment and energy platforms at Zalando and E.ON, migrating monoliths to Kubernetes and optimizing databases for low-latency at scale. Skilled in functional programming, clean code and AI-informed engineering, he combines customer obsession with operational excellence to drive reliability for high-throughput systems. Notably, he led automated load-testing and real-time ML pipelines for mission-critical events like Black Friday and wind-park forecasting, showing an unusual mix of systems and data expertise. Fluent in building resilient microservices, ETL and streaming applications, he thrives on turning complex distributed challenges into dependable production outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer