Conrad Pöpke
Staff Engineer at Freelance
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolConrad Pöpke is a principal AI product engineer and seasoned staff engineer with over 12 years in production software and 18 years of cumulative experience across full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, and technical leadership. He specializes in designing scalable, secure cloud platforms and migrating monoliths to microservices with Domain-Driven Design, while driving SaaS enablement, observability, and GenAI infrastructure at companies like Aleph Alpha and Forto. Conrad has repeatedly built and led cross-functional teams—founding an IAM team, modernizing UI design systems, and shaping incident response and reliability culture—balancing strategic product leadership with hands-on implementation. He combines strong vendor and platform selection experience (secrets management, OpenTelemetry, Grafana Cloud) with pragmatic architecture practices like ADRs and automated OpenAPI documentation. Active in the community, he co-founded a DDD conference and experiments with agentic engineering, reflecting a curious, systems-oriented mindset that pairs research interests with real-world operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science IT-Systems Engineering, Master of Science IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (41)
data-collection9
server-side9
snowplow8
data-lineage8
spring-boot8
aws8
generator8
gcp8
java8
analytics8
webhooks8
yeoman-generator8
snowflake7
webpack7
warehouse7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cpoepke/demos
Aug 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 1 year
cpoepke/mule-end-to-end-test-demo
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 5 pushes in 1 day
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