Summary
Dirk Rusche is a pragmatic fullstack developer with 10 years of experience building resilient, high-quality software and microservices for German enterprises and startups. He combines hands-on expertise in Kotlin, Spring Boot, MySQL/Redis, feature toggles and Terraform with practical AWS proficiency across ECS, EC2, SQS, Kinesis and Aurora to deliver highly available systems. Dirk has blended corporate and entrepreneurial experience—co-founding two ventures while holding engineering and staff roles at RTL and OTTO—so he bridges product thinking with architectural discipline. A former lecturer with an M.Sc. in Computer Science, he values clean code and measurable reliability, and enjoys applying academic rigor to production engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M. Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M. Sc.) Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
German, English