Dominik Lessel
Senior Payments Engineer 2 at Parkopedia
Meerbusch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDominik Lessel is a Senior Payments Engineer with 13 years of experience building production-proven systems from mobile apps to distributed, serverless architectures. Currently driving payments at Parkopedia after hands-on roles at Stripe and as an independent consultant, he blends deep payments and integration expertise with full-stack JavaScript and AWS serverless patterns. As a former CTO and co-founder, he has experience turning prototypes into investor-backed products and assembling cross-functional teams to scale complex platforms. He’s comfortable architecting cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, gRPC, and observability stacks, while also shipping client-facing mobile and web experiences. Based in Meerbusch, Germany, he brings a practical mix of startup grit and enterprise-standard engineering, often tackling end-to-end challenges most engineers avoid.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Medieninformatik, Medieninformatik, Bachelor of Science Medieninformatik, Medieninformatik at Hochschule Düsseldorf (HSD) University of Applied Sciences
English, German
Github Skills (135)
storage10
amazon-s310
semantic-versioning10
single-file9
input-field9
sdk9
k8s9
rest-api9
hardware9
server9
truetype9
iconv9
opentype9
compile9
nodejs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dominiklessel/string-fingerprint
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
dominiklessel/node-restify-boilerplate
May 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:82 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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