Fabian Barkhau
Back End Developer at Horizons
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolFabian Barkhau is a backend developer and technical lead with over a decade of experience building scalable systems for fintech, decentralized networks, and high-growth product teams. He began his career in German industry focused on application development and database engineering, then moved into freelance and startup roles where he specialized in payment protocols, micropayment channels, and P2P pub/sub systems. Fabian has led CRM and event-pipeline initiatives to enable reliable scaling at Preply and supported product and growth teams as a full-stack contributor at Oda. Based in Barcelona, he blends deep backend engineering with hands-on product execution and a taste for decentralization, reflected in past work on streaming networks and crypto wallets. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and quietly imaginative—his GitHub bio, "Living in dreams," hints at a curiosity that drives experimentation beyond the obvious.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, Computer Science, Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, Computer Science at mg.training GmbHStudying computer science bachelor, Studying computer science bachelor at Fachhochschule Darmstadt
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Github Skills (144)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
F483/tanzlove
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:56 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
StorjOld/dataserv-client
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 releases, 291 commits, 33 PRs in 8 months
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