Ferdinand Swoboda
Software Engineering Team Lead at Picnic Technologies
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFerdinand Swoboda is a software engineering team lead based in Amsterdam with nine years of experience building resilient, developer-friendly backend systems across e‑commerce and supply chain domains. At Picnic Technologies he has progressed from engineer to senior lead, designing fulfilment orchestration for automated and manual warehouses and streamlining Customer Success systems while growing a versatile, productive team. He combines strong Java, Spring, and cloud-native tooling experience (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS) with hands-on work in data stores and messaging to simplify APIs and operational complexity. Ferdinand has academic teaching experience in software design and complex systems, reflecting a habit of explaining hard engineering concepts clearly and mentoring others. He pursues sustainability and elegant software in equal measure, and is motivated by practical impact—shipping systems that make high-throughput logistics both efficient and robust. An appetite for good food hints at a pragmatic, human-centered approach to team culture and product design.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Computer Science, Computer Science at Technical University of MunichAllgemeine Hochschulreife, Allgemeine Hochschulreife at Gymnasium Fürstenried WestThe University of Melbourne
German, English
Github Skills (98)
jooq10
json-objects10
microservices10
cloud-native10
slf4j10
monitoring10
code-generator10
facade10
observability10
java10
sql-formatter10
ddl9
sql-query9
plsql9
relationship9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ferdinand-swoboda/dotfiles
Jan 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
ferdinand-swoboda/folo
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
A jOOQ object-relational loader.
Contributions:3 releases, 59 commits, 131 PRs in 9 months
relationaljooqsqljavaobject-relational
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