Summary
Frank Wöckener is a seasoned software developer and systems architect based in Berlin with 14+ years building reliable, scalable web and distributed systems across startups and product teams. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby/Rails, asynchronous and microservice architectures, and Linux systems administration with product and team leadership, currently contributing at CHECK24 while running independent hardware and software projects. Frank’s background spans VoIP, SIP/video, async signal processing, ELK/Elasticsearch, and CI-driven deployments, reflecting deep operational experience as well as development. An O’Reilly author and avid HAM radio and IoT enthusiast, he brings a practical maker’s mindset to integrating physical devices with cloud services. Notably, he has implemented production-grade virtualized developer environments and built a VoIP microservice prototype shared publicly, underscoring his blend of craftsmanship and openness.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
kl. Staatsexamen, Physik & Philosophie, Lehramt, kl. Staatsexamen, Physik & Philosophie, Lehramt at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Abitur, Note 1.4, Abitur, Note 1.4 at Schulzentrum des Sekundarbereiches II am Rübekamp Bremen
German, English