Harry Herbig
Senior Platform & Backend Engineer T-online.de
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Herbig is a Senior Platform and Backend Engineer based in Berlin with 10+ years building and operating large-scale, cost-conscious distributed systems for major German news portals. He led the technical relaunches of welt.de and t-online.de, designing microservice-based delivery layers, event-driven sync pipelines, and production AI (RAG/LLMs) integrations while owning architecture through production operations. Pragmatic about performance and reliability, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership in You Build It You Run It teams and a strong focus on user-facing product outcomes. Currently open to remote-first or hybrid platform engineering and leadership roles, he brings deep AWS/IaC experience and a maker’s curiosity evident from long-term contributions to high-throughput news platforms.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Diplom, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Universität Siegen
English
Github Skills (142)
python10
testing10
api10
lambda10
developer-tools10
continuous-integration10
aws-lambda10
serverless-framework10
ecr10
localstack10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
buzz10
dynamodb9
testcafe9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
spring-media/1up-fnk-docker-node-chrome-headless
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
Dockerfile for CI in docker with node, yarn and chrome headless preinstalled
Contributions:7 releases, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 4 months
dockerfiledocker-imageyarndockerchrome
spring-media/rbbt-WeltContentApiClient
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
Content API client for the Play!Framework
Contributions:103 PRs, 92 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
api-clientapiphpplay-frameworkcontent-api
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