Summary
Joern Trefke is a software engineer with nine years of experience designing and shipping scalable, client-facing systems for organizations from research institutes to Meta. He excels at turning complex requirements into practical, maintainable solutions, having built distributed microservices, reactive single-page learning platforms, and web-based requirements and compliance tools. Joern blends strong backend expertise (Ruby, Java, AWS serverless, MySQL/DynamoDB) with front-end skills in TypeScript/Angular and a history of improving devops and CI/CD pipelines. His background in energy research and standards work gives him uncommon strengths in requirements engineering and interoperability, and he has a track record of moving prototypes into production. Fluent in German and English with conversational French, he brings international, cross-disciplinary experience to engineering teams in New York.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Dipl.-Inform.), Computer Science, Master of Science (Dipl.-Inform.), Computer Science at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
German, English, French, Spanish, Italian