Johannes Huning
Systems Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJohannes Huning is a Berlin-based systems engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, distributed services for games, travel, and enterprise ventures. He focuses on delivering customer and business value through lean and agile practices, having led architecture, SRE groundwork, and performance optimization across Kubernetes, Go, Erlang, and large-scale data pipelines. As a former Director of Engineering and longtime senior engineer, he blends hands-on implementation with team mentorship, hiring, and process standardization to reduce complexity and cut maintenance costs. Notably, he introduced Go for performance-critical services and built ETL and analytics platforms handling hundreds of millions of events daily. He markets himself as a freelance distributed systems expert and explicitly avoids Java/Spring projects, reflecting a clear technical preference and pragmatic approach to technology choices.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (unfinished), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (unfinished), Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (152)
benchmark10
kubernetes-security10
code-generator10
golang10
buf10
otp10
mesh9
client-library9
gleam9
sql9
protobuf9
grpc9
atlantis9
kube-bench9
terraform9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
complex64/protoc-gen-go-firestore
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Generate Google Firestore bindings for Go from your .proto files.
Contributions:28 reviews, 93 commits, 76 PRs in 4 months
golangfirestoreprotofirebaseprotoc-plugin
tenjin/go-metrics-prometheus
May 2019 - Dec 2023
Prometheus support for go-metrics
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
golangprometheus-exportergo-metricsprometheusmetrics
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