Julian Picht
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Red Sift
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolJulian Picht is a Lead Infrastructure Engineer based in Hanover, Germany, with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating reliable systems across infrastructure, databases, and high-performance C++ services. He has progressed from web and C++ development to MySQL administration and system administration, now leading infrastructure work at Red Sift while shaping architecture and delivery. Julian contributes to open-source projects like libsurvive, where he implemented a core "disambiguator" component and tooling for a lighthouse tracking system—an example of his comfort solving low-level, performance-sensitive problems in C. His background includes freelance engineering and product-focused roles, giving him a pragmatic blend of operational rigor and developer empathy. He prefers to stay rooted in Hanover (not Berlin), signaling a strong local commitment alongside a broad technical footprint. Colleagues value him for steady technical leadership and the ability to turn complex debugging challenges into repeatable, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MMBBS Hannover
Github Skills (8)
c1710
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
c1110
data-structure10
debugging8
cmake4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
collabora/libsurvive
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Open Source Lighthouse Tracking System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 24 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Julian primarily worked on implementing a "disambiguator" within the `libsurvive` project. Their contributions involved creating and refining C code for this component, including initial implementations, debugging versions, and adaptive discarding mechanisms. The user integrated the disambiguator with the existing `survive_data.c` file, indicating an effort to incorporate it into the core functionality of the tracking system. They also developed a tool for testing the disambiguator, adding output updates to facilitate debugging.
htc-vivelighthouseopenvrtrackinghmd
jpicht/dns
Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
DNS library in Go
Contributions:10 pushes, 5 branches, 3 tags in 4 years 8 months
golangdnsdns-librarypowerdnscoredns
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