Summary
Julien Dedek is an empathetic Engineering Manager based in Düsseldorf with 10 years of hands-on experience evolving from backend Python developer to team leader. He specializes in Python, Django, and Django REST Framework and has a track record of shipping biweekly platform releases, building APIs, and automating deployments with Ansible and Docker. At Metalshub he runs hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and process improvements while keeping a strong emphasis on one-on-ones, feedback culture and measurable team goals. Julien pairs technical depth—writing E2E tests, resolving Sentry issues, and creating Ansible roles—with customer-facing work such as technical calls and solution presentations. He is pragmatic about engineering practices, introducing things like asynchronous retrospectives to improve team efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
English, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian