Kerstin Puschke is a Senior Staff Developer with 11 years in production software engineering, currently leading platform work at Shopify from 2017 through today. She brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and Perl, designing distributed microservices architectures with REST and AMQP and operating robust MySQL-backed systems at scale. Her background blends hands-on engineering with academic rigor—a doctorate in economics and a Diplom in mathematics—paired with years of teaching and consulting on databases, Linux and scientific tooling. Known for building resilient services for high-traffic social and commerce platforms, she also translates complex research and data problems into practical, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Mathematics, Diplom Mathematics at Ruhr University Bochum
Doctorate Economics, Doctorate Economics at Freie Universität Berlin
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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