Summary
Larry Almeida is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Berlin with nine years of experience building high-performance, scalable online retail systems at Zalando and startups. He blends full-stack fluency—TypeScript, React/Ember, Node/Nest, GraphQL, PostgreSQL/MongoDB—with cloud-native practices using Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, and AWS to deliver robust, A/B-tested solutions. Larry moves comfortably between engineering, product, design and data teams, drawing on prior talent-acquisition experience to foster psychologically safe, high-performance teams. He champions clean code, TDD, KISS and YAGNI while mentoring engineers and contributing to developer experience initiatives. Outside engineering he brings a curiosity in anthropology and a pragmatic scientific mindset that informs user-centered, sustainable product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at St. Joseph's Engineering College
Konkani, English, Hindi