Lars Opitz
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at eBay
Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolLars Opitz is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years of experience driving engineering excellence at eBay, where he currently serves as Senior Member of Technical Staff. He combines hands-on technical depth with a strong advocacy for agile practices and software craftsmanship, helping teams deliver customer-centric products faster and with higher quality. Previously he led and mentored cross-functional teams at StubHub, mobile.de and gematik, shaping architectures for large-scale web and microservice systems while enforcing maintainable code and testing standards. Lars is known for fostering collaborative cultures that value diverse opinions, continuous learning, and work-life balance—practices he treats as levers for sustained innovation. Based in Kleinmachnow, Germany, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering management and technical leadership grounded in an applied computer science education. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he consistently emphasizes process and people improvements as much as architecture, believing organizational craftsmanship is as critical as code craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. (FH), applied computer science, Dipl.-Inf. (FH), applied computer science at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
German, English
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Github Skills (33)
sdk10
obsolete10
testing9
java9
sink9
spring9
producer9
spring-boot9
rest9
png9
extensible9
request-response9
apache-kafka8
java-api8
workbench8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lopitz/kafka-picture-consumer
May 2015 - May 2022
Simple sample Kafka consumer that reads PNG data from Kafka and show them on the screen.
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 7 years 1 month
sinkkafka-consumerkafka-sampleproducerkafka
lopitz/kafka-picture-producer
May 2015 - May 2022
Simple sample Kafka producer that reads PNG files from a directory and stores them into Kafka.
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 1 month
sinkapache-kafkakafka-sampleproducerdirectory
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