Lars Pickelin
Team Lead Backend (Networking Stack) at Hetzner Cloud GmbH
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
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Top SchoolLars Pickelin is a backend team lead with nine years of experience building cloud-native networking stacks at Hetzner Cloud, where he leads development of core networking services using Go, Python, Kubernetes, gRPC, and messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ. He moved quickly from backend developer to team lead, combining hands-on coding with operational ownership of containerized infrastructure and Terraform-driven provisioning. Lars has a practical background from a dual study in applied informatics and brings additional hands-on curiosity through private IoT projects that inform his systems thinking. Based in the Cologne–Bonn region, he focuses on reliable, scalable microservices and low-latency networked systems while balancing leadership and deep technical contribution.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Fachabitur + IT Assistent, Informatik, Fachabitur + IT Assistent, Informatik at BTR RemscheidMittlere Reife, Mittlere Reife at Realschule WermelskirchenBachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg
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Github Skills (58)
hetzner-cloud10
maintenance10
controller-manager10
k3s10
controller10
cloud-api10
hcloud10
terraform10
api10
producer10
segment10
volumes9
kubernetes9
terraform-provider9
hashicorp9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
4ND3R50N/twitch-smarthome-trigger
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
This tool can connect to your twitch channel and watch for commands to interact with your homeassistant. Example: "!szene blue" written in the twitch chat will activate a scene called "blue"
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
4ND3R50N/go-tools
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
This library contains useful helper functions to do things with lesser code. Examples: Map(), ToPointer(), Any().
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
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