Lucca Hellriegel
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLucca Hellriegel is a Senior Data Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput, resilient back-end systems for IoT and enterprise platforms. He has designed and scaled event-driven architectures that process hundreds of thousands of devices and up to 100k events/sec, authored a millisecond-overhead rate limiter, and improved Kafka consumer safety through library-level rewrites. Comfortable across Go, Java/Spring and React, he has driven large API designs and reduced critical import jobs from hours to minutes for major automotive and retail customers. An active contributor to the Memex browser-extension project, Lucca focused on secure authentication and sync flows, demonstrating attention to robust, maintainable security plumbing often overlooked in features work. Based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and strong operational instincts rooted in both MS and BS computer science training.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of TübingenBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
authentication10
javascript10
user-authentication10
webextension10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
browser-extension10
api-design9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WorldBrain/Memex
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Browser extension to curate, annotate, and discuss the most valuable content and ideas on the web. As individuals, teams and communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucca primarily contributed to the authentication and synchronization features of the Memex browser extension. Their work focused on implementing a secure communication flow between the extension and a web application, including token generation and management. The user also addressed login state inconsistencies and integrated helper functions from a shared Memex library to improve the robustness and maintainability of the authentication logic.
web-extensionannotationsfull-text-searchnote-takingbrowser
LuccaHellriegel/tana-import-tools
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
My Obsidian-markdown to Tana-JSON-graph converter
Contributions:1 review, 77 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
kebab-casebinary-datadata-formatsformatsstruct
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