Malachi Soord
Lead Software Engineer at Vinted
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMalachi Soord is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience building resilient backend systems, developer toolchains, and deployment pipelines. He has driven production services at scale for companies like Vinted and GetYourGuide, working across PHP, Python, Go, Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD platforms such as Drone and Spinnaker. Equally comfortable in DevOps and full‑stack roles, he has improved testing clusters, onboarding flows, and multi-architecture Docker builds while contributing security and build improvements to open-source projects. His GitHub history shows pragmatic maintenance and enhancement work across notable projects—from energy-logging emoncms to the Symfony Monolog bundle and the Tasmota admin tooling—reflecting a focus on reliability, tooling, and automation. Malachi’s background in embedded/Android printing software and his long-standing interest in home automation give him a practical edge in integrating hardware-adjacent systems with cloud-native services. He combines deep hands-on implementation skills with a habit of improving developer experience and deployment robustness.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Software Engineering, B.Sc, Software Engineering at Durham UniversityBETEC, Information and Communications Technology, BETEC, Information and Communications Technology at Abingdon & Witney College
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Github Skills (61)
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emc10
simulation10
debugging10
monolog10
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
web-application10
python10
trading10
symfony-bundle10
browser-extension10
simulations10
bots10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
TasmoAdmin/TasmoAdmin
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
TasmoAdmin is an administrative platform for devices flashed with Tasmota
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:135 releases, 21 reviews, 230 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Malachi primarily contributed to the back-end logic and deployment processes. They refactored the password hashing implementation, enhancing security. The user was also responsible for initializing and improving the project's build process, including the Docker-based build process with multi-architecture builds and GitHub Actions. Further changes centered around optimizing the build and release pipelines.
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web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler
May 2014 - Jan 2023
Scrobble music all around the web!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 570 reviews, 486 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Malachi primarily contributed to adding and enhancing connectors for various web music platforms. These connectors facilitate the scrobbling of music data by integrating with different websites and extracting relevant information like artist, track, and album details. The user's work involved creating new integrations, such as with Archive.org, Bleep.com, and Bleep.com, as well as improving existing connectors for better functionality and compatibility with updated website structures. Additionally, the user addressed bugs and enhanced the user interface of the application.
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