Malte Pickhan
Principal Software Engineer at Zalando
Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMalte Pickhan is a Principal Software Engineer based in Waltrop, Germany, with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend systems at Zalando, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Principal since 2015. He combines deep hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, guiding teams through complex e-commerce challenges and long-lived platform evolution. His career includes diverse product and integration work across telecom and enterprise software at tyntec, cosinex, and Evision, giving him a pragmatic, system-level perspective. Trained in computer science at TU Dortmund, he’s comfortable navigating both legacy constraints and modern distributed architectures. Colleagues know him for steady delivery and mentorship—translating business needs into maintainable, production-grade solutions. An often-overlooked strength is his continuity: long tenures at key employers reflect both technical ownership and durable impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at TU Dortmund University
German, English
Github Skills (200)
composition10
orientdb10
proxy10
coverage10
fallback10
jenkins-plugin10
test-coverage10
feature-flags10
gwt10
spring-mvc10
uid10
mosaic10
spring-web10
istanbul10
http-router10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zalando-incubator/stups-cassandra
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:27 PRs, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
aws-environmentdocker-imagecassandraappliancedocker
zalando/failsafe-actuator
Jul 2016 - Sep 2021
Endpoint library for the failsafe framework
Contributions:168 commits, 96 PRs, 152 pushes in 5 years 3 months
javascriptnodejsendpointfailsafe
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