Maria Soldatow
Head Of Software Engineering at OTTO
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolMaria Soldatow is a Head of Software Engineering with 12+ years of hands-on experience and over a decade leading and scaling cross-functional engineering teams across Germany and nearshore locations. She has driven agile and technical transformations—migrating monoliths to microservices, moving CMS to cloud-native CaaS/Next.js architectures, and quadrupling application performance for customer acquisition funnels. A seasoned people leader, she combines coaching, hiring, and employer-branding initiatives with operational rigor in observability, dependency management, and DevOps practices. Maria also contributes to open-source back-end projects like the widely used Openfire XMPP server, improving chat-room management and REST endpoints. Fluent in translating product vision into engineering outcomes, she’s known for building strong engineering culture and mentoring the next generation of women in tech.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Staats- und Munizipalverwaltung, Diplom, Staats- und Munizipalverwaltung at Kaluga North-West AcademyDiplom, Mathematik und Computerwissenschaft, Diplom, Mathematik und Computerwissenschaft at Leibniz Universität Hannover
German, English, Russian
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Github Skills (16)
api-rest10
javas10
xserver10
rest-api10
xmpp10
api-design10
openfire10
java10
restful-api10
xml9
peewee6
php6
android6
python6
rest6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
igniterealtime/Openfire
Jun 2014 - Aug 2018
An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 42 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Maria contributed to the MUC Service Plugin for Openfire, focusing on the backend functionality. Their work involved implementing features for managing chat room roles (owners, admins, members, outcasts) and developing endpoints for retrieving chat room participants. They also added UTF-8 support for readme and changelog files, and fixed an issue with an empty line in HTML code, which can break the layout. They made improvements to existing REST endpoints and added new ones.
openfirexmpp-serverxmpplicensedapache-license
igniterealtime/REST-API-Client
Apr 2015 - Aug 2022
Java REST API Client for the Openfire to manage Openfire instances by sending an REST/HTTP request to the server
Contributions:3 releases, 81 commits, 16 PRs in 7 years 5 months
api-clientapihttp-requestinstancesjava-rest-api
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