Summary
Meinert Schwartau is a freelance software developer and architect based in Hamburg with over 10 years of experience designing and delivering JEE and enterprise-quality systems. He emphasizes readable, well-tested code, continuous refactoring, and architectures without layer violations to ensure long-term maintainability. His background spans hands-on development with Hibernate, Spring, AspectJ, EJB and GWT, and leadership experience as a Lead Developer at Kuehne+Nagel. Meinert thrives in agile teams, prioritizes clear communication and mentoring, and measures success by the positive, lasting impact he leaves on products and colleagues. As a freelancer since 2018, he pairs pragmatic engineering discipline with an architect’s view to balance simplicity and necessary complexity.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Technische Informatik, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Technische Informatik at Fachhochschule Wedel