Patrick Kranz
Software Development Engineer (SDE III) at Amazon
Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Top SchoolPatrick Kranz is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience and a decade-long focus on Java, currently an SDE III at Amazon building scalable, production-grade systems. He has led backend teams and architected high-availability platforms for air cargo and large consumer portals, bringing hands-on expertise in microservices, CQRS/Event Sourcing, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Spring, and deployment automation with Ansible. Known for a pragmatic commitment to quality and usability, he champions clean code, CI/CD and sensible API design to avoid adding more "broken software" to the world. His background spans full-stack concerns—from SSO and OAuth2 to infrastructure orchestration—and includes guiding teams through architecture, testing practices and DevOps. Based in Trier, Germany, he combines systems-thinking with developer empathy and a curiosity for languages beyond Java, such as Ruby.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, 2,2, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, 2,2 at Hochschule Trier
German, English
Github Skills (28)
database-migrations10
flyway10
cassandra10
redgate10
migration10
aurora10
database-management10
migration-tool10
postgresql9
database-deployment9
continuous-deployment9
liquibase9
java9
continuous-delivery9
database-administration9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
patka/IntegrationGame
Aug 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 6 months
patka/cassandra-migration
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Schema migration library for Cassandra
Contributions:13 reviews, 225 commits, 33 PRs in 6 years 9 months
cassandradatabase-migrationsmigration-schemamigrationlibrary-migration
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