Paul Biester is an engineering manager and former principal software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems in Java, AWS, and Terraform, currently leading teams at STACKIT in Berlin. He has a strong track record modernizing and migrating critical enterprise systems—most notably at Air France and idealo—while balancing hands-on development and technical leadership. Comfortable across the stack, Paul blends backend architecture, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code with a history of tech-lead roles on complex projects like EFB and command-and-control tooling. Off-duty he runs an active homelab and automates his home with Home Assistant, reflecting a continuous curiosity for systems automation and practical IoT integration. Fluent in cross-disciplinary collaboration, he brings pragmatic solutions born from both product-focused and operational perspectives.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at IUT 'A' Paul Sabatier
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Informatique, Informatique at ENSEEIHT
Baccalauréat STI2D SIN, Baccalauréat STI2D SIN at Lycée International Victor Hugo
MSA, MSA at Droste-Hühlshoff-Gymnasium
L3 MIASHS, L3 MIASHS at Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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