Robert Barbey
Lead Engineer at Markup AI
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRobert Barbey is a Lead Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and leading engineering teams from frontend to core platform. He architects cloud-native Java and Go services deployed on Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD, and designs central infrastructure like Apache Pulsar message queues and secure authentication systems. Equally comfortable writing code and making technical decisions, he has managed teams of up to 11 engineers while also owning shared CI pipelines and runners. Trained in computational linguistics, he began in editor integrations and C++/VB6 before shifting to backend and platform leadership, giving him an uncommon fluency across legacy client integrations and modern microservices.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at The University of EdinburghDiploma Computer Science Computational Linguistics, Diploma Computer Science Computational Linguistics at Universität des Saarlandes
German, English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
messaging10
scribe10
testing10
openldap10
rest-api10
streaming10
api10
rest10
ldap10
java10
hibernate10
slapd10
jersey-framework10
docker10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rbarbey/dropwizard
Mar 2016 - May 2021
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 2 months
apiproduction-readyrestfulweb-servicesweb-services-restful
rbarbey/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:161 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 9 months
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