Robert Will is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience designing and delivering web-scale backend systems, data pipelines, and testable architectures. He has progressed from hands-on test engineering at Google and ImmobilienScout24 to building data lakes and ETL pipelines at Scout24 and driving backend architecture and product ownership at FRIDAY Insurance. Comfortable across Java, Node.js, Scala/Spark and cloud-native AWS stacks, he combines pragmatic engineering with product-focused prioritization to split large projects into high-value increments. Colleagues rely on him for API design, build automation and making complex, matured systems modular and maintainable. An academic background in computer science (TU Ilmenau, University of Toronto) underpins a methodical approach to shipping reliable, production-grade software.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, A/A+, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, A/A+ at University of Toronto
Dipl.-Inf., Informatics, 1,2, Dipl.-Inf., Informatics, 1,2 at TU Ilmenau
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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Robert Will - Staff Software Engineer at FRIDAY Insurance