Simon Schaefer
Staff Software Engineer at Sauce Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Schaefer is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 8 years of professional experience building backend systems and microservices. He has a strong practical background applying Domain-Driven Design and clean-code principles to take services from requirements to production, gained during roles at FinReach and now at Sauce Labs. Promoted internally from Senior to Staff at Sauce Labs, he blends hands-on Java/backend expertise with system-level thinking and mentoring. His academic background in Business Informatics and Social Sciences gives him an uncommon mix of technical rigor and user- or business-oriented perspective. Comfortable in both startup and scaled environments, he has driven core platform components and data migrations early in his career. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance domain clarity with operational simplicity.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Business Informatics at Technische Universität BerlinBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Social Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Social Sciences at RPTU Kaiserslautern-LandauSan Diego State University
English, German
Github Skills (71)
xcuitest10
kill10
appium-ios10
sandbox10
libimobiledevice10
corona9
linux9
golang9
slf4j9
operating-system9
ios9
jax-rs9
driver9
java9
documentation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
si-net/SiBot
Apr 2023 - May 2024
A command line client for chat-gpt with some helpful features build on top of it.
Contributions:3 PRs, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
JudgeSi/saucelabs-challenge
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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