Summary
Sönke Tölke is a Senior Application Developer with six years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, specializing in DevOps, Kotlin and managed Kubernetes platforms. He has delivered end-to-end solutions across public sector and commercial projects—operationalizing microservices on OpenShift and architecting Azure-based streaming and industrial systems with Helm, FluxCD, Prometheus and ECK. Comfortable across backend stacks (Kotlin, Java, C#, Node.js) and infrastructure automation (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker), he bridges development and operations to reduce time-to-production. Prior roles include full-stack and middleware work integrating SaaS tools and automating business processes, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability. Based in Bochum, he pairs engineering depth with a product-minded approach, often taking on solution-architect responsibilities beyond pure implementation.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Dortmund