Summary
Steffen Paul is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer and tech lead with 11 years of experience designing resilient, cost-efficient systems for high-scale web and depot operations. He repeatedly delivers performance and observability improvements—reducing response times by ~30%, cutting incident reaction times up to 50%, and slashing logging and license costs through pragmatic modernization. Comfortable across JVM, Go, Python, JavaScript and legacy RPG, he has led unification efforts to simplify stacks and migrated teams to cloud-native GCP and Kubernetes-based workflows. He pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership, coaching and onboarding multiple colleagues during internalization phases and improving team productivity and QA automation. Based in Düsseldorf, he now builds desktop VoIP/communication client features at sipgate while continuing to champion unified backend languages and modern CI/CD tooling. A lifelong learner and polyglot, he favors pragmatic process changes that maximize developer productivity and reduce operational burden.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at University of Düsseldorf