Summary
Tobias Kerst is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native applications and engineering big-data tooling, currently working on modernizing the electric grid at SMIGHT GmbH. He is passionate about modern programming paradigms and languages such as Scala, Go and Rust, and has applied that interest to migration and showcase work during a master’s thesis at SAP. Tobias combines hands-on coding with clear communication—“jotting ideas as code” and explaining their impact to stakeholders—while also sketching architectures and diagrams when needed. Based in Karlsruhe, he brings a strong academic grounding in software engineering and media informatics, plus practical experience in automation, data visualization and operations from roles at inovex, SAP and Uniserv. He tends to favor pragmatic, language-forward solutions that scale from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik (Software Engineering), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik (Software Engineering) at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
English, German