Ulrich Matthiae is an engineering team lead with around a decade of experience designing, building and maintaining enterprise-grade web applications, primarily on Java and JavaScript stacks after an earlier .NET focus. He has led teams for major clients in the insurance and healthcare sectors, selecting technologies, enforcing engineering best practices, and mentoring developers to deliver sustainable, continuous software. Comfortable across front-end frameworks (Angular, Bootstrap, Thymeleaf) and backend ecosystems (Spring, Hibernate, MicroProfile) he also brings strong SQL Server and integration experience from BI and SAP projects. Known for organizing and presenting internal training, he blends hands-on development with a teaching mindset, helping raise team capability as well as product quality. Pragmatic and YAGNI-minded, Ulrich balances disciplined architecture with practical delivery and has a track record of calming difficult client relationships while keeping projects on course. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he pairs domain knowledge in insurance and rewards systems with a proactive appetite for evaluating new technologies.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Certificate (With Distinction), Matric Certificate (With Distinction) at Kanonkop High
Bcom, Informatics (Hons) - Incomplete, Bcom, Informatics (Hons) - Incomplete at University of Pretoria
An example app using spring cloud and mongo-db to showcase how one could build an online API for a flight booking site
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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