Uwe Geercken
Senior Data Engineer
Sophienhamm, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolUwe Geercken is a Senior Data Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating real-time data platforms across finance, aviation, and services. He specializes in Kafka-centered architectures, NiFi, Neo4j, the Elastic Stack, containerization (Docker/Podman/Openshift) and automation with Ansible, bringing deep Java and SQL expertise alongside ETL and scripting skills. At SIGNAL IDUNA and Swissport he led the shift to real-time, secure, high-quality data processing and introduced observability and search with ELK. A practical all-rounder, Uwe blends low-level Linux know-how with modern microservices, CI/CD and policy tooling (OPA, JWT, Jenkins). He maintains an active GitHub and a technical blog, frequently experimenting with DuckDB and KuzuDB—tools that hint at his interest in lightweight, high-performance analytics. Fluent in German, Italian and English, he is curious, adaptable and driven to simplify complex data problems into reliable production solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Hermann-Tast Gymnasium Husum
German, English, Italian
Stackoverflow
21reputation
613reached
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2questions
Github Skills (86)
stream-processing10
pdi10
jar10
rule-engine10
stream10
interactive10
sql10
ksqldb10
business-rules10
database10
kafka-connect10
dispatcher10
kafka10
dmn10
java10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uwegeercken/jareplugin
Mar 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:50 pushes in 5 years 6 months
uwegeercken/hop-uit
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Hop Ultimate Import Tool
Contributions:40 commits, 37 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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