Werner Siemens
Software Engineer
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWerner Siemens is a pragmatic software engineer and solutions architect with over 20 years of development and architecture experience and a decade and a half in technical leadership roles, specializing in Java, SQL, UNIX, RESTful APIs, and modern web UIs. He has led Agile/DevOps transformations and CI/CD adoption across telecom and ad-tech environments, shepherding monolith-to-microservice rewrites and large-scale retail integrations for companies like TELUS, Bell, and AcuityAds. Known as the “glue” between business and engineering, he breaks complex programs into pragmatic roadmaps while mentoring teams to right-size work and deliver measurable value. His background in economics, finance and early sales experience gives him a rare business-first perspective that informs product strategy and stakeholder alignment. Off the clock he’s a family man and self-declared beer aficionado, an understated detail that highlights his grounded, personable leadership style.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Urban and Regional Planning, Master of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen's UniversityBachelor of Business Administration Business Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration Business Finance at Brock UniversityPostgraduate Applied Information Technology Diploma Applied Software Development, Postgraduate Applied Information Technology Diploma Applied Software Development at ITI Information Technology Institute
German
Github Skills (27)
candy8
netlify7
scaffold7
springfox6
spring-boot6
spring-data-rest6
json-api6
spring6
java6
oai6
api5
eleventy5
json4
swagger4
api-documentation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stickhandle/candy-11ty
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
Candy is a quick-start scaffold for building sites. It's Eleventy with sugar on top. https://candy-11ty.netlify.com
Contributions:96 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 11 months
scaffoldeleventycandysugarsites
stickhandle/eleventy-candy
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
A scaffold for a quick start building with the Eleventy SSG
Contributions:74 pushes in 2 months
scaffoldeleventyssgquick-start11ty
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