Willi Eßer
Senior Software Engineer at Emma – The Sleep Company
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolWilli Eßer is a Senior Software Engineer from Leipzig with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and enterprise systems, currently shaping event-driven order management at Emma – The Sleep Company. He brings strong backend expertise in Go, PHP and Node.js, plus hands-on SRE experience designing Kubernetes operators and database runtime tooling for managed cloud services. Willi has led and grown a remote Go engineering team for large enterprise PaaS projects, blending technical leadership with a pragmatic, structure-focused approach to software architecture. Comfortable across the stack, he also pursues creative work in Blender and Photoshop, which informs his eye for crafted solutions and team communication. Known for advocating thoughtful reuse over blind adoption, he pairs continual learning with practical delivery for high-reliability systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Leistungskurse Mathematik & Geschichte, Leistungskurse Mathematik & Geschichte at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, LöbauFachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwickler IT Specialist, Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwickler IT Specialist at IHK zu Leipzig
English, German
Github Skills (94)
protocol-buffers10
protobuf10
serialization10
polymer9
protoc9
minify-css9
rpc9
in-progress8
marshalling8
abstraction8
data-interchange8
jquery-plugin8
interchange8
code-coverage8
collections8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
troublete/ogf-wendland.de
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 306 pushes, 82 branches in 1 year 9 months
jekyll
try-php/tapping
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
testingjavascripttypescriptatomic
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