Willi Mentzel
Senior Backend Engineer (AI) at ChosenBytes
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolWilli Mentzel is a Senior Backend Engineer with nine years of experience, currently building Staffbase's AI Assistant and running media-management microservices. He specializes in resilient, test-driven backend systems (notably in Go) and has a track record of reducing incident rates by creating cross-service API test frameworks and custom recovery tools that restored 100% of lost data. A hands-on mentor and interviewer, he regularly coaches interns, apprentices and junior engineers and codifies hiring tasks to raise team quality. Based in Dresden, he blends backend depth with product-focused thinking and recently took on leadership as a managing partner at ChosenBytes, signaling a growing interest in entrepreneurial and strategic responsibilities.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Medieninformatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Medieninformatik at Technische Universität Dresden
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event-handling10
java10
android10
kotlin-coroutines9
bitwise-operators9
database-dump9
android-intent9
recycling9
perl9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wmentzel/file-chooser
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:37 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
wmentzel/jlocker
Jun 2016 - Mar 2024
From 2009: A locker manager which is able to manage multiple buildings with lockers inside them. Features include a multi-user system and distance optimization which finds the nearest available locker to a given class room.
Contributions:1 PR, 68 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 9 months
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