It all began over 25 years ago. Sitting in front of my Commodore 64 printing out my name in BASIC and from that moment, seeing my name, white text on a blue background, my passion for software and everything around it, began.

This passion has taken me to various areas within software development and given me more than 15 years of professional experience and I have been driven by an intellectual curiosity to explore and learn and I have built my knowledge and career with a variety of roles, responsibilities, technologies and methodologies over the years.

I have had the opportunity and pleasure to work with software development - frontend as well as backend, databases and platform architecture. I have experience in designing UI and UX and numerous methodologies. I have specialised in SaaS applications and the architecture it depends on in order to run stable, scalable, secure and efficient.

Along my journey I also discovered a new passion: leadership. I believe that leadership is a responsibility, not a power, and that people cannot work as a team if they do not see themselves as being part of a team or feel ownership of the product. As lead I am driven by the opportunity to both empower and enrich my team as well as the product and company. I am committed to engage team members to promote team-feeling, dynamically solve problems and deliver the highest quality solutions, to meet deadlines, reach goals and to increase communication. My leadership style is ambitious and quickly adapts to changes, internal as well as external. I embrace all aspects of a product or organization and incorporate both the business and the consumers together with development, design and other relevant stakeholders to deliver the best product.

Overall I find the ability to combine my technical experience with leadership incredibly meaningful and fulfilling and I carry my past experiences forward.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES Java, Go/Golang, Python, PHP, JavaScript (including React, Angular, Vue.js, jQuery and more), Bash, SQL, Clojure, SmallTalk

DATABASE PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, MongoDB, CouchDB/CouchBase

DEVOPS & ARCHITECTURE CI/CD, ElasticSearch, GIT, Apache, Nginx, AWS, Google Cloud, WebSocket, NodeJS, Redis, Docker

SYSTEM-ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN METHODOLOGIES UML, Agile, SCRUM, TDD, DDD, OOP, MVC, GRASP, GOF, MVVM, Clean Architecture

UI DESIGN & UX Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, CSS, Zeplin

Feel free to contact me directly at [email protected] See my Github at github.com/Mestika