Silas Schwarz

Silas Schwarz

Software Developer

Berlin, Germany
mail@silas.dev

About

Develops software professionally with expertise in Kotlin and Spring Boot. Advocates for Android as the superior mobile OS.

🏃 running 🧗 climbing ✈️ traveling

Experience

Senior Staff Software Engineer
Mobimeo / ReachNow, Berlin
10/2019–Present
  • Maintained 4 Kotlin/Spring microservices and Angular admin frontend
  • Converted services to reactive architecture using Project Reactor
  • Implemented observability with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
  • CI/CD via GitHub Actions, deployed on AWS ECS and Kubernetes
Spring WebFlux r2dbc Arrow Jooq Flyway Kotlin
Software Developer
AOE GmbH, Wiesbaden
07/2015–09/2019
  • Backend developer for Congstar App (Spring/Java)
  • Native Android developer for Congstar App (RxAndroid, Retrofit, Dagger)
  • Migrated PHP monolith to Spring Boot microservices in Groovy/Kotlin
  • Project OM3: Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Jenkins/GitLab CI
Spring Boot Kotlin Android AWS Lambda Kubernetes
Software Developer
DER Touristik GmbH, Frankfurt
01/2012–06/2015
  • Source code generator maintenance
  • J2EE backend services
  • RCP client/framework development
J2EE RCP Java
IT-Consultant
PRODYNA AG, Frankfurt
05/2007–12/2011
  • Multiple clients: DER, Lufthansa Systems, CENIT, BASF
  • RCP development, J2EE backend, code generation
  • Outsourced team management
RCP J2EE Java Consulting

Skills

Kotlin
Expert

Production Kotlin across backend microservices and Android apps.

Spring Boot
Expert

Spring MVC & WebFlux, reactive architecture, deep framework knowledge.

Android
Experienced

Native Android development with modern Jetpack and RxAndroid.

Education

BSc Computer Science University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
2004–2007
Sun Certified Java Programmer Sun Microsystems
2009

Languages

German Native
English Professional

Testimonial

"Silas Schwarz is an excellent Eclipse RCP developer"

— Christian Trutz, Freelance Software Developer & Consultant