Niklas TatBackend & Platform Engineer
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Experience

Stack & roles

Tech stack

Languages

JavaRustPythonJavaScript

Frameworks & testing

Spring BootSpringHibernateFlywayAxumNode.jsAngularOpenAPIJUnitMockitoPlaywright

Platform & CI/CD

KubernetesHelmDockerIstioGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsAnsibleTerraformBashGradleMavenSonarQubeGit

Cloud & infrastructure

AWSHetznerCloudflareDigitalOceanProxmoxRancherNginxHAProxypfSenseTomcat

Google Cloud

GKECompute EngineCloud RunCloud FunctionsCloud Load BalancingCloud ArmorCloud CDNCloud DNSCloud NATVPCPrivate Service ConnectIAMWorkload Identity FederationSecret ManagerCloud KMSCertificate ManagerSecurity Command CenterCloud SQLMemorystoreCloud StorageBigQueryArtifact RegistryCloud MonitoringCloud LoggingCloud TraceError ReportingConfig ConnectorDeployment Manager

Data & messaging

SQLPostgreSQLMariaDBMySQLMongoDBRedisKafkaRabbitMQSolrInfluxDBSQLite

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry

…and much more – the list grows with every project.

Roles

  1. 2023 - Present

    Eventfrog AG

    Backend & Platform Engineer

    Building backend services and gradually replacing the monolith with microservices. Building and running the platform with CI/CD, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging and alerting. Responsible for IT infrastructure, security and compliance.

  2. 2017 - 2022

    ByteStudio UG

    Partner, Backend Developer & DevOps

    As a partner: architecture and development of infrastructure, microservices and desktop and web applications. Process and test automation, operations and project planning.

  3. 2015 - 2022

    Freelancer

    Backend Developer

    Design and development of backend applications and infrastructure for various clients – including automation, maintenance and operations.