Senior AWS Cloud Infrastructure & Data Engineer | Cloud Architect
Aktualisiert am 30.04.2026
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Verfügbar ab: 18.05.2026
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AWS
Data Engineer
Cloud Infrastructure
Full Stack Software Engineering
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
Cloud Security
C#
Python
agiles Projektmanagement
DevOps Engineer
Azure Devops
Apache Flink
Kafka
Data Lake
German
Muttersprache
English
C1 (Toefl IBT: 109)

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Köln (+50km)
Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

1 Monat
2026-04 - 2026-04

Secure IAC CI/CD Pipelines with Integrated Security Scanning

Cloud Architect AWS Cloud Architect Cloud Security ...
Cloud Architect

The client needed a modern, secure, and fully automated Terraform deployment pipeline. Their existing workflow lacked security scanning, governance, and auditability.

  • Designed and implemented state?of?the?art Terraform CI/CD pipeline with automated security scanning (static analysis, policy-as-code, secrets detection).

  • Built POC pipeline architecture enabling safe multi?environment deployments.

  • Conducted security audit, identifying critical vulnerabilities across networking, IAM, and secrets management.

  • Created with stakeholders, including network segmentation, WAF introduction, and improved secrets lifecycle.

  • Reduced infrastructure deployment risk significantly.

  • Enabled the client to adopt secure-by-default cloud practices.

  • Provided a roadmap that improved their overall cloud security posture.

Terraform GitHub AWS
AWS Cloud Architect Cloud Security GitHub DevOps
Köln
1 Jahr 6 Monate
2024-10 - 2026-03

Time Series Analytics Platform for High?Frequency Telemetry Data

Cloud Architect / Software Engineer ML Python Kubernetes ...
Cloud Architect / Software Engineer

Project Overview

 The client required a scalable platform capable of ingesting, processing, and analyzing large volumes of high?frequency time series data. Their existing tooling was fragmented, slow, and unable to support real?time analytics or machine learning workloads.


My Contribution

I initiated and led the project from the initial concept phase. This included defining the vision, presenting the business case to stakeholders, securing budget, and assembling a small engineering team to deliver the MVP.


Key Achievements

  • Designed the full architecture for a cloud?native time series analytics platform supporting both real?time and batch processing.

  • Implemented a streaming data pipeline using Kafka to reliably ingest and distribute time series data from multiple sources.

  • Built distributed processing components using PySpark and Python to compute metrics and prepare data for downstream analytics.

  • Developed a real?time anomaly detection system using Numpy and RiverML, deployed on ECS containers for scalable inference.

  • Established operational foundations including monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.

  • Coordinated a team of three engineers and collaborated with data scientists and domain experts to refine requirements and validate outputs.

Impact

  • Delivered an MVP enabling real?time insights into system performance and operational anomalies.

  • Provided a scalable foundation for future predictive analytics and machine learning initiatives.

  • Reduced manual analysis effort and improved the speed and accuracy of decision?making across teams.

ECS AWS Iceberg Flink Spark
ML Python Kubernetes Helm S3 Flink Iceberg
1 Jahr 2 Monate
2023-10 - 2024-11

Multi?Account AWS Landing Zone & Enterprise Cloud Security Overhaul

Cloud Architect / Engineer Python AWS Cloud Architect ...
Cloud Architect / Engineer

The client operated 15+ AWS accounts with >$1M annual spend but lacked centralized governance, security controls, and consistent deployment practices.


Solution
  • Designed and deployed a new AWS Landing Zone with SSO, automated compliance checks, and continuous security evaluation.
  • Identified and helped mitigate 100+ initial security issues across accounts.
  • Implemented AWS Config?based compliance evaluation aligned with internal security standards.
  • Built a multi?account CI/CD deployment strategy using Azure DevOps + Terraform.
  • Delivered weekly cloud engineering workshops to upskill internal teams.

Impact:
  • Achieved a secure, scalable multi?account AWS environment.
  • Reduced operational overhead and improved compliance visibility.
  • Standardized deployments across all engineering teams.

AWS Azure Devops
Python AWS Cloud Architect Cloud Security C# ECS EKS
1 Jahr 9 Monate
2021-11 - 2023-07

Backend + Data Engineer for Live Sports Analytics

Cloud Application Developer Python MLOps Lambda ...
Cloud Application Developer

As part of the engineering team behind Bundesliga Match Facts, I contributed to building one of the most advanced real?time sports analytics platforms in professional football. The system ingests live match data, processes it through multiple analytics services, and delivers insights to broadcasters, clubs, and fans within seconds.

I served as a core backend engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the data backbone that powers the analytics pipeline.

  • Led development of a new Kafka?based backend enabling high?throughput, low?latency communication between analytics services and data ingestion layers.

  • Designed and implemented two new Match Facts (Skill and Set Piece Threat), from concept to production deployment.

  • Refactored major parts of the platform, improving reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

  • Built event?driven microservices using Python, deployed on AWS ECS, with DynamoDB and Lambda for supporting workloads.

  • Ensured the system met strict performance requirements for live broadcast environments.

  • Collaborated closely with data scientists, frontend teams, and AWS architects to deliver new features on tight timelines.

  • Enabled real?time delivery of advanced football analytics to millions of viewers.

  • Improved system stability and throughput during peak match?day load.

  • Contributed to features highlighted in official AWS publications.

AWS Bitbucket React
Python MLOps Lambda ECS Docker DevOps TypeScript Terraform CDK

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

3 Jahre 2 Monate
2018-10 - 2021-11

Computer Science

Master of Science, RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, NRW, Germany
Master of Science
RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, NRW, Germany
  • Minor in Math
  • Thesis: ?on request?
5 Monate
2020-01 - 2020-05

Computer Science

No Degree, University Of Florida - Gainesvi le, Florida, USA
No Degree
University Of Florida - Gainesvi le, Florida, USA
3 Jahre 1 Monat
2015-10 - 2018-10

Computer Science

Bachelor of Science, University Of Ulm - Ulm, BW, Germany
Bachelor of Science
University Of Ulm - Ulm, BW, Germany
  • Minored in Physics
  • Thesis: "on request" 

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

AWS Data Engineer Cloud Infrastructure Full Stack Software Engineering Terraform Infrastructure as Code Cloud Security C# Python agiles Projektmanagement DevOps Engineer Azure Devops Apache Flink Kafka Data Lake

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Infrastructure as Code:

  • AWS CDK
  • Terraform
  • AWS Cloudformation 


Technologies:

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Github Actions
  • Git
  • Apache Kafka
  • MQTT 


Side Projects

  • Digital Board Game in Go (Backend) + TypeScript
  • Github
    • NBA Game Simulator from PlayByPlay Data
    • Kaggle - March Madness Basketbal Predictions
  • Kaggle
  • Academic Papers 2023: Structural Node Embeddings with Homomorphism Counts  

Programmiersprachen

Python
C#/.NET
GoLang
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
SQL
DynamoDB
React
Spark
Flink

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Köln (+50km)
Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

1 Monat
2026-04 - 2026-04

Secure IAC CI/CD Pipelines with Integrated Security Scanning

Cloud Architect AWS Cloud Architect Cloud Security ...
Cloud Architect

The client needed a modern, secure, and fully automated Terraform deployment pipeline. Their existing workflow lacked security scanning, governance, and auditability.

  • Designed and implemented state?of?the?art Terraform CI/CD pipeline with automated security scanning (static analysis, policy-as-code, secrets detection).

  • Built POC pipeline architecture enabling safe multi?environment deployments.

  • Conducted security audit, identifying critical vulnerabilities across networking, IAM, and secrets management.

  • Created with stakeholders, including network segmentation, WAF introduction, and improved secrets lifecycle.

  • Reduced infrastructure deployment risk significantly.

  • Enabled the client to adopt secure-by-default cloud practices.

  • Provided a roadmap that improved their overall cloud security posture.

Terraform GitHub AWS
AWS Cloud Architect Cloud Security GitHub DevOps
Köln
1 Jahr 6 Monate
2024-10 - 2026-03

Time Series Analytics Platform for High?Frequency Telemetry Data

Cloud Architect / Software Engineer ML Python Kubernetes ...
Cloud Architect / Software Engineer

Project Overview

 The client required a scalable platform capable of ingesting, processing, and analyzing large volumes of high?frequency time series data. Their existing tooling was fragmented, slow, and unable to support real?time analytics or machine learning workloads.


My Contribution

I initiated and led the project from the initial concept phase. This included defining the vision, presenting the business case to stakeholders, securing budget, and assembling a small engineering team to deliver the MVP.


Key Achievements

  • Designed the full architecture for a cloud?native time series analytics platform supporting both real?time and batch processing.

  • Implemented a streaming data pipeline using Kafka to reliably ingest and distribute time series data from multiple sources.

  • Built distributed processing components using PySpark and Python to compute metrics and prepare data for downstream analytics.

  • Developed a real?time anomaly detection system using Numpy and RiverML, deployed on ECS containers for scalable inference.

  • Established operational foundations including monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.

  • Coordinated a team of three engineers and collaborated with data scientists and domain experts to refine requirements and validate outputs.

Impact

  • Delivered an MVP enabling real?time insights into system performance and operational anomalies.

  • Provided a scalable foundation for future predictive analytics and machine learning initiatives.

  • Reduced manual analysis effort and improved the speed and accuracy of decision?making across teams.

ECS AWS Iceberg Flink Spark
ML Python Kubernetes Helm S3 Flink Iceberg
1 Jahr 2 Monate
2023-10 - 2024-11

Multi?Account AWS Landing Zone & Enterprise Cloud Security Overhaul

Cloud Architect / Engineer Python AWS Cloud Architect ...
Cloud Architect / Engineer

The client operated 15+ AWS accounts with >$1M annual spend but lacked centralized governance, security controls, and consistent deployment practices.


Solution
  • Designed and deployed a new AWS Landing Zone with SSO, automated compliance checks, and continuous security evaluation.
  • Identified and helped mitigate 100+ initial security issues across accounts.
  • Implemented AWS Config?based compliance evaluation aligned with internal security standards.
  • Built a multi?account CI/CD deployment strategy using Azure DevOps + Terraform.
  • Delivered weekly cloud engineering workshops to upskill internal teams.

Impact:
  • Achieved a secure, scalable multi?account AWS environment.
  • Reduced operational overhead and improved compliance visibility.
  • Standardized deployments across all engineering teams.

AWS Azure Devops
Python AWS Cloud Architect Cloud Security C# ECS EKS
1 Jahr 9 Monate
2021-11 - 2023-07

Backend + Data Engineer for Live Sports Analytics

Cloud Application Developer Python MLOps Lambda ...
Cloud Application Developer

As part of the engineering team behind Bundesliga Match Facts, I contributed to building one of the most advanced real?time sports analytics platforms in professional football. The system ingests live match data, processes it through multiple analytics services, and delivers insights to broadcasters, clubs, and fans within seconds.

I served as a core backend engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the data backbone that powers the analytics pipeline.

  • Led development of a new Kafka?based backend enabling high?throughput, low?latency communication between analytics services and data ingestion layers.

  • Designed and implemented two new Match Facts (Skill and Set Piece Threat), from concept to production deployment.

  • Refactored major parts of the platform, improving reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

  • Built event?driven microservices using Python, deployed on AWS ECS, with DynamoDB and Lambda for supporting workloads.

  • Ensured the system met strict performance requirements for live broadcast environments.

  • Collaborated closely with data scientists, frontend teams, and AWS architects to deliver new features on tight timelines.

  • Enabled real?time delivery of advanced football analytics to millions of viewers.

  • Improved system stability and throughput during peak match?day load.

  • Contributed to features highlighted in official AWS publications.

AWS Bitbucket React
Python MLOps Lambda ECS Docker DevOps TypeScript Terraform CDK

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

3 Jahre 2 Monate
2018-10 - 2021-11

Computer Science

Master of Science, RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, NRW, Germany
Master of Science
RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, NRW, Germany
  • Minor in Math
  • Thesis: ?on request?
5 Monate
2020-01 - 2020-05

Computer Science

No Degree, University Of Florida - Gainesvi le, Florida, USA
No Degree
University Of Florida - Gainesvi le, Florida, USA
3 Jahre 1 Monat
2015-10 - 2018-10

Computer Science

Bachelor of Science, University Of Ulm - Ulm, BW, Germany
Bachelor of Science
University Of Ulm - Ulm, BW, Germany
  • Minored in Physics
  • Thesis: "on request" 

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

AWS Data Engineer Cloud Infrastructure Full Stack Software Engineering Terraform Infrastructure as Code Cloud Security C# Python agiles Projektmanagement DevOps Engineer Azure Devops Apache Flink Kafka Data Lake

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Infrastructure as Code:

  • AWS CDK
  • Terraform
  • AWS Cloudformation 


Technologies:

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Github Actions
  • Git
  • Apache Kafka
  • MQTT 


Side Projects

  • Digital Board Game in Go (Backend) + TypeScript
  • Github
    • NBA Game Simulator from PlayByPlay Data
    • Kaggle - March Madness Basketbal Predictions
  • Kaggle
  • Academic Papers 2023: Structural Node Embeddings with Homomorphism Counts  

Programmiersprachen

Python
C#/.NET
GoLang
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
SQL
DynamoDB
React
Spark
Flink

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