Whitebox is a digital wealth manager/robo advisor founded in 2015
Joined to support the organization with strategic initiatives towards growth stage
Establishing a new product team
Venture Studio for the Aareal Group, Proptech Venture Development
Member of the management team
Created a highly effective team with the objective to build ventures to change how we live and work in the future
Founded and invested in 2 pre-seed ventures and worked with founders to reach
product-market fit in an ambitious timeline
Advisory role, technology and organizational development
Managing investments (capital increase, convertibles, secondaries)
Digitization services for SMEs (Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises)
Identity, authorization and communication through blockchain (ERC20, Ethereum, Tendermint)
Closed pre-seed funding in March 2018 at a EUR 3.5M valuation
Go-live after 90 days
Responsible for customer and product development, legal, finance
Defined strategy for a global data lake for the whole group
Established a new team for data engineering on scale
P2P Lending Platform
30 Engineers
Defining IT strategy for the whole Lendico Group
Creating highly effective teams and a strong engineering culture
Focus on fast iteration cycles and the scientific method
Fostering ownership and leadership within the IT department
Change management. Transition to pure SME (small and medium enterprises) lender
Introduced Kubernetes. Architecture of new core banking systems
Focus on creating a strong engineering culture
Introduced microservices. Organizational design
[Firmname on request] is a Payment Services Company and offers payment related consulting, software development, and support
[Firmname on request] operated, maintained, and developed a high-volume payment system for one of Germany?s biggest browser games company
[Firmname on request] developed and published FritzPay (a high-volume middleware stack for payment processing) under an open-source license
Studies in the following fields:
Mathematics
Philosophy
Psychology
Social Sciences
History
History of Maths and Sciences
Anthropology
Leadership
Entrepreneurial mindset. Lean, data-driven business development
Principled thinking around early- and growth-stage startups
Ability to enable a culture, which enables innovation, autonomy, and curiosity
Develop Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose as a foundation of engineering work
Engineering
20+ years experience as a software developer
Languages: Go, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL
AWS, GCP, Openstack
Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, ELK, InfluxDB, Grafana
Kafka, RabbitMQ, NSQ, NATS
Terraform, Ansible
Primary focus: Distributed Systems. High Demand Backend Systems
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, Elasticsearch
Agile Development, TDD, Scrum
Research Focus: Distributed Systems, Systems Development, Cryptography
GitHub Account: wongak
stackoverflow user ID: 3460555
Whitebox is a digital wealth manager/robo advisor founded in 2015
Joined to support the organization with strategic initiatives towards growth stage
Establishing a new product team
Venture Studio for the Aareal Group, Proptech Venture Development
Member of the management team
Created a highly effective team with the objective to build ventures to change how we live and work in the future
Founded and invested in 2 pre-seed ventures and worked with founders to reach
product-market fit in an ambitious timeline
Advisory role, technology and organizational development
Managing investments (capital increase, convertibles, secondaries)
Digitization services for SMEs (Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises)
Identity, authorization and communication through blockchain (ERC20, Ethereum, Tendermint)
Closed pre-seed funding in March 2018 at a EUR 3.5M valuation
Go-live after 90 days
Responsible for customer and product development, legal, finance
Defined strategy for a global data lake for the whole group
Established a new team for data engineering on scale
P2P Lending Platform
30 Engineers
Defining IT strategy for the whole Lendico Group
Creating highly effective teams and a strong engineering culture
Focus on fast iteration cycles and the scientific method
Fostering ownership and leadership within the IT department
Change management. Transition to pure SME (small and medium enterprises) lender
Introduced Kubernetes. Architecture of new core banking systems
Focus on creating a strong engineering culture
Introduced microservices. Organizational design
[Firmname on request] is a Payment Services Company and offers payment related consulting, software development, and support
[Firmname on request] operated, maintained, and developed a high-volume payment system for one of Germany?s biggest browser games company
[Firmname on request] developed and published FritzPay (a high-volume middleware stack for payment processing) under an open-source license
Studies in the following fields:
Mathematics
Philosophy
Psychology
Social Sciences
History
History of Maths and Sciences
Anthropology
Leadership
Entrepreneurial mindset. Lean, data-driven business development
Principled thinking around early- and growth-stage startups
Ability to enable a culture, which enables innovation, autonomy, and curiosity
Develop Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose as a foundation of engineering work
Engineering
20+ years experience as a software developer
Languages: Go, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Java, SQL
AWS, GCP, Openstack
Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, ELK, InfluxDB, Grafana
Kafka, RabbitMQ, NSQ, NATS
Terraform, Ansible
Primary focus: Distributed Systems. High Demand Backend Systems
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, Elasticsearch
Agile Development, TDD, Scrum
Research Focus: Distributed Systems, Systems Development, Cryptography
GitHub Account: wongak
stackoverflow user ID: 3460555