Sven Sterbling
My résumé thus far
TL;DR;
Senior developer with 6+ years of experience in developing and operating cloud native services. Strong emphasis on reslient and performant/scalable applications which are maintainable. Actively involved in decsision making and distributing knowledge.
Career History
SAP Senior Developer - SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 10/2021 - to date Achievements | Introduction of Redis as a distributed cache including monitoring instrumentation and alerting for operations for a multi-tenant cloud-based service. Participating in special resiliency tasks including the analysis and tuning of performance issues based on profiling and static code analysis. Advocating and sharing best-practises for reliable, scalable and robust cloud services. Tech Stack | Cloud Foundry, Containerization, Javascript/Typescript, Python, Dynatrace, Kibana, Jenkins, Redis, HANA Cloud
IBM Public Cloud Senior Development Manager - IBM Cloud Databases 03/2020 - 10/2021 Achievements | Restructure of database engineering teams into two high functioning squads. Staffing and onboarding of two new regions. Successful release of two new database as a service offerings (MongoDB Enterprise, MySQL). Handling of critical customer cases and leading the technical investigation. Tech Stack | Kubernetes, Containerization, Python, Golang, Prometheus, Jenkins, (various) Databases
IBM Public Cloud Senior Database Engineer - IBM Cloud Databases 06/2018 - 03/2020 Achievements | Lead engineer for the successful release of Redis as a Service on IBM Cloud. Improving switchover & failover timeouts for Redis from 30s down to 2s. Maintaining TLS-enabled CLI tooling for Redis called redli. Worked on features for MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Etcd. Created monitoring instrumentation, runbooks & dashboards for operations. Tech Stack | Kubernetes, Containerization, Python, Golang, Prometheus, Jenkins, (various) Databases
Watson Customer Engagement Product Advocate - Watson Content Hub 09/2016 - 06/2018 Achievements | Creating and distributing Proof-of-Concepts to engage with customers in workshops at conferences and skill-sharing in our service team. Design and implementation of content-driven chatbots. Tech Stack | Containerization, Nodejs, Java, MongoDB
IBM Middleware Lab Services IT Specialist - Websphere Portal 11/2014 - 09/2016 Achievements | Development and architecture for a customer facing web platform for connected cars. Design and development of a synchronization tool between an on premise digital asset solution to a cloud-based content management system. Tech Stack | Websphere Portal, Java/Spring, Portlets, Python
Internships
IBM Kenexa Talent Suite Master Thesis 04/2014 - 10/2014
IBM University Relations Student Agent 10/2012 - 03/2014
IBM Deutschland IBM Extreme Blue 07/2012 - 09/2012
Information Systems Department 1 Hohenheim Web Development Student Assistant 11/2010 - 03/2014
Education
University of Hohenheim Master of Science - Information Systems 10/2012 - 10/2014 Achievements | Grade 1,3
University of Stuttgart Bachelor of Science - Information Systems 10/2009 - 07/2012 Achievements | Grade 1,4
University of Tilburg Study Abroad - Bachelor Thesis 04/2012 - 07/2012 Achievements | The Economic Relevance of an e-Mediation Component in the Context of Electronic Negotiation Systems (Grade 1,0)
Patents
License management system US Patent: US 20140165053 A1
Remotely awakening an electronic device US Patent: US 9494988 B2
Approving group purchase requests US Patent: US 20180101891 A1
Automatically propagating tagging of content items in a content management system environment US Patent: US 11074275 B2
Single page application continuous integration, build, and deployment US Patent: US 20200264848 A1
Monitoring health status of a large cloud computing system US Patent: US 20220253340 A1
Multi-level cache-mesh-system for multi-tenant serverless environments US Patent: US 11316947 B2