Mercededes-Benz.io

Backend Engineering Community of Practice Lead (Jan 2023 - )

Responsible for:

• Enabling backend engineers (over 60) in all locations (Lisbon, Stuttgart, Berlin & Braga);
• Fostering cross-product exchange, sharing DevOps success & failure stories, and hence growing a DevOps culture of continual experimentation and learning;
• Provide onboarding & integration of new joiners regarding tools, methods & practices;
• Being the interface to Engineering Managers regarding backend community topics;
• Supporting HR in defining and maintaining the Career Progression Framework for the backend community;

Software Engineer (Oct 2018 - )

Design, develop, test and maintain the backend infrastructure and microservices of a software system, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.

Technologies:

• Java 8, 11 & 17;
• Kotlin;
• Spring (Boot, Cloud);
• Swagger;
• JUnit; AssertJ; AssertK; Mockito; Mockk,
• PostgreSQL; Flyway; Liquibase;
• Git; Maven;
• Jenkins; Docker; VMware Tanzu Application Service (aka Pivotal Cloud Foundry);
• Black Duck; SonarQube; Datadog;
• Confluence, Jira;
• IntelliJ;
• Postman, RapidAPI (PAW)

Other roles:

• Recruiting Support: Review code challenges; conduct interviews; provide feedback to the recruiting team;
• Slack Admin: Invite users; manage channels, integrations, and other requests; enforce Slacktiquette; contact person for Slack-related questions;
• GPTW Ambassador: Analyse results from the Great Place to Work survey; derive actions from the survey; make Mercedes-Benz.io a Great Place to Work - ranked in GPTW 2021;
• Event Ambassador: Represent the Backend circle in events; create presentations and workshops in college fairs (SINFO 27 & 28, Jortec 2020, SET 2021); host internal knowledge sharing sessions;
• Tech Practice Onboarding Coordinator: Defining, owning and guiding the process of the Tech Practice (backend, frontend, quality assurance, mobile dev, infrastructure) into the team and vice versa;

Enablement Lead Link for Backend Engineering (Jun 2021 - Dec 2022)

Responsible for:

• Enabling backend engineers (over 45) on all locations (Lisbon, Stuttgart, Berlin & Braga);
• Defining the strategy and vision for our backend;
• Pushing forward technology and skillset to provide the best cloud-native microservices solutions;
• Supporting the development of backend engineers;
• Providing /maintaining content for onboarding;
• Fostering cross-product exchange, sharing DevOps success stories, and hence growing a DevOps culture of continual experimentation and learning;
• Collaborating with Recruiting and Staffing Lead Link on staffing process towards onboarding.

Free and Open Source Coordinator (Jul 2020 - Dec 2021)

Being a FOSS liaison between Mercedes-Benz.io and Mercedes-Benz Group by:

• Coordinating FOSS rules and processes;
• Taking part in FOSS coordinator meetings/meet-ups;
• Providing FOSS related information;
• Monitoring that FOSS rules and processes are understood and followed;
• Set up goals and objectives regarding FOSS awareness at Mercedes-Benz.io
• Living by and promoting Mercedes-Benz Group FOSS manifesto principles.

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Information Technology Trainer (Feb 2017 - Jun 2018)

Trainer in various courses in the area of Information Technology including:

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access);
• Web Development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL);
• Programming (C/C++, Java, Android);
• Graphic design (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator);
• Among others.

Other responsibilities include the creation and update of contents of the different courses as well as the development and maintenance of some internal projects.