polylith: A Portfolio of Professional Projects

This portfolio represents the technical journey of polylith - a collection of professional projects that showcase the evolution from student developer to founder and professional engineer and architect. Each project demonstrates different aspects of software engineering, from backend systems and cloud infrastructure to full-stack development and DevOps transformations.

Funding and Entrepreneurship

EXIST Gründerstipendium: The Foundation of EntwicklerHeld
Securing €125,000 in startup funding as co-founder through the EXIST program, providing crucial financial runway and structured mentorship for the transition from student to entrepreneur while learning the critical importance of early market validation.

Infrastructure and Backend Engineering

Automated Mail System Provisioning at T-Systems MMS
Building a REST API with Django REST Framework to automate mail system provisioning through Ansible, demonstrating the power of API-driven infrastructure automation and elegant separation of concerns.

Distributed Groundwater Computing Infrastructure at TU Dresden
Designing scalable cloud infrastructure for distributed groundwater calculations using RabbitMQ, implementing proof-of-concept systems with task-specific node optimization and demonstrating the viability of message queue architectures for scientific computing workloads.

Dynamic Configuration Reloading in Kubernetes at Kiwigrid
Consulting project analyzing and implementing proof-of-concepts for dynamic configuration reloading of Spring Boot applications in Kubernetes, exploring the complexity of achieving true hot-reloading in containerized environments.

Full-Stack Development and Visualization

Industrial Sensor Data Visualization at Elco
Frontend development of a Grafana-like visualization system for industrial sensor data, building an Angular component library with configurable widgets and dashboards that balanced flexibility with performance for different user types.

Discovering Django through Seminar Management
Full-stack development extending a seminar management platform for Der Paritätische, discovering Django's powerful ORM and testing framework while beginning collaboration with future EntwicklerHeld co-founders.