Patrick Stegmann

Frankfurt am Main based developer, proficient in Java, Python and JavaScript/CoffeeScript

 0176 / 104 530 15 –  wonderb0lt –  info@patrick-stegmann.de

Hello there. I'm that bearded young man in the picture above. I currently live in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and am currently employed as a software developer at CoSee GmbH. My work there is mainly focused on writing JEE applications, though Python has been a steady companion.

Mindset

I reckon my greatest skill is my love for clean, good code. Whatever languages and frameworks I might encounter in my personal and professional future, this skill will always accompany me. Readability induces maintainability induces good code induces less headache. Simple as that.

To give you an idea of how I operate, I'll provide you with a set of things I find worth mentioning about me

Meta

• BDD
• I love git
• I can do nice things with the shell!
• I'd rather use a good library than write but one unnecessary line of code

Java

• I have worked with the whole stack, from Java ME over Android to Java SE and JEE 6
• Maven, Guava, Hamcrest, and Mockito are in my standard toolchain
• I don't overengineer. You won't see an AbstractListItemViewHolderListenerFactory from me. Promise.
• Effective Java is my bible, and Joshua Bloch a personal inspiration when it comes to Java

Python

• Pythonicity is not just a funny word to me
• I've worked with Flask/Jinja2 for web pages.
• I'll write features instead of unit tests.
• Python is a multi-purpose language, not just "something to write little scripts with"

Potential

Anyone who has stopped getting better has stopped being good. Attributed to Robert Bosch

I am aware of the fact that I have yet seen only so little of my profession. And there a few things I want to do, but haven't got around to due to temporal or personal constraints, and I would list them here ‐ They are as important to my professional identity as the things I CAN do.

• I've never tried Rails and I always look in envy over to their developers. They seem to be very productive.
• I have yet to contribute to the open-source community
• Even though I love Python dearly, I don't feel my code still isn't as good as it could be.
• My project managing skills have not yet been tested outside university

Projects

As mentioned earlier, I haven't yet got around to really participate in open-source development due to my investment in my current employment. I do have a few coding projects I'm working on, whenever I have the spare time (there's more to life than code, after all).

• The raxacoricofallapatorius Bot was a little test project to get my coding on with node.js. It retweets stuff that I say under @Wunderbolzen
• Liquid-Tally - a simple REST web service, with HTML frontend for managing who drinks what at CoSee GmbH
• This very homepage, completely handcrafted. Hey, at least I tried HTML5!
• ...and that's it. More to come whenever I have a stroke of genius. Also, I'm not good with project names.

Work

• 2011 - present

  CoSee GmbH

  Project Lead Developer

  During my ongoing time at CoSee GmbH I was involved in a variety of projects, which includes a web-crawling JEE application, an Android app, the delivery platform and web services behind that app. For quick tests and administrative tasks, I have also developed a wide array of python scripts. I am the lead developer of the delivery platform and had responsibility for it from it's inception.

• 2011

  COFINPRO AG

  Intern (Bachelor Thesis)

  I did my mandatory internship and authored my bachelor thesis at COFINPRO. I evaluated various NoSQL concepts for saving financial instrument data, and showed a possible implementation in Apache HBase (a column store database). The grade on the thesis was 1.3, the second best grade achievable

• 2008 - 2009

  opus5 interaktive medien GmbH

  Web Developer (student)

  At my first software development job, I was invloved in the development of a sports-related social network, based on the LAMP stack.

Education

• 2011 - present

  Master's Degree

  Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

  I am working on my master's degree in part-time.

• 2008 - 2011

  Bachelor's Degree

  Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

  Finished my bachelor's degree with a final grade of 2.0. Though I pursued many interests in the field, I had a focus on software engineering.

Contact

If you want to contact me, feel free to do so on the following channels:

• wonderb0lt
• info@patrick-stegmann.de (jobs@patrick-stegmann.de for job offerings)
• Patrick Stegmann @ XING
•  0176 / 104 530 15
•  wonderb0lt