Hi! I’m Carl, a full-stack engineer with over five years of experience.
I advocate for user-centricity and love designing delightful digital experiences. Driven by a motivation to build seamless interactions and great user experiences, I know how to combine a set of diverse technologies to build high-quality products that meet user needs.
Covering your Backend, Frontend, the Cloud, and Design Thinking.
With a strong foundation in IT systems engineering (B.Sc. and M.Sc., Hasso Plattner Institute), requirements engineering, and user-centric design, I have a broad understanding of all the different components that make up a successful tech product.
Design Thinking
Frontend engineering
- React
- UI toolkits
- Custom CSS
- Graph visualization
- CORS, cookies, custom middleware
AWS Cloud engineering
Certified Cloud Practitioner- Lambda
- EC2
- VPC
- CloudFront
- Route53
- CodeBuild
- Terraform
Mobile apps
- iOS development with Swift
- Flutter
Backend engineering
- Python
- PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Node.js
- Go
DevOps
- CI (Fastlane, Jenkins, Gitlab, Travis)
- Microservices using Docker
IoT
- BLE communication in iOS
- Foreground and background activity
Professional experience
Throughout my career, I’ve worked as a consultant, developer, team lead, and design thinker.
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Frontend
Backend & Cloud
Mobile
Value Engineer at Spread AI
2024
Berlin, Germany
Fullstack / Data Engineer working on information integration between different departments involved in the automotive design process.
PythonJavaScriptGraphQL
2024
Full-stack developer at Premium automotive company, via Accenture
2021 – 2023
Berlin, Germany
Implemented a monitoring dashboard for an enterprise data catalog, highlighting how datasets are used and accounting for cloud costs. To help users to model and understand how different datasets and entities relate to each other, I built a browser-based editor for knowledge graphs using AntV.
ReactAntVAWS LambdaAWS NeptuneTerraformFigma
2021 – 2023
Full-stack developer at luca (culture4Life GmbH)
2021
Berlin, Germany
I worked on the luca COVID tracing app, implementing cryptography features in the end user, health department, and location manager web apps. I also developed a standalone Electron app to issue new encryption keys.
To improve the developer experience, I reduced Docker startup times by 80% on dependency changes.
To improve the developer experience, I reduced Docker startup times by 80% on dependency changes.
ReactAnt DesignDockerExpressPostgreSQL
2021
Engineering Fellow at Federal Foreign Office, via Tech4Germany
2019
Berlin, Germany
Worked on a digital transformation project with Germany’s Federal Foreign Office to improve the re-posting process of diplomats. Included user research and development of a handover-ready prototype for the ministry’s intranet (SharePoint React app).
ReactSharePointFigma
2019
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Backend & Cloud
Mobile
Education
I have a Master of Science in IT Systems Engineering (similar to software engineering), combined with a two-semester certification in Design Thinking and international study experience.
M. Sc. in IT Systems Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute
2018 – 2021
Potsdam, Germany
Sponsored by SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner, HPI is a faculty of the University of Potsdam whose programs consistently rank #1 for Computer Science in Germany (CHI ranking).
In my Master's, I focused on
- Information Systems
- Interactive Technologies
- Software Engineering
Notable projects
- For my Master’s Thesis, I developed a software system to enable traceability of requirements in Human-Centered Design (HCD) processes (React, Ant Design).
- Collaborated on research paper Are You There, Moriarty? Feasibility Study of Internet-based Location for Location-based Access Control Systems.
- Master's project: Worked on Assembler³: 3D Reconstruction of Laser-Cut Models, an extension to the browser-based Kyub editor.
- Built a POC for locomotive automation using an industrial controller interfacing with a 36-pin Multiple-unit train control, Raspberry Pi, GPS module, async Python code, web sockets.
- Integrated Apple Health GPS logs with OpenStreetMap data to infer viability of Berlin streets for cycling (Postgres with PostGIS extension).
2018 – 2021
Semester at Sea, Colorado State University
2019
North America, Asia, Africa, Europe
Semester at Sea is a unique study-abroad program visiting 11 countries. Courses taken: Global Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Intro to General Psychology, History of Jazz. Graduated with 4.0 GPA (German grade 1.0 equivalent).
2019
Design Thinking Basic & Advanced Track, HPI D-School
2016 – 2018
Potsdam, Germany
The HPI D-School teaches the Design Thinking method for solving wicked problems and coming up with innovative products. In five-person teams, we
- Redesigned the ample foyer of Berlin's Staatsbibliothek Potsdamer Straße (Basic Track).
- Elaborated a concept for a digital scholarship in collaboration with Germany's Federal Foreign Office (Advanced Track).
2016 – 2018
B. Sc. in IT Systems Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute
2014 – 2017
Potsdam, Germany
Covered areas
- Big Data Analytics
- Databases
- Software Architectures
- Theoretical CS
- Internet Security and Internet Technologies
- Operating Systems
Final project: Designing and implementing the fundamental architecture of the Schul-Cloud platform (now dBildungscloud).
2014 – 2017
Imprint
Carl Julius Gödecken
Wenckebachstr. 11
12099 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: hello@mastercarl.com
Inhaltlich Verantwortlicher gemäß § 18 Abs. 2 MStV: Carl Julius Gödecken
Steuernummer für Umsatzsteuer: 14/310/03732
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