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Phillip Kessels

Senior Software Developer

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    • Berlin, Germany info@phikes.de
    +49 1525 72 77 942 phikes.de

    Curriculum Vitae

    Work Experience

    • Date 2023 - 2024
      Company todohero
      Responsibilities development, marketing and operations
      Position Founder
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • PostgreSQL
      • Amazon Web Services
      • Terraform
      • TypeScript
      • React
      • Next.js
      • GraphQL
      • Git
    • Date 2022 - 2023
      Company nerds.family
      Responsibilities building out features and leading a small team of developers
      Position CTO
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails, Hotwire, Turbo
      • PostgreSQL
      • Terraform
      • TypeScript
      • React
      • Git
    • Date 2020 - 2022
      Company Almanac
      Responsibilities engineer on the editor team, culture team lead
      Position Senior Full Stack Engineer
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • PostgreSQL
      • Amazon Web Services
      • Terraform
      • TypeScript
      • React, React Query
      • Sinatra
      • Git
    • Date 2019 - 2021
      Company promeldung
      Responsibilities damage reports for real estate by app
      Position Founder
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • PostgreSQL
      • Amazon Web Services
      • GraphQL
      • Terraform
      • TypeScript
      • AngularJS
      • Gitlab
      • Git
    • Date 2018 - 2020
      Company spacepilots GmbH
      Position CTO
      Responsibilities frontend/backend lead development of several client projects and in-house products, management
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • PostgreSQL
      • Amazon Web Services
      • GraphQL
      • Terraform
      • JavaScript
      • TypeScript
      • React
      • AngularJS
      • Gitlab
      • Markdown
      • Git
    • Date 2017 - 2018
      Company fejo.dk GmbH, Düsseldorf
      Position Software Developer
      Responsibilities frontend/backend development of a search engine for vacation homes in Denmark, conduction of daily meeting
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • Sinatra
      • MySQL
      • PostgreSQL
      • Amazon Web Services
      • Vagrant
      • Packer
      • Terraform
      • Ansible
      • JavaScript
      • Trello
      • GitHub
      • Markdown
      • Git
      Date 2016 - 2017
      Company Digital Mobility Solutions GmbH (formerly tamyca GmbH), Aachen
      Position Software Developer
      Responsibilities frontend/backend development of a car sharing platform, knowledge management (corporate wiki)
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • Sinatra
      • PostgreSQL
      • Amazon Web Services
      • Vagrant
      • JavaScript
      • CoffeeScript
      • Ember.js
      • Confluence
      • Gitlab
      • Markdown
      • Git
    • Date 2017 - 2018
      Company cflights.eu, Mönchengladbach
      Position Founder
      Responsibilities development of a web and mobile flight search engine for young travellers in Europe with partnerships of Ryanair, Lufthansa, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Rentalcars.com
      Technologies
      • Ruby
      • Rails
      • PostgreSQL
      • Git
      • GitHub
      • TypeScript
      • AngularJS
      • Bootstrap
      • Date 2012 - 2015
        Company Plagge.IT - Software Development, Aachen
        Position Student Assistant
        Responsibilities autonomous maintenance and development of multiple projects in the agriculture and paper industry as well as ' Mi Camino' (online shop for individual souvenirs products)
        Technologies
        • Ruby
        • Rails
        • SQLite
        • SVN
        • Vagrant
        • JavaScript
        • CoffeeScript
        • AngularJS
        • Confluence
        • Redmine
        • Markdown
        • Git
      • Date 2012 - 2015
        Company Phillip Kessels Softwareentwicklung, Aachen
        Position Founder
        Responsibilities project lead and development in a successful large-scale agricultural project (animal feeding machine)
        Technologies
        • Ruby
        • Rails
        • PostgreSQL
        • Git
        • Bitbucket
        • JavaScript
        • C
        • Discrete Electronics
        • Reverse Engineering (Electronics)
        • Embedded Systems
      • Date 2015 - 2016
        Company pmax.cl, Chile (South America)
        Position Founder, CTO
        Responsibilities technical lead of a web and mobile application in the field of learning technologies
        Technologies
        • Business Engineering
        • Ruby
        • Rails
        • PostgreSQL
        • Git
        • GitHub
        • JavaScript
        • CoffeeScript
        • Maxima
        • Numerical Computing

        Education

        • Date 2016
          Qualification Awarded Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
          Institution RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
          Focus Subjects
          • Designing Interactive Systems
          • Model Checking
          • Software Engineering
        • Date 2011
          Qualification Awarded general qualification for university entrance (Allgemeine Hochschulreife)
          Institution Stiftisches Humanistisches Gymnasium, Mönchengladbach, Germany
          Focus Subjects
          • Computer Science
          • Mathematics
          • German
          • Geography
        • Date 2008
          Qualification Awarded intermediate school-leaving certificate (Fachoberschulreife)
          Institution St. Wolfhelm Gymnasium, Schwalmtal, Germany

        Other

        • organizer of coding.portugal
        • scout group leader for 5 years
        • talks at local entrepreneurship groups
        • frequent speaker at Cocoaheads AC
        • scrum master at Digital Mobility Solutions GmbH

        Hobbies

        • Cycling
        • Climbing
        • Guitar
        • Music
        • DIY
        • Cooking
        • Programming
        • Travelling
        • Founding

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