Hello, world. I'm

Timo Lutz

Senior Backend Developer

Architecting resilient distributed systems and scalable infrastructure. Turning coffee into reliable services since 2002.

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01. About

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. With almost a decade of experience engineering backend systems at scale, I specialize in distributed architectures, cloud-native infrastructure, and the art of making complex microservices appear effortlessly simple.

My toolkit spans from low-level systems programming C and C++ to high-level API design and platform engineering — always with a focus on observability, fault tolerance, and developer experience. I hold a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University Dresden and have been shipping production code ever since.

02. Skills

Languages

C# Java Kotlin SQL Bash

Infrastructure & Cloud

Docker Kubernetes Terraform Azure GCP Linux Nginx Ansible

Databases

SQL Redis MongoDB CosmosDb

Architecture & Patterns

Microservices REST gRPC Event-driven DDD CQRS TDD CI/CD IaC DevOps

03. Experience

2021 – Present

Lead Backend Engineer

HVB Systems GmbH

Leading a cross-functional team of 8 engineers through a monolith-to-microservices migration. Reduced p99 latency by 40% and improved deployment frequency from monthly releases to continuous delivery via a GitOps-based platform engineering initiative.

Go Kubernetes Kafka PostgreSQL Terraform
2017 – 2021

Senior Software Engineer

CloudStack Solutions

Designed and implemented a real-time data ingestion pipeline processing 50K events/sec with sub-100ms end-to-end latency. Championed observability practices by introducing distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry across 30+ services.

Python Docker Redis Elasticsearch gRPC
2013 – 2017

Backend Developer

ByteForge Labs

Developed REST APIs and backend services for a SaaS platform serving 100K+ users. Introduced automated testing and CI pipelines, bringing code coverage from 12% to 78% within two quarters.

Java Spring Boot MySQL RabbitMQ

04. Education

2017

Diplom-Informatiker (equiv. M.Sc. Computer Science)

Technische Universität Dresden

Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung

HVB Systems GmbH

05. Playground

Interactive terminal — type help to get started, game to launch the 3D maze.

timo@devbox: ~
timo@devbox:~$ 

06. Contact

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