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resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Alexander Barge",
    "label": "Entrepreneur, CTO & Full Stack Developer",
    "picture": "http://alexanderbarge.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Barge-Alexander.jpg",
    "email": "alexander.barge@gmail.com",
    "phone": "+49 176 48294884",
    "website": "https://alexanderbarge.com",
    "summary": "Technology Entrepreneur, CTO, Engineering Manager, Software Architect & Full Stack Web Developer. Building scalable and reliable software, teams, infrastructure and products that customers love. Fast.",
    "location": {
      "address": "Branitzer Platz 4",
      "postalCode": "14050",
      "city": "Berlin",
      "countryCode": "DE",
      "region": "Berlin"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "alexanderbarge",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderbarge/"
      },
      {
        "network": "StackOverflow",
        "username": "realalexbarge",
        "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/1398640/realalexbarge?tab=profile"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "realalexbarge",
        "url": "https://github.com/realAlexBarge"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "DeineStudienfinanzierung (FiRec UG)",
      "position": "CTO & Co-Founder",
      "website": "https://www.deinestudienfinanzierung.de",
      "startDate": "2017-07-01",
      "summary": "Seed Stage Startup providing an automated, digital assistant offering all relevant study financing options with direct online application in Germany. Appeared on 'German Shark Tank' and secured >1m € in funding.",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed rule based study financing online application assistant from scratch using the MERN-Stack",
        "Recruited and led engineering team of 5+ full stack engineers, designers and product manager with custom mixed Scrum / Kanban agile methodology successfully releasing features in 2 week sprints",
        "Led the development of core features including product eligibility calculation, proof upload and validation engine, pdf generation, admin / provider dashboards, order / payment system and many more",
        "Personally contributed over 5000 commits and 1.5 million lines of code",
        "Set up automated distributed cloud deployment on AWS with Lambda, EC2, Fargate and RDS using Infrastructure as Code Cloud Formation Templates",  
        "Introduced continuous integration and delivery with custom test and build pipelines enabling rolling releases and guaranteed core functionality in production thanks to automated end to end tests",
        "Migrated application from REST and MongoDB to GraphQL, Prisma and Postgres moving from MVP to stable and reliable software with better scalability and developer experience",
        "Prepared application for successfully handling TV appearances with >100k page views and millions of requests during broadcast by introducing additional caching, event driven architecture and auto scaling",
        "Created business intelligence suite based on Metabase, Google Analytics and Google BigQuery to provide KPI metrics, dashboards and self service insight discovery", 
        "Ensured >99.95% uptime, as well as average response times between 25 and 250 ms across all apps, services and database in the last 12 months, while having hundreds of releases",
        "Owned technical vendor and customer relationships, as well as integration projects" 
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Connected Innovations GmbH",
      "position": "Managing Director & Consultant",
      "website": "https://www.connected-innovations.de",
      "startDate": "2015-08-01",
      "endDate": "2017-12-31",
      "summary": "As a specialized digital strategy, innovation, and technology consultancy Connected Innovations bridges the gap between corporates and start-ups and delivers expertise in artificial intelligence & the internet of things. Combining experienced industry managers and startup founders we support established companies in the successful development of internal digital innovation labs, accelerator or company building programs in the fields of AI & IoT. In addition to enabling successful cooperation between start-ups and established companies, we help corporates to quickly validate and scale new digital business models."
    },
    {
      "company": "founderio GmbH",
      "position": "CTO & Co-Founder",
      "website": "https://www.founderio.com",
      "startDate": "2014-04-01",
      "endDate": "2017-01-01",
      "summary": "Co-founded and developed the leading data-driven matchmaking platform and social network for start-ups and corporates in Germany with over 20.000 users and more than 150.000 visitors a month. The cooperation platform connects entrepreneurs, startups and established companies to enable (open) innovation. Additionally offered individual innovation consulting to large corporates, for example scouting start-ups, as well as identifying and developing cooperation opportunities. Sold my shares in 2017."
    },
    {
      "company": "kaputt.de GmbH",
      "position": "Interim CTO & Developer",
      "website": "https://www.kaputt.de.de",
      "startDate": "2014-03-01",
      "endDate": "2014-10-01",
      "summary": "Interim CTO during the founding phase. Responsible for collecting requirements, selecting the technology stack, creating mock-ups and prototypes, as well as building the first scalable MVP."
    },
    {
      "company": "Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory TU-Berlin",
      "position": "Product Manager & Developer",
      "website": "https://www.dai-labor.de",
      "startDate": "2013-07-01",
      "endDate": "2015-07-01",
      "summary": "Initially developer for the Smart Kitchen Assistant research project and later project / product manager for the IOLITE smart home middle-ware university spin-off. Both projects are multi-agent systems based on the JIAC (Java-based Intelligent Agent Componentware) framework to provide distributed artificial intelligence."
    },
    {
      "company": "Technical University of Berlin",
      "position": "Teaching Assistant",
      "website": "https://www.tu-berlin.de",
      "startDate": "2012-04-01",
      "endDate": "2013-07-01",
      "summary": "Instructor for 'Introduction to Computer Science II' and 'Project Management for Business Information Systems'. Responsible for educational material creation, teaching and supervision of tutorial session, lectures and exams."
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "company": "University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics Berlin",
      "position": "Lecturer",
      "website": "https://www.htw-berlin.de/",
      "startDate": "2020-01-01",
      "summary": "Freelance lecturer for the course 'Development of Mobile Application'. Covering native and hybrid mobile web application development, including Progressive Web Apps, React Native, Flutter and other frameworks. "
    },
    {
      "company": "Udacity",
      "position": "Mentor for the Artificial Intelligence Engineer Nanodegree",
      "website": "https://www.udacity.com",
      "startDate": "2017-01-01",
      "summary": "Artificial intelligence is the future of computer science and technology. Its impact will be almost immeasurable. The field is wide open today, with so much to learn, and so many ways to contribute. The Udacity Artificial Intelligence Engineer Nanodegree program helps students to master skills and tools used by the most innovative AI teams across the globe by delving into specializations, and gaining experience solving real-world challenges. Mentors guide students on this learning journey."
    },
    {
      "organization": "Various",
      "position": "Speaker, Mentor & Coach",
      "startDate": "2015-01-01",
      "summary": "Speaker at start-up and digitalization conferences, as well as mentor and coach for young founders and start-ups."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
     {
      "institution": "Udacity",
      "area": "Artificial Intelligence",
      "studyType": "Nanodegree",
      "startDate": "2016-01-01",
      "endDate": "2017-01-01",
      "courses": [
        "Constraint Satisfaction Problems",
        "Search, Optimization, and Planning",
        "Adversarial Search",
        "Fundamentals of Probabilistic Graphical Models"
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "Technical University of Berlin",
      "area": "ICT Engineering & Management",
      "studyType": "M. Sc.",
      "startDate": "2013-04-01",
      "endDate": "2015-04-01"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Technical University of Berlin",
      "area": "ICT Engineering & Management",
      "studyType": "B. Sc.",
      "startDate": "2010-04-01",
      "endDate": "2013-04-01"
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "An Agile Method for Multiagent Software Engineering",
      "publisher": "Procedia Computer Science",
      "releaseDate": "2014-01-01",
      "website": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050914007133#!"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Web Architecture",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Client Server Model",
        "RESTful",
        "MVC",
        "Distributed Applications",
        "Event Driven Architecture",
        "Serverless",
        "Microservices",
        "Server Side Rendering",
        "SPAs",
        "..."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Front End Dev.",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "ReactJS",
        "React Native",
        "ES6+",
        "JavaScript",
        "GatsbyJS",
        "SCSS",
        "CSS",
        "HTML",
        "..."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Back End Dev.",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Node.js",
        "Express.js",
        "TypeScript",
        "GraphQL",
        "Prisma",
        "Postgres",
        "SQL",
        "MongoDB",
        "RabbitMQ",
        "Python",
        "..."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "QA & Security",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Jest",
        "Enzyme",
        "Cypress",
        "Sentry",
        "JWT",
        "Storybook",
        "..."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Dev Ops",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Netlify",
        "AWS",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "MongoDB",
        "Heroku",
        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes",
        "CloudFlare",
        "CircleCI",
        "TravisCI",
        "..."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Software & Tools",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Git",
        "GitHub",
        "npm",
        "yarn",
        "WebPack",
        "Prettier",
        "ESLint",
        "VSCode",
        "PowerPoint",
        "Excel",
        "..."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Methodologies",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Scrum",
        "Kanban",
		"SOLID",
		"DRY",
        "Test-driven development",
        "Domain-driven design",
        "..."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Interpersonal Skills",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Problem Solving",
        "Strategic Thinking",
		"Accountability",
        "Self-Management",
        "Leadership",
        "..."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "German",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Fluent"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Entrepreneurship"
    },
    {
      "name": "Technology"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sports"
    }
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