About Sebastian Felix Zappe
Profession
I'm CTO at Sozialhelden e.V. in Berlin / Germany, and freelancer (You can hire me.)
Experience: More than 20 years commercial software development, programming since the age of 8.
Languages: German (native), English (business-fluent), Icelandic (en bara smá).
Tech experience (in buzzwords)
- Agile team and project management (with in-house and remote teams)
- Tech evangelism
- Software QA - BDD, TDD, cloud test platforms, building full CI/CD systems from scratch, good documentation & unit-tested high-quality code
- Open Source maintenance
- Various SQL and NoSQL databases
- Performance optimization & profiling
- GIS, location-based services
- Real-world and software accessibility (WAI)
- Contributing to tech standards (W3C LDA, A11yJSON, GTFS)
- Data mining, web scraping
- Complex data visualizations
- Making tangible things: rapid prototypes with 3D printing (SLA/FDM), computer-aided machining (CNC/CAM), Autodesk Fusion 360, soldering, signal analysis
- Animated 3D graphics (Cinema 4D, OpenGL)
- IoT, electrical engineering, sensors & digital signal processing, RFID, Bluetooth, Particle Cloud
- Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Cinema 4D, Autodesk Fusion 360
- Online banking
- Online / Mobile advertising
- Social network analysis
- MIDI, OSC, DMX, VR, live events, real-time scene control
Programming Environments + Technologies
In the recent past, I have actively worked with:
- Kubernetes / DevOps. Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Argo Workflows, Argo CD, nginx
- JavaScript / ECMAScript / TypeScript on client and server, ES6+, Node, Meteor, React, Cordova, Backbone, d3, Three.js, Mapbox
- Objective-C++ / Swift on iOS / macOS, Xcode, Cocoa (Touch), complex UIKit apps, CoreAnimation. Earlier: CoreData, Bonjour, Distributed Objects
- Java / Kotlin on Android
- C / C++, Visual Studio Code, Xcode, Eclipse, Visual C++, KDevelop, MacOS X / Cocoa, boost, OpenGL, TCP/IP
I'm not actively using these things anymore, but have used:
- Mathematica
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RubyMotion / Gem development
- Java, Eclipse RCP, SWT
- processing
- PHP