Hello, I’m Tim, Backend Developer & DevOps Enthusiast.
Based in Germany.
20+
Years
of Experience
100+
Successful
Projects
1M+
Lines
of Code
About Me.
My name is Tim Rutte and I live in Geilenkirchen, Germany with my family and our dog, Buddy. With over 20 years of professional software development experience, I specialize in cloud-native applications using Golang and PHP. I have extensive experience with AWS and DevOps, and I am highly skilled in Scrum and Kanban methodologies. I am always striving to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, and I'm passionate about quality, automation, and developer productivity.
Resume
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Team Internet AGStaff Software Engineer
Kape Technologies PLC (ExpressVPN)IT-Consultant aka "Gun to Hire"
Self-employed FreelancerManaging Partner
Corodo GmbHSenior Web Developer
Spark 5 GmbHWeb Developer
TuneUp Software GmbHSoftware Developer
HUP AGManaging Partner
Rutte/Körfer GbR (side business)Education
IT Specialist for Application Development
School for Business and Administration, AachenBusiness Informatics
University of CologneA-levels (German Abitur)
Carolus Magnus Gymnasium, Übach-PalenbergSkills
PHP
Golang
AWS
Terraform
Docker
Gitlab CI
GitHub Act.
Datadog
Grafana
MySQL
MS SQL
PostgreSQL
Just in case you want to know some details...
PHP, Go (Golang), Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML 5, CSS, Bash, Batch, Java, Perl, TypoScript, VB, VBA, Uniface, XBase++
MySQL, MariaDB, AuroraDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Firebird, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache
Git, GitLab, Github, Bitbucket, SVN, Jira, Confluence, Compass, OpsGenie, Postman, OpenAPI (Swagger), Scrum, Kanban, OKR, Slack, Lucidchart, Okta, Google Workspace, Office 365
Zend Framework, Laminas, Laravel, Phalcon, Apigility, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Doctrine, Eloquent, Smarty, Twig, PHPUnit, Codeception, Bootstrap, Gin, Gorm, React, Vue, Angular, ExtJS, Sass, Less, Composer
Grafana, CloudWatch, Kibana, Logstash, Prometheus, Sentry, Datadog
CI/CD, Cloud-native approaches, GitHub Actions, Gitlab, Gitlab CI, Linting, SonarCloud, Secret Management, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), AWS (ECS, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Athena, Glue, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, ECR, API Gateway, IAM, ...), nginx, Apache, Linux, Microsoft IIS, Zend Server, Docker, Docker compose, Vagrant, Kubernetes
Software Design, Architectural Planning, Microservices, Clean Code, TDD, Pair Programming, Design Patterns, OOP, MVC, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Multi Tenancy, SaaS, SOA
OWASP Top 10, Wireshark, Pentesting, WAF, 1Password, Cloudflare
Agile mindset, team-minded, innovation thinking & highly motivated
Certifications
2008
Get In Touch
Nothing is as simple as a first contact!
If you would like to work with me or just want to get in touch, I’d love to hear from you!