Curriculum Vitae / CV
Principal Software Engineer @ Medialesson
I am an open-minded and curious Senior Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in professional software development. I’m experienced in a lot of frontend, backend, and cloud technologies. Currently I’m focusing heavily on cloud technologies.
I am an empathetic developer who enjoys writing code in teams.
I am an architect who solves customer’s technical challenges. I am an advocate of cloud technologies. But most of all, I try to be a pragmatic person who likes to learn something new every day.
Personal Information
Name | Oliver Scheer |
oliverscheer@outlook.com | |
Phone | +49 175 5844505 |
Address | Selma-Lagerloef-Str. 4, 85375 Neufahrn bei Freising, Germany |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scheeroliver/ | |
GitHub | https://github.com/oliverscheer |
Nationality | German |
Languages | German (native), English (full working proficiency) |
Professional Experiences
Principal Software Engineer
Medialesson
Since 2023/11
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
2017/07 - 2023/10
Worked successfully on multiple customer projects for 3-12 months using modern cloud and development technologies like Azure, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, SQL and Cosmos DB, .net, Python, node.js, Angular, React, TypeScript/JavaScript and many more.
Coached with empathy distributed engineers of customers and Microsoft in engineering fundamentals, like DevOps, CI/CD, code reviews, pair coding, testing, agile development (SCRUM, SAFe), retrospectives, and more.
Designed and implemented scaling solutions based on a wide variety of technologies and architectures from edge to cloud.
Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Germany
2006/01-2017/06
Trainer for a wide variety of developer technologies and tools: .net Framework, Mobile, Cloud, Web technologies, Azure, IoT, Desktop
Speaker/Track owner for national and international conferences and PR events
Management of developer communities
Organizer of multiple events (online/offline/distributed) up to 2000 people.
Software Developer
RTL Television, Germany
2002/10-2005/12
Architect and developer of greenfield data warehouse for finance and controlling, including management of immense amounts of data and utilization of BusinessObjects reporting.
Lead greenfield project (European-wide booking system) from inception with team of six and ensured sustainability of system for long term use.
Defined and implemented Lifecycle Management System for planning, design, implementing, testing, building and deployment of European-wide advertising booking system.
Defined engineering requirements and resource planning, implementation of quality/assurance mechanism.
Software Engineer & Consultant
Wettschereck and Partner
01/2000 - 09/2002
Developing of Custom Software Solutions based on Microsoft Frontend and Backend Technologies, like ASP, VBScript, IIS, and more.
Network Administration
Education
University of Essen (University of Essen, Germany)
Diploma of Business Informatics (D2), 1995-2000
Thesis: Comparison of Internet-Solution Architectures.
Focus: Business and Requirements Engineering, Information technology, Controlling
Teacher at ReDI School
From 09/2022 - 12/2022 I was a teacher at the ReDI School of Digital Integration. Teaching students the basics of Python development.
Certifications
- 2023-04 GitHub Administration
- 2023-04 GitHub Advanced Security
- 2023-04 GitHub Actions
- 2022-04 Certified SCRUM Product Owner
- 2021-04 Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
- 2021-03 Advanced Certified Scrum Master Training Attendance
- 2021-02 Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
- 2021-02 Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- 2019-05 Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- 2016 INSEAD: Challenging Customers through Business Model Innovation
- 2015-06 Microsoft Specialist: Azure Solutions
- 2013-07 Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Windows Store Apps Using C#
- 2013-07 Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C#
- 2005 Microsoft Certified Solutions Engineer
- 2004 Sybase IQ Data Warehouse for Developer
- 1999 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer for Windows NT 4.0
Technical Experiences and Skills
Main technologies used in last twelve Months.
Azure Cloud Services
DevOps on Azure DevOps and GitHub
GitHub
Infrastructure as Code Terraform and Biceps
ASP.NET Core
.net core
C#
React, Angular
node.js
Bash on Ubuntu
Docker
AKS / K8S
Python
Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code
Experienced in Engineering Fundamentals like:
Agile Methodologies: Scrum and SaFE
Testing
Code Reviews
CI/CD - Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
Observability
Source Code Control
I have more solid experiences with many tools and technologies collected over the last 25 years. I’m open to learn new technologies as required based on the project.
More Experiences
Coaching on the job of team members and customer developers during code-with projects.
Technology trainings for teams, colleagues, and partners
Experienced Speaker on internal, external, national, and international events (100+)
Experienced Community Evangelist