Senior Software Engineer at Zalando, Berlin. I build backend systems, mostly in Java, and these days the part that helps parcels find their humans. On the side I contribute to open source, write about Java, and build small AI tools for developers.
- HTTP
QUERYmethod (RFC 10008) support - merged in OpenFeign, Spring Cloud OpenFeign and Spring Cloud Commons, urllib3 in review. Examples in rfc-10008-http-query-method. - loremfile.dev - free CC0 sample files for every file type, with stable URLs and a SHA-256 for each file. Lorem Picsum, but for files. Listed in public-apis. (repo)
- java-springboot-code-review - a Claude skill that reviews Java and Spring Boot code for the stuff linters miss:
@Transactionaltraps, N+1 queries, IDOR, race conditions. - ai-product-team - 11 Claude Code sub-agents that work like a small product team: PM, engineering, code review, QA, security, DevOps.
gRPC (4 API types, OAuth2, field masks) · Spring Authorization Server · GraphQL with Spring · HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 benchmark · multi-region GKE with Terraform · KEDA + SQS autoscaling · Quarkus and Spring Native · testing with TDD, BDD/Cucumber, MockMvc, WireMock and Testcontainers
21 articles on Medium (gRPC, OAuth2, OpenTelemetry, HTTP/2, Quarkus, TDD/BDD, AI & LLMs for software engineers), Java articles for Baeldung, and the odd post on dev.to (latest: The WAV header is not 44 bytes). Latest three:
Feel free to reach out if you just want to connect or need any help.



