First time at a startup

Teamecho is a SaaS platform for collecting and analyzing employee feedback. I started as the first engineer and took over the development responsibilities from a contractor. In the following years, we built up our in-house software development and operations team.

Key responsibilities

• Development and operation of the Teamecho SaaS product
• Responsible technical architect for the backend
• Developing the product roadmap together with the CEOs and product management
• Lead the technical development of the product
• Developer productivity engineering

Key achievements

• Established software architecture to support the growing number of features
• Established development, deployment, monitoring, operations, and tech support workflows to support the company’s scaling of the business.
• Migrated the application to the cloud (Microsoft Azure)
• Integrated AI Technologies into the product (custom models and 3rd party services)
• Hired and developed the current engineering team

Tech stack

• Backend: Spring Boot, OpenApi, Kotlin, Java
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Redux, RTK, SCSS
• Data storage: JPA/Hibernate, Flyway, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Testing: JUnit, Mockito, JaCoCo, Jest, Cypress
• Build and Deployment: Gradle, npm, Docker, GitLab CI, Microsoft Azure (using Bicep templates)
• Development Environment: IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code, GitLab
• Monitoring: Azure Application Insights, Grafana
• Code quality tools: detekt, checkstyle, esLint, Sonar, ArchUnit