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Rico Metzger

Rico Metzger

Principal Software Engineer & Consultant

I'm a senior software engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and delivering robust backend systems, resilient data pipelines, and pragmatic solutions for complex architectures. Currently working in Romania until the end of the year. My core stack includes Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, and modern frontend frameworks like React and Angular.

Programming Languages

Java ★★★★★
Kotlin ★★★★★
Scala ★★★★★
JavaScript ★★★★☆
TypeScript ★★★★☆
Python ★★★☆☆

Frameworks

Spring ★★★★★
Apache Camel ★★★★★
Angular ★★★★☆
React ★★★☆☆
Vue ★★★☆☆

Databases & Cloud

PostgreSQL ★★★★★
Apache Kafka ★★★★★
AWS ★★★★☆
Docker ★★★★☆
Kubernetes ★★★★☆

Languages

German (native) ★★★★★
English (fluent) ★★★★☆
French (basic) ★★☆☆☆

Certificates

2024 VMware Spring Certified Professional 2024 [v2]
2024 Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka
2016 Coursera Scala Functional Programming
2015 MongoDB Certified Developer Associate

Recent Project Experience

Bison - Bison Commerce

01/2024 - 12/2025

Working on a project to develop an ecommerce platform.

Java • Spring • Angular • TypeScript • Commercetools • Contentful • Scrum

CSS - Shark2 / AWL 2.0

03/2023 - 12/2023

Working on a migration project from old JavaEE technologies to a modern microservice architecture. Participate in a team to validate automatically incoming invoices.

Java • JakartaEE • Oracle • Kafka • Kubernetes • Scrum / SAFE

Bison - SmartFarming

10/2021 - 12/2022

Participation in the SmartFarming Team on various microservices for the platforms 365FarmNet and Barto.

Java • Spring • Angular • 365FarmNet • Barto • Scrum

SRF - EAI / PDP

11/2017 - 06/2021

Participation in SRF Online on a platform for processing and providing metadata and videos for use in an online platform. Participation in the new development of a platform for storing publication metadata for the entire SRG.

Scala • Cats • Kafka • Cassandra • Python