I have been working as a software engineer at dynabase since 2023. So far I have been working on several projects ranging from SaaS to product configurators. Most of the time I am involved in one of the following activities:

• Implementing and maintaining several product configurators for one of our customers:
  • Running data imports from the companies product database
  • Programming configurator logic and physical formulas for calculating the validity and lifetime of available products
  • Maintenance of an internal framework to standardize the development of configurators across multiple teams
• Working on new features and bugfixes for a SaaS product:
  • Programming of a scalable web crawler and scraper, which extracts product information from e-commerce sites
  • Configuration of a text embedding pipeline for products to implement a semantic search for online shops
  • Implementation of a retrieval-augmented-generation system to assist customers in finding the right product for their needs

I worked as a software engineering trainee at web fabric GmbH in Wuppertal for 3 days a week while I visited a university the rest of the week. At work, we developed complex configurators, shops and other custom solutions for our customers. My typical day at work contained the following activities:

• Implementing new features in the front- or backend of product configuration platforms using our Techstack (Angular, Symfony and Postgres)
• Reviewing Angular code of my coworkers and assissting them in writing performant and reactive code
• Maintaining an internal framework to handle rendering and change-processing of forms with several hundred fields and options
• Improving the requirements engineering workflow at our company