Alexander Pospiech

Team Lead
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Database Engineer

Team lead with 4+ years of experience in leading teams.
Passionate software engineer with 10+ years experience in building applications, databases and pipelines.

Work Experience

Group Head - Engineering Platform

2025.05 - Present

Wemolo GmbH, Munich

  • Leading a mixed team of cloud, devops and database reliability engineers.
  • Leading engineering security initiatives and red teaming.
  • Refactoring the central PostgreSQL, adding extended HA features, based on PostgreSQL, pgbouncer, Patroni, pgbackrest.

Team Lead - Cloud&Data

2022.07 - 2025.05

Wemolo GmbH, Munich

  • Leading a mixed team of cloud, devops, database reliability, and data warehouse engineers.
  • Refactoring the data warehouse into a scalable, open-source solution. Based on BigQuery, Airbyte, dagster, dbt.
  • Refactoring the central PostgreSQL, adding simple HA features, refactoring the backup & restore procedure, and continuous optimisation and maintenance.
  • Refactoring the central logging platform based on ElasticCloud to be scalable and reliable.
  • AWS: EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, ECS, ...
  • GCP: BigQuery, IAM
  • Services: Gitlab, ElasticCloud
  • Cloud technologies: Terraform
  • Programming: Python, Bash, SQL

Data Engineer

2020.01 - 2022.06

Münchener Hyp e.G., Munich

  • On-premise legacy datalake architecture: maintenance, enhancement, hardening of the cluster. Based on Hortonworks.
  • Custom build data platform as replacement of the datalake: planning, development and maintenance. Based on Python, prefect, streamlit, and MSSQL.
  • Applications (UIs, APIs): planning, development and administration. Based on Python, steamlit, and MSSQL.
  • Advocation of new data-based and -driven tools and usecases.
  • Lunch and learn organization and speaker.
  • Mentoring of working student.
  • Introduction and coaching of agile methods.

Data Engineer

2015.01 - 2019.12

inovex GmbH, Munich

  • Planning, implementation, maintenance of big data architectures, applications and pipelines.
  • Database development and administration.
  • Software planning and development.
  • Research, including its management - focusing security, big data and machine learning.
  • Meetup organization and speaker.
  • Student supervision.

Education

Diploma Computer Science

2004 - 2014

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Specialization in Databases and Data Processing

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

PostgreSQL

Linux

AWS

ElasticCloud/Kibana

GCP

Languages

German Native
English Professional

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