Hendrik Söbbing
Senior Software Developer

Hendrik Söbbing

Ahaus, Germany

About

Senior Developer with 15+ years of experience in software development. Focus on backend development with DevOps and cloud expertise. Experience as an employee, freelancer, and consultant across various company sizes. Specialized in high-load web applications, modern software design patterns, and cloud-native architectures.

Resume

Work Experience

Senior PHP Developer

Team Internet AG
June 2021 - Present
Munich
  • Continuous development and scaling of the world's leading domain parking system with ~250 million domains and 1+ billion daily impressions.
  • Global operations across data centers in Munich, Canada, and various AWS regions.
  • AI Integration: Proactive use of AI tools (LLMs) to accelerate the software development lifecycle.
  • Product Feature Development: Implementation of AI-powered features.
  • Modernization: Refactoring organically grown legacy structures with modern software design patterns.
  • Scalable Security: Automation of SSL certificate provisioning and management.

Lead Developer

Shopmacher eCommerce GmbH & Co. KG
February 2020 - June 2021
Gescher
  • Development of complex shop systems based on Shopware 6, ElasticSearch, Redis, and MySQL.
  • Leadership of a seven-person team in SCRUM process.
  • Customer consulting for technical details.
  • Planning, architecture, and implementation of customer solutions.

Product Owner Shopware

shopware AG
November 2016 - February 2020
Schöppingen
  • Responsible for development of "Shopware 5" product, the leading shop software for mid-sized companies.
  • Software architecture evolution.
  • Product roadmap planning.
  • CI/CD pipeline expansion.
  • Development team leadership.

Senior Software Developer

SHOPMACHER eCommerce GmbH & Co. KG
February 2014 - October 2016
Gescher
  • Development of distributed shop systems with a self-developed frontend based on PHP with Symfony, ElasticSearch, and MySQL.

Founder & CIO

chocoBRAIN GmbH & Co. KG
August 2009 - December 2014
Heidelberg
  • Planning and development of the social community platform "chocoBRAIN".
  • Responsible for architecture and development of the platform and all technical matters.

Product Manager SmartShoppingAds

United Internet Media AG
January - July 2009
Karlsruhe
  • Technical product management for B2B online marketing systems SmartShoppingAds and SmartShopping CoBox.

Head of Web Application Development

mediaBEAM GmbH
2005 - 2008
Ahaus
  • Planning and development of high-performance and reliable web applications.
  • Technical planning and project management.

Side Projects

Handcoding Web Services

2003 - Present

Development and operation of various own affiliate portals and web applications based on various technologies such as PHP and Symfony, Golang, and Java.

References

ParkingCrew

Lead responsibility (in a small team) for further development of a massively distributed system for parked domains with >100M requests/day.

Shopware 5

Technical product responsibility for the (at the time) market-leading Open Source shop system in the mid-sized business sector.

eBay Relevance Ad

Lead responsibility for planning and development of a context-sensitive banner system for eBay items, designed for billions of impressions per month, similar to Google AdSense.

Education

FH Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt Campus

Business Informatics Studies (without degree)
2002 - 2005

WM eLogistik GmbH

Apprenticeship: Application Developer (Fachinformatiker)
2000 - 2002
Bocholt

Development of web applications in LAMP and Microsoft (IIS/ASP) environments.

Alexander-Hegius-Gymnasium

Abitur (German university entrance qualification)
1992 - 2000
Ahaus

Skills

Core

High-load web applicationsNginxCaddyPHP (Symfony, Laravel)GolangMySQLMongoDB

DevOps

CI/CD & DevOpsGitLabDocker

Cloud & IaC

AWS CloudInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAWS CDK

Other

Java (Spring/Hibernate)JavaScript (NodeJS, VueJS, Svelte)C#/.NETRuby on Rails

Languages

Deutsch
Native
English
Fluent, written and spoken