Rico Klimpel
Work
  • Sep2022 - Current
    slashwhy
    Software Engineer
    • Fullstack development on a data management and analysis application for wind turbine development using mainly Java Springboot and Angular, changes to microservices in Go and Python and deployment via Gitlab CI/CD & Kubernetes
    • Development work on a custom C# .NET framework and shell application for a plugin architecture, aimed at redesigning and consolidating an existing large project landscape in the field of simulation and validation systems for control and automation technology
    • Developed a concept for cross-team internal developer documentation in a large software project
    • Participated in hiring interviews
    • Organized internal hackathons
    • Organized & Contributed to internal knowledge sharing among developers
  • Oct2021 - Sep2022
    macio GmbH
    Software Developer
    • Creation of a test automation system for a customer for a new IoT gateway device and its software components
    • Software development on an embedded web project in Angular
    • Dockerization and porting of an existing Angular application with ASP .NET backend to new hardware
    • Fullstack development on a new application using ASP .NET core backend and Angular frontend partially inherited from another project, deploying to a Linux device
  • May2021 - Sep2022
    ThoJa Software Engineering GmbH
    Software Developer
    • Modernization of the company’s internal tools, set up new project management and version control software
    • Development on applications of a warehouse management system in Delphi & C#/.NET and creation of new tools in the same context
    • Analyzing single functionalities and entire applications in Delphi/Pascal and rebuilding as new application with new architecture under .NET
  • Aug2019 - May2021
    ThoJa Software Engineering GmbH
    Working Student - Software Development
    • Research work on the transition of existing projects from Windows to Android
    • Development of smaller program modules with .NET and Delphi
  • Oct2016 - Jun2021
    Kiel University
    Bachelor, Informatik
    • Bachelor thesis: “Development of a concept and prototype for an expandable entry-level system in the field of digitalization in production”
  • Oct2016 - Oct2021
    macio GmbH
    Working Student - Software Testing & Sotware Development
    • Manual software testing
    • Test specifications and documents
    • Scripts for automation of repetitive tasks in testing and deployment
    • Initial test automation setup and development of automated software tests
    • Software development on an embedded web project in Angular
  • Aug2012 - Jul2016
    Alstergymnasium, Henstedt-Ulzburg
    Abitur, Physics
    Skills / Used Tech / Known Tools
    • Software Development
    • Agile Development / Scrum
    • Software Architecture
    • Git
    • Docker
    • CI/CD / DevOps
    • Frontend Development
    • Backend Development
    • Fullstack Development
    • TypeScript / JavaScript
    • Python
    • Java
    • C# / .NET
    • Angular
    • HTML / CSS
    • Node.js / npm / yarn
    • Spring Boot
    • Flutter / Dart
    • Shell / Bash Scripting
    • MacOS / Windows / Linux
    • Markdown
    • VS Code / IntelliJ
    • Jira / Confluence
    • Software Documentation
    • Test Automation
    • Robotframework
    • REST
    • NestJS
    • SQL
    • VS Code / JetBrains IDEs
    • Astro
    • Github / Gitlab / Azure