Daniel Hoffmann

Senior Engineering Manager at Kite Commerce | ex-SAP

Kite Commerce

Vienna, Austria · CET (UTC+1)

11+ years experience

Humboldt University of Berlin

English, German

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Overview

11 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Kite Commerce, where I lead the storage team. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 663ms to 147ms. Most at home with RocksDB and consensus.

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consensusperformance engineeringRustGraphQLC++RocksDB

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Nov 2024 - Present
Kite Commerce · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 660ms to 82ms.
- Moved 72% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Staff Software Engineer
Sep 2023 - Nov 2024
SAP · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
- Led the migration of 29 services to RocksDB.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 17 a week to 2.
Software Engineer
May 2020 - Sep 2023
Celonis · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
- Moved 63% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Software Engineer
Feb 2017 - May 2020
Nestlé · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Vienna, Austria
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 15 a week to 2.
- Shipped 26 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
Software Engineer
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
BlaBlaCar · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
- Wrote the Rust service that now handles 33 million requests a day.

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Education

Humboldt University of Berlin
BA, Computer Science
2011 - 2014

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