Nina Braun

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Senior Engineering Manager at Gather Finance · service mesh, CI/CD

Gather Finance
Berlin, Germany · CET (UTC+1)
10+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, German, Spanish
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Overview

Based in Berlin. I lead platform engineering at Gather Finance. Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 15 engineers. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 3. Before that: Farfetch and Spotify. Most at home with observability and CI/CD. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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Skills
Kubernetesservice meshBackstageCI/CDBazelobservability
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a design-minded co-founder: field-service scheduling in North America

The idea
Field-service scheduling in North America
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
7 years in platform engineering
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Berlin or remote

I bring 10 years of platform engineering (currently Gather Finance). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Berlin, Germanyservice meshbackstageci/cd
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Gather Finance · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
    • Built the experimentation framework 40 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Feb 2020 - Aug 2023
    Farfetch · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 419ms to 64ms.
    • Moved 84% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
    Spotify · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 735ms to 75ms.
  4. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
    Meta · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 26% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 18 a week to 4.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Information Technology
    2011 - 2015

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