Nina Neumann

Overview

I lead payments infrastructure at Saffron Commerce in Berlin. Wrote the Kafka service that now handles 51 million requests a day. Before that: Volkswagen Group and Nestlé. Most at home with Kafka and PCI DSS.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Aug 2022 - Present
   Saffron Commerce · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
   • Led the migration of 21 services to idempotency.
   • Moved 82% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
   Volkswagen Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
   • Took payment success rates from 92.3% to 97.9%.
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 27 a week to 1.
3. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
   Nestlé · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 9 million transactions a day.
4. Backend Engineer

   Jul 2016 - Mar 2018
   Feedzai · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
   • Took payment success rates from 95.4% to 98.4%.
5. Staff Backend Engineer

   Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
   BBVA · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 404ms to 131ms.
   • Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

1. Humboldt University of Berlin

   BA, Mathematics
   1997 - 2000