Paul Fischer

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Senior Engineering Manager, Millbrook Technologies - observability · CI/CD · service mesh

Millbrook Technologies
Berlin, Germany · CET (UTC+1)
13+ years experience
Sorbonne University
English, German
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Overview

I've spent 14 years on platform engineering - first at ING, now at Millbrook Technologies. Moved 78% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Skills
service meshPythonobservabilityCI/CDKubernetesBackstage
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for localisation for insurers

The idea
Localisation for insurers
Stage
Idea
I bring
5 years in platform engineering
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Berlin or remote

I bring 14 years of platform engineering (currently Millbrook Technologies). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Have a working prototype and design partners.

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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Millbrook Technologies · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Grew the developer platform team from 4 to 14 engineers.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 12 a week to 2.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2021 - Oct 2024
    Novo Nordisk · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Moved 73% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Senior Platform Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Jun 2021
    Microsoft · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 22 a week to 3.
  4. Platform Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
    Maersk · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 2.
    • Wrote the service mesh service that now handles 7 million requests a day.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Dec 2013 - Mar 2016
    ING · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Shipped 20 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
    • Moved 61% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Sorbonne University
    Licence, Electrical Engineering
    2009 - 2012

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