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AmbareenAzam

Associate Software Engineer · Berlin, DE

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LV 3Associate
Class
Backend engineer, frontend heart
Guild
Deutsche Bank — Autobahn Analytics
Region
Berlin, Germany
Main
Java · Spring Boot
Off-hand
React · TypeScript · Node
Motto
Ignoring existential crisis through coding

World map

Student → grad → engineer

Three zones, one continuous save file. Kolkata to Berlin, Unity side projects to production banking infrastructure. Scroll and the cat walks it with you.

Zone 1

The campus arc

Aliah University, Kolkata · student
  • Learned to build by breaking things — C, C++, Python and JavaScript, mostly at 2am.
  • Shipped games in Unity and C#, including a Color Switch clone that taught more about state machines than any lecture.
  • Contributed to open source with FOSSASIA and sent first real pull requests into other people's codebases.
  • Started a LeetCode streak that has now outlived several laptops.
C++Unity / C#FOSSASIA MERNFirst PRs
Zone 2

New game +

Deutsche Bank, Berlin · graduate trainee · from Oct 2023
  • Moved roughly 7,000 km from Kolkata to Berlin and started over in a new country, a new language and a very old codebase.
  • Traded personal projects for enterprise Java: Spring Boot, code review culture, change requests, and release trains.
  • Learned how a bank actually ships software — and how much of engineering is reading logs patiently.
  • Side quest, still active: learning German.
JavaSpring BootGit discipline Code reviewBerlin
Zone 3 — current

Main quest

Associate Software Engineer · Autobahn Analytics · since Sept 2024
  • Led a Spring Boot 2 → 3 migration on a gateway service, replacing Netflix Zuul with Spring Cloud Gateway and untangling proxy, HTTP client and metrics regressions along the way.
  • Rolled out OAuth/OIDC authentication across the team's service APIs and their docs, debugging Spring Security filter chains and Kerberos config to get there.
  • Revived a Gatling/Scala load-testing suite, migrated it from a decommissioned cluster onto OpenShift, and traced a 97% failure rate under load to a default HTTP connection-pool limit of five.
  • Built Grafana and InfluxDB dashboards for restart tracking, duplicate events and service health.
  • Worked on Kafka listeners, leader election across pods, and Oracle SQL migrations.
Spring Boot 3Gatling / ScalaOpenShift KafkaGrafanaOracleTeamCity
Zone 4 — locked

???

Next area · requirements: curiosity, one more migration
  • Still playing. Open to teams building things people actually touch — ideally where the frontend and the backend are both fair game.

Quest log

Personal projects

Things built from scratch, on evenings and weekends. Difficulty is self-assessed and possibly generous.

Purrminder

★★★★

A desktop reminder app for macOS where a cat nags you until you do the thing. Built with Electron, packaged for Apple Silicon.

ElectronNode.jsmacOS
Local build

Hoofstack Academy

★★★★

A coding-help site with a donkey mascot, backed by Node.js and the Gemini API. Explains your bug before it judges you.

Node.jsGemini APIExpress
Local build

job_hunter.py

★★★★

A Python script that sweeps Greenhouse, Lever and SmartRecruiters for EU-based engineering roles and hands back one clean list.

PythonREST APIs
Local build

Job tracker

★★★★

Pipes LinkedIn applications straight into Notion so the tracker stays honest without any manual copy-paste.

JavaScriptNotion API
Open on GitHub ↗

NFT card game

★★★★

A blockchain-based card game — smart contracts, a battle loop, and on-chain cards. The most-starred repo on the profile.

JavaScriptWeb3Solidity
Open on GitHub ↗

ColorSwitch

★★★★

A Unity build of the colour-matching arcade game, written in C#. Collision layers, timing, and the first taste of shipping a game loop.

UnityC#
Open on GitHub ↗

Sudoku solver

★★★★

Build your board, then let backtracking finish it. A small, satisfying algorithm with a browser front end.

HTMLJavaScriptBacktracking
Open on GitHub ↗

Create Memories

★★★★

A place to post memories and keep them. Full-stack JavaScript with auth, uploads and a feed.

ReactNode.jsMongoDB
Open on GitHub ↗

Billing App

★★★★

A simple product inventory and billing tool. Early, unglamorous, and the kind of CRUD that teaches you the fundamentals.

CSSJavaScriptCRUD
Open on GitHub ↗

Achievements

Trophy room

Numbers pulled from LeetCode and GitHub. Mostly evidence of stubbornness.

0
Problems solved
on LeetCode
0
Of them
written in C++
0
Dynamic programming
problems
0
Array problems
solved
0
LeetCode badges
earned
0
Day streak
badge
🦈 Pull Shark ×2 🤝 Pair Extraordinaire ×2 ⚡ Quickdraw 🤠 YOLO 🐙 GitHub Developer Program 🌏 FOSSASIA contributor 🏅 LeetCode 2022 Annual

Side quest — outside the terminal

@espresso_escape

A lifestyle and cultural-observation brand about South Asian expat life in Berlin. Grew from a few hundred followers to roughly 930,000 monthly views — proof that shipping regularly works outside of software too.

Visit ↗

Character sheet

Stats & skills

Years of commits, 833 solved problems, and one production banking platform, translated into bars because bars are more honest than adjectives.

Java / Spring Boot90
C++ / Data structures88
React / TypeScript82
SQL / Oracle76
Node.js / Express72
Cloud & CI — OpenShift, TeamCity, Grafana74
Python70
Kafka / distributed systems68

Join the party

Say hello

Open to interesting problems, good teams, and anyone who wants to argue about whether the frontend or the backend is harder.

GitHub@Ambareen09 LinkedInambareen-azam LeetCode@d3l1l4h X@AzamAmbareen Instagram@espresso_escape