Sam Bokai Full Stack Software Engineer
Work Experience
Sep 2020 – presentCologne, Germany
Fernpunkt, Freelance Software Engineer
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025Düsseldorf, Germany
Vorwerk, Software Engineer (External Consultant)
Mar 2024 – Sep 2024Rothenburg, Switzerland
Pistor AG, Software Engineer (External Consultant)
Aug 2023 – Jan 2024Frankfurt a.M., Germany
DB Regio AG, Software Engineer (External Consultant)
Jan 2022 – Sep 2023Cologne, Germany
RTL Deutschland GmbH, Senior Software Engineer (External Consultant)•Developed the backend for multiple TV-native apps (Samsung Tizen, LG, Roku, Vodafone) •Managed and instructed 3 external software teams who were tasked with the development of the frontends
Oct 2021 – Dec 2021Frankfurt, Germany
DB Systel GmbH (Deutsche Bahn AG), Software Engineer (External Consultant)•Developed and maintained a serverless IoT application for logistics subsidiary DB Cargo AG using AWS Lambda •Enabled the end customer to track and trace their cargo shipments with high accuracy and availability
Jan 2021 – Aug 2021Berlin, Germany
Contentful GmbH, Software Engineer•Maintained and extended the official Javascript and Typescript SDKs •Architected internal and public APIs with millions of requests per hour
May 2019 – Oct 2020Berlin, Germany
Klarna Bank AB, Software Engineer•Built and scaled growth-focused marketing channels (push, in-app, blog) directly contributing to a user base of over 8 million monthly active users
Oct 2017 – May 2019Berlin, Germany
Immobilien Scout GmbH (Scout24 AG), Software Developer•Designed and developed a fraud-detection and management web app using Scala (Play), Java (Spring Boot) and Python
Education
2016 – 2019Berlin, Germany
HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics, Computer Science
Skills
TypeScript, Scala, Java (JVM), Node.js, React, Next.js, React Native, Nest.js, Kafka, ETL / Data pipelines, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, REST, JSON, AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS, CloudFormation, CloudFront, DynamoDB), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Git, Jest, Kibana, Grafana, Auth0, Firebase, VS Code, IntelliJ, Marketing tech & growth engineering, Scrum, Agile, SAFe
Languages
German — Native|English — Highly proficient|Persian|French|Spanish — Elementary