Vincent Benedikt Menzel

Senior Software Engineer — Distributed Systems

Work history and education of Vincent Menzel, senior cloud developer and technical product manager.

Heidenheim, DE·Senior Software Engineer & Tech PM·Open to consulting·100k+ users, 250 enterprise accounts

Core Stack:TypeScriptGoPythonNode.jsNestJSDockerKubernetesTerraformPostgresAWSGCP

Where I've shipped

3 EXPERIENCE

PCG GmbH · Enterprise Cloud Platforms · Germany

04.2024 → now

Eliminated AWS API throttling outages across ~250 enterprise accounts by architecting a multi-tenant customer data platform with cross-account state mirroring and cached security-group snapshots under strict API rate limits.
Scaled B2C creator platform to 25,000 active users and 100 creators by leading a 12-person engineering team through a 12-month full system rebuild, defining service boundaries, data ownership contracts, and progressive zero-downtime rollout strategies.
Guaranteed zero double-spend incidents and auditable revenue attribution across asynchronous settlement flows by designing an idempotent token ledger and referral attribution system using at-least-once delivery and deduplicated transaction logs.
Accelerated enterprise delivery by taking full systems ownership of a stalled sustainability-reporting platform mid-delivery, restructuring domain boundaries to ship on schedule to 350 enterprise customers.
Raised engineering hiring standards across 3 technical rounds by defining standardized system-design and distributed-systems assessment rubrics.

Devoteam GmbH · Cloud & Utility Analytics · Germany

10.2022 → 03.2024

Enforced strict fault isolation across utility telemetry by designing and shipping 4 microservices for a meter-collection platform serving utility field teams, establishing strict API contracts between ingestion, processing, and analytics tiers.
Prevented data-loss spikes during high-concurrency ingestion by engineering real-time interpolation and leak-detection pipelines equipped with backpressure-aware stream processing for distributed field sensors.
Unblocked multi-team delivery roadmap as de facto Tech Lead for a 6-person cross-functional team (2 frontend, 3 backend, 1 data), resolving systemic distributed state inconsistency across pipeline stages.
Accelerated team engineering maturity by mentoring junior engineers through 1:1s and structured code reviews, facilitating their promotion to senior software roles.

code'n'ground AG · Digital Health & Enterprise Systems · Germany

10.2019 → 08.2022

Shipped DiGA-track medical therapy app to 100k+ active downloads, enforcing strict EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) compliance, audit trails, and deterministic state execution across 49 clinical exercises.
Engineered conflict-free clinical exercise scheduler using prerequisite-gated state machines and category isolation across motor, holding, and utensil-based therapy tracks.
Delivered automated emotion-recognition assessment platform for Ulm University researchers, implementing reproducible configuration state that secured Phase 2 research grant funding.
Modernized client application stack by migrating legacy jQuery/CodeIgniter monoliths to component-driven Angular SPAs, reducing page render latency.
Enforced environmental compliance routing in a hazardous waste marketplace by building rule-based matching algorithms linking certified disposal providers with industrial waste producers.
Completed intensive software engineering program covering full-stack web development, relational schema design, and asynchronous architecture.
Architected multi-tenant e-commerce platform with strict tenant data isolation across shared persistence boundaries.
Built modular equipment configurator enforcing validation rules across complex mechanical assembly options.

2 Degrees

10.2019 → 10.2022Dual Degree

B.Sc. Business Informatics

code'n'ground AG / DHBW

Focus on distributed software systems, data modeling, and web applications.

09.2009 → 06.2018Abitur

Higher Education Entrance

Gymnasium

Distributed Systems

Event-driven architecture, CQRS, idempotent processing, microservices

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, GCP, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless architecture

Reliability & Testing

OpenTelemetry, automated tracing, unit & integration testing

Compliance & Health Tech

DiGA medical device regulations, MDR Class I software standards

Open to technical consulting & engineering lead roles

If your team needs cloud-native delivery, technical leadership, or a thoughtful pair on a hard problem, the door is open.