Resume

Karsten Silz

Senior full-stack Java developer and managing director of Better Projects Faster GmbH. Software development since 1996 in five European countries and the USA, freelancer since 2003, co-founder and CTO of two companies. Based in Stuttgart, Germany, since June 2024.

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Selected Skills

Expert

Java (26 years)
Relational databases (31 years)
Technical writing (25 years)

Specialist

Spring (10 years)
Spring Boot (7 years)
Angular (6 years)
Flutter (5 years)
SQL (22 years)
Remote work (12 years)

Advanced

TypeScript
React
Docker
Kubernetes
Kafka
GraphQL
Terraform
MongoDB

German: native · English: fluent (22 years of English-language projects)

Java Projects

2023–2024

Goldbach neXT (Switzerland)

Ad booking system with 14 microservices on AWS and Kubernetes — backend development with Java and Spring Boot.
since 2020

Your Home in Good Hands (UK) — Co-founder & CTO

SaaS platform for cat sitters: JHipster, Angular, and Spring Boot plus Flutter apps for iOS and Android — as a one-man project.
2004–2017

Seldon Systems (USA) — Co-founder & CTO

13 years of product development: "Continuity-SPS" reached 80% market share in the North American cable TV industry — successful company sale.
1996–2003

Positions in Germany and the Netherlands

Agent research at AMS (NL), VoiceXML applications at Mundwerk (incl. the Telekom app for the 2002 FIFA World Cup), projects at PDV-Systeme and Kirchhoff.

Speaker & Author

18 conference talks 2021–2023 (JavaLand 4×, JAX 3×, Devoxx UK 2×, and more)
Program committees: QCon London 2022, Devoxx UK 2023, JavaLand 2025
Editor on the InfoQ Java team — 1.2M+ readers per month
Interviews with Josh Long, James Ward, and others

Education

Diplom-Informatiker (MSc equivalent in Computer Science), TU Dresden (1990–1996). Final grade "very good", top 10% of the class. Majors: software engineering and databases.

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26+ years of Java, two company foundings, enterprise projects in six countries — let's talk about what helps you most.

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