Bernd Strehl

Product-minded Full Stack Software Engineer.

Hamburg, Germany, CET

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About

I don’t just ship tickets, I take ownership of holistic solutions that align technical execution with business goals. I’m deeply invested in Developer Experience, continuously improving internal tooling and workflows to boost team velocity and code quality. I thrive in complex problem spaces and am trusted to deliver high-impact solutions quickly and clearly across technical and non-technical teams.

Work Experience

VOIDS
Hybrid

10/2024 - ongoing

Senior Product Engineer

Rebuilt our most complex module under a tight deadline to close and retain key customers. Led foundational work to transform our stack for Developer Experience — introducing full type safety and adopting a full-stack framework that significantly accelerated development. Regularly lead projects in high-complexity domains, balancing speed, maintainability, and product impact.
Next.js
Typescript
React
Node.js
AWS
Postgres
Drizzle
Tailwind
Vercel

topi
Remote

12/2022 - 10/2024

Senior Software Engineer

Planning, leading and implementing projects in the Go backend. Supporting operations and finance with automations and tooling saving over 50% time. Designing and developing the core of the billing system, that is central for scaling our business.
Go
Terraform
GCP

Hoppe Marine GmbH

01/2022 - 11/2022

Senior Cloud Developer

Architected, built, rolled-out and maintained serverless microservices and data pipelines running on AWS using AWS Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3 and DynamoDB.
AWS
Python
AWS Lambda
Serverless Framework
Terraform

Tixl (elbstack subsidiary)

07/2019 - 12/2021

(Blockchain) Software Engineer & CTO

Designed and implemented a prototype for a highly scalable DAG-based crypto network with full privacy for the subsidiary Tixl of elbstack. Integrated our products with Ethereum, ERC20 and BTC. Developed and tested smart contracts with Solidity.
TypeScript
Node.js
AWS
Solidity

elbstack GmbH

02/2019 - 06/2019

Software Engineer

Created applications in front- and backend for different customers. Supported customer teams with software development.
TypeScript
Node.js
React

Netlight

10/2018 - 01/2019

Consultant

Supported customers with development capacities, by setting up frontend and payment, and training a Junior Software Engineer.
TypeScript
React

Education

University of Hamburg

2016 - 2018
Master of Science - Information Systems

University of Kiel

2013 - 2016
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems

Skills

TypeScript
Next.js
Node.js
AWS
SQL
Terraform
Serverless
React
Go
Python

Projects

Beer Stock

A simple app to keep track of your homebrew bottles left in your stash.

TypeScript
Next.js
shadcn/ui
Tailwind
Vercel KV
Clerk Auth

PizzaOfTheWeek.com

Weekly changing pizza topping inspiration and dough calculator.

OpenAI
Vercel AI SDK
TypeScript
Next.js
Tailwind
Vercel KV
Vercel Blob Storage
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