Curriculum Vitae Ingo Karkat

I'm a professional software developer with a strong interest in software engineering practices. My fascination with electronics and programming started early in the home computer age; I found a satisfying place in various open source projects, and I enjoy working in large, complex projects in a multi-cultural professional environment. With my commitment to the highest standards of quality and craft, I enjoy steadily improving on the code and watching the software grow and adapt.

Contact Information

Name:	Ingo Karkat
Email:
Website:	https://ingo-karkat.de/
Date of birth:	April 20, 1976
Nationality:	German
Personal:	Married, one daughter

Employment

2022 - 2024	Resilient TechEd GmbH Java- and Minecraft-Developer I've built up and lead the development team of Edutainment startup since their first beta release of the original prototype, established software engineering processes and automated testing, refactored core components and cloud infrastructure, adopted open source components and built features for CodeQuest, a story-driven adventure to teach Python programming to students.
2016 - 2021	HPE OpsBridge (transferred to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, then merged with Micro Focus International plc) Software Development Engineer Within a small agile team, I've stripped down our grown management product for novel use in a hyperconverged appliance, then applied these optimizations to create the first containerized, service-oriented autonomous monitoring solution for Hybrid IT, and accompanied its central configuration and orchestration component through an intense phase of expansion, did technical support and maintenance for the entire product, and enabled the product installation in public cloud environments.
2009 - 2016	HP Software (reorganized from HP OpenView through acquisitions) Software Development Engineer In a development effort that encompassed the entire team, we built an integration component that both reused proven in-house components while implementing a modern Java-based web application with a Flex rich client UI. In addition to development, I contributed to the large effort with both on-site and off-site collaborators in the areas of requirements analysis, build optimization, and component installation. Then I've extended various components of the Operations management product with new functionalities both on HTML / Flex frontends and Grails backends, done long-term maintenance, increased robustness of code and builds through continuous refactoring, managed CI and defect backlogs, and extended test coverage. For several years, I've extended and maintained one of the most central components for content import and export (reaching practically fault-free quality), while also being engaged in various product areas, often also in a coordinating role with distributed teams.
2008 - 2009	parental leave took care of daughter Hannah for 12 months
2005 - 2008	HP OpenView ITSM Software Development Engineer Our team worked together with SAP to jointly design a web service interface for the exchange of helpdesk incidents between SAP Solution Manager and HP OpenView Service Desk. We implemented a prototype in Java, extended the support to a completely rewritten successor version, and finally ported our connector to another acquired service desk product. All of that was transitioned in beta-state to a team in China, which productized and released it as an implementation service offered by HP Consulting.
1999 - 2006	HP OpenView Application Management Software Development Engineer Reinforced a diverse team by contributing to the porting effort of an SAP monitoring plugin from an HP-UX / Solaris management server to Windows NT, building on MFC, DCOM and a Unix-centric tool set. I identified and split off a reusable component, which was then used by other teams located around the world. I led the development of that component for 5 and contributed to the SAP-SPI for 7 releases before both were transitioned to Slovenia and India, respectively.
1996 - 1999	Hewlett-Packard GmbH Student of Information Technology Internships and project work in IT, medical, und software QA during my dual course of studies, in between semesters.
1992	Rohde Electronic GmbH High School Student Two-week internship at a small IT service provider during which I helped install Local Area Networks at various SMBs, assembled and installed PC components.

Education

1999	Graduate Engineer (Diplom-Ingenieur (BA)) Information Technology grades: theoretical 1.5; practical 1.7 1 diploma thesis at HP OpenView Business Unit - Software Test Support: Development of a library and environment for automated system tests with the test management system TestExpert for client-server applications of the HP OpenView product family.
1998	Engineer Assistant (BA) grades: theoretical 1.4; practical 1.3 1 assistant thesis at HP Patient Monitoring Division R&D: Design and implementation of a voice control prototype for the HP patient monitor, with emphasis on the communication between PC and device.
1996 - 1999	Student at Berufsakademie Stuttgart Information Technology, specialization networking and media Dual course of studies in conjunction with a practical trainee program and internships at Hewlett-Packard GmbH in Böblingen
1986 - 1995	High School at Einstein-Gymnasium in Rheda-Wiedenbrück graduation in mathematics, chemistry, English, history average grade: 1.7 1

Relevant Experience

keen interest and fascination with technical things, computer science and software development
thorough and wide knowledge in software engineering and project management
high-quality, deeply professional approach
self-driven and motivated work in small teams and large organizations
structured, planned approach to work, seeking continuous improvement
flexible, customer-oriented collaboration in a challenging world-wide, multi-cultural and changing environment

excellent technical English (spoken and written)
elementary Japanese
typist 50 words per minute; modal text editor vi (with hundreds of plugins and virtually all keys mapped)
drivers' license for cars and trucks (European categories BCE)

Skills

Operating Systems: public clouds Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, various Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, CentOS, …), Microsoft Windows (3.1, 95, NT4.0, XP, 20…), BSD (Free BSD 8.1, PC-BSD 9.0), HP-UX (10, 11), Sun Solaris, IBM AIX
Programming: Java (Hibernate, Spring, Apache Commons) / Groovy, xUnit (jUnit, Hamcrest, Mockito), Vimscript, REST / SOAP / WSDL, SQL, Unix shell (POSIX, Korn, Bash), DOS, VBScript/VBA, JavaScript, DHTML/Ajax/CSS, XML (Schema, XSLT, XPath), Adobe Flex, Perl, Python, C (gcc), C++ (MFC), COM/DCOM
Tool Set: Vim editor, MS Visual Studio, Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEs; version control: mostly Git, Subversion, ClearCase; build: Maven, Ant, make, Imake
Technologies: VMware ESX, Docker containers, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, etcd, Vault, Helm, Apache Httpd, Apache Tomcat, JBoss AS, Apache Samba, TWiki Wiki, SAP R/3, SAP NetWeaver, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, Windows Server Clustering & HA in HP-UX
Software Engineering: design patterns, micro services, refactoring, Clean Code, lean development, Agile (XP, Scrum, SAFe), requirements analysis & architecture, use cases, UML, CRC, coding guidelines, test management, -plan, -matrix, security, usability & UX, third-level product support
Project leadership: feature definition, iteration planning, sprint demo and training for field support engineers, worldwide multi-cultural project work, collaboration in cross-functional teams (marketing, sales, customer support, documentation, QA), collaboration und knowledge databases, team coordination, ownership transition to off-shore teams, WBS, Gantt-chart, MS Project, metrics, postmortems and retrospectives

Ingo Karkat; as of 05-Aug-2024

German grades: 1 - very good, 2 - good, 3 - satisfactory, 4 - adequate, 5 - inadequate, 6 - fail