Adrian Sieber

Developer and Entrepreneur

GitHub / ad-si

Stack Overflow / adius

đť•Ź / adriansieber

LinkedIn / adriansieber

Work

Cofounder and CEO

Feram GmbH

2020-07-01 – now

Feram is a software agency specialized in fullstack web development and the implementation of cloud infrastructures.

  • Development and operation of Airsequel
  • Development of a legal case management platform with thousands of users per day

External Consultant

IMP Consulting

2017-05-30 – now

Participating in consulting workshops as an external expert for digitalization, digitally driven business models, and blockchain technologies.

CTO

Qthority GmbH & Co. KG

2019-07-01 – 2020-06-30

Qthority simplifies receiving legal advice by streamlining the data flow during casework.

  • Leading the technical design and managing the IT department
  • Rebuilding the IT infrastructure with micro services on Kubernetes
  • Migration from Zoho CRM and Microsoft Dynamics to Salesforce
  • Migration from a Windows Server based computing environment to Google Cloud

Cofounder and CEO

Feram GmbH

2016-04 – 2019-06-30

Online service which automatically found bugs in code and proposed fixes for them.

Developer and Designer

Freelancer

2011-01-01 – 2020-07

Conception, Implementation, and maintenance of several websites for small businesses.

Student Researcher

Hasso Plattner Institut - Human Computer Interaction Department

2015-10-01 – 2016-03-01

Working on a spin-off in the field of personal fabrication (3D-printing / laser cutting) based on my bachelor project brickify.it. Ideas and concepts were later used to build kyub.com.

Student Researcher

Hasso Plattner Institut - Internet Technologies & Systems Department

2012-11-01 – 2014-02-01

BlogIntelligence was a social media analysis platform backed by a 6 Terabyte HANA in-memory database. My responsibility was to design & develop the frontend and the Node.js backend infrastructure to be able to address and visualize the data crawled into the HANA database. hpi.de/meinel/knowledge-tech/social-media/blog-intelligence

  • Switch from Django to Node.js
  • Reimplementation of frontend
  • Development of various visualizations with D3.js

Cofounder, shared CEO & CTO

Designection UG & Co. KG

2010-05-31 – 2012-10-01

Developed initial version of Chuisy, a shopping companion app. Was one of three founders.

  • Winner of Wayra Startup Competition
  • Construction of a PHP and MySQL based web platform

Education

IT-Systems Engineering

Hasso Plattner Institut

2017-10-01 – 2019-07-01

Master

  • Management Essentials
  • IT Entrepreneurship
  • Web-based Development Environments
  • Polyglot Programming

IT-Systems Engineering

Hasso Plattner Institut

2012-10-01 – 2015-10-01

Bachelor

  • Bachelor Project: Personal Fabrication Devices
  • Human Computer Interaction 1 & 2
  • Database Systems 1
  • Theoretical Computer Science 1 & 2
  • Economy Basics 1 & 2
  • Computer-graphics 1
  • Design Thinking Introduction
  • Math 1 & 2
  • English 2
  • Basics of Digital Systems
  • Internet Technologies
  • Modelling 1 & 2
  • Operating Systems 1
  • Project Management Seminar
  • Programming 1 & 2
  • Law for Engineers 1 & 2
  • Software Architecture
  • Software Engineering

Highschool with Focus on Science

Gymnasium Lindenberg

2002-09-01 – 2011-05-01

Highschool level

  • Advanced Physics
  • Advanced Math
  • Intermediate English
  • Intermediate Ethics

Awards

Winner of HPI Business Plan Competition

2016-09-14

Hasso Plattner Institute

Winner of Wayra Startup Competition

2012-08-24

Telefonica

DPG book award for outstanding achievements in physics

2011-07-01

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physics Society)

Art award for outstanding musical achievements

2011-05-02

Förderkreis Gymnasium Lindenberg e.V. (Gymnasium Lindenberg promotion society)

3. place in the first round of the Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik 2010 (Federal math competition)

2010-06-09

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Skills

Web Development

Master

  • Elm
  • PureScript
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • SVG

Backend Development

Master

  • Node.js / Deno / Bun
  • Haskell
  • SQLite
  • MongoDB
  • Firebase

DevOps

Master

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Continus Integration & Deployment

3D Modelling and Fabrication

Intermediate

  • OpenSCAD
  • 3D printing
  • Inkscape
  • Laser cutting

UI & UX Design

Intermediate

  • Affinity Designer & Photo
  • Inkscape
  • Gimp
  • Figma

Languages

German Native speaker
English Fluent
Esperanto Beginner
Latin Advanced proficiency certificate

Interests

Sailing

  • Bodenseeschifferpatent

Skiing

Music production