James Lee

Eduard Marbach

Founder (raydak GmbH) & Cloud Architect

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About Me

Hi! I am freelance software developer from Germany. Currently I am working mainly as Fullstack Developer and DevOps Expert. Beside I founded together with my partner the raydak GmbH for expert level IT consulting. I am interested in state of the art technologies and especially in DevOps culture & strategies. This includes the overall working model combined with building/deployment mechanisms with Docker and Kubernetes. Automizing all parts where possible drives performance and helps focusing on the important parts. Check out the rest of my website to see all the stuff I did!

Aside from tech I am interested in sports like bouldering, hiking and fitness. The best happens when I can combine it with traveling in new countries. The best ideas and creations happen when you can enjoy your daily life while working in amazing locations!

Work Experience

Founder - raydak GmbH (01/2022 - Present)

Fullstack Deveopment & Consulting

  • Expert level Kubernetes Knowhow
  • Expert level AWS architecture
  • Consulting & Workshops

Co-Head of Engineering - CRBN AI (06/2023 - Present)

Professional AI solutions

  • AI Solution for interaction with a vast amount of documents in a easy and secure approach
  • Integration with multiple LLM solutions like ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude
  • Consulting & Workshops

Cloud Architect - DB Systel GmbH (01/2023 - 09/2024)

Project for the next generation global network automation

  • Modernizing Deutsche Bahn’s future network infrastructure, based on Kubernetes and its state-of-the-art eco system together with a unified and fully automated solution.
  • Responsible for the designing and setting up the cloud architecture in AWS
  • Responsible for full automation and rollout (Continuous integration and rollout combined with Infrastructure as Code)
  • Consulting & Workshops

Software Architect - Mercedes-Benz AG (10/2019 - 04/2022)

Fullstack development with focus on DevOps strategies. Responsible as Software architect for future production system.

  • Evaluate and create architectures with AWS for future solution in production environment.
  • PLUS (MES) modernization with regards to cloud providers AWS and Azure
  • Leader of developers for TAFmeasures
  • Maintain/Development on MO360-FTK (Microfrontend Framework)
  • Full development of KPI Dashboard for global IT: Full internally from dev to release to deployment and monitoring! (Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript, React, Elastic-Stack, Grafana/Prometheus, ...)
  • Project Lead & Development - MO Connect
  • Development of new Dashboard - TAFmeasures
  • DevOps strategy and training with Azure Pipelines
  • Docker, Kubernetes, DHC (Daimler Hybrid Cloud)
  • Adapting and driving OpenID Connect technology

Fullstack Developer - Daimler AG - ITO (06/2018 - 10/2019)

  • WebApp Development
  • Development on Switch (Framework for WebApps)
  • Project-Lead and Development of production application MO Connect
  • Development and Establishment of Daimler Styleguide
  • Different backend and infrastructure projects
  • Driving DevOps strategy base on CI/CD pipelines via Gitlab and Azure DevOps
  • Docker, Kubernetes, DHC (Daimler Hybrid Cloud)
  • Agile Coordinator

Working student (Software engineer) - Daimler AG - ITD (07/2017 - 05/2018)

  • Machine Learning, App-Development
  • Fullstack Development of server and web applications
  • innovation-Driven focus
  • Server-Management and administration
  • Testing of DevOps strategies via CI/CD pipelines based on Gitlab and Rancher
  • Cultural Change, Agile Transformation and Coaching
  • OpenSource Development (Restyaboard)

Working student (Software engineer) - AEB GmbH (04/2015 - 06/2017)

  • Development of international solutions for customs including export, import and transit
  • Close co-operation with foreign counties

Reasearch assistant - University Stuttgart (10/2013 - 04/2016)

  • Development WebVOWL
  • Development OWL2VOWL

Latest Projects

raydak-Labs

AIFred

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A helper tool for all freelancers which helps to focus on getting projects and work done instead of writing responses to recruiters. With an AI approach we generate automated replies for requests from recruiters based on your defined skills and desires.

https://aifred.raydak.de

raydak-Labs

Configarr - Media sync tool

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This is our contribution to the open source world with different projects and use-cases which provides useful features.

Automation tool for synchronzing media configuration services with radarr and sonarr. Configarr

Documentation

raydak-Labs

Engilada - Crypto transaction provider (discontinued)

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Transaction provider similar to Paypal integrating different wallet implementations to execute smart contract transaction or move coins between wallets. Separate page which follows similar redirect concept like paypal. Discontinued project.

raydak-Labs

Pylon - IOTA NFT Marketplace (discontinued)

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NFT Marketplace for the IOTA Foundation and MIOTA Coin. Discontinued project.

raydak-Labs

IOTA projects / contributions (discontinued)

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Different projects and tasks for the IOTA Foundation.

TAFmeasures

#TwiceAsFast Dashboard

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Dashboard to keep track of all different numbers and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) which you want to keep an eye on and track. This is combined with actual values and targets which you can specify for date ranges. The data pools include all different areas from IT, HR, ...

LinkedIn article of Jan Brecht, Daimler CIO

MO360-FTK

Framework for Microfrontends

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A microfrontend framework connecting multiple webapps during runtime together. More information TBA.

Github

MO Connect

WebApp + Native App for helping in production

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Assume you have different tools, applications and information pools which you have to keep track on to get your work done. This can be really annoying depending on the device and time you have to do it. MO Connect is an application which helps to get all your information and apps together into one place and makes it accessible easily. This involves authentication, authorization in different levels which is shared across the applications.

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Restyaboard (Kanban Board)

Restyaboard is Kanban Board solution similiar to Trello or Wekan. My role in the project was the introduction of a Docker based deployment solution. Still i am the main maintainer for Docker part of the project. Additionally i have introduced a straigthforward CI solutions to build and release the docker images on base of the DEV branch and Github Tags.

Github

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Cloudistry (Master thesis)

Web-based platform for connecting generic services wrapped inside a docker container. Main focus is to integrate and connect machines from the industry a flow-like interacting model like BPMN to produce graphs which represent workflows. Multiple cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, ... are supported for deploying the containers. The communication of the services are based on the messaging infrastructure with Apache Kafka.

Smart Production article

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InformatiCup 2017 (2nd place winner)

Competition of the German Association for Computer Science. This year’s InformatiCup challenge is dedicated to the new possibilities that arise based on the application of artificial intelligence and repository mining - based on the social coding platform GitHub. The challenge was to develop an automatic repository classifier of github repositories. The competion was cooperating with GitHub and Amazon.

GitHub

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WebVOWL + OWL2VOWL (Visualization of ontology based data)

OWL (Web Ontology Language) represents ontologies with a formal language. Together with the visual representation VOWL it can be used to visualize connected data. WebVOWL is an WebApp to visualize this language multiple ontologies and analyzing methods. OWL2VOWL is the underlying backend for transforming ordinary defined ontologies in RDF or other formats into the specific JSON structures needed for WebVOWL.

VOWL WebVOWL OWL2VOWL

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VITA (Visual Analytics for Narrative Text)

The study of novels and the analysis of their plot, characters and other entities are time-consuming and complex tasks in literary science. The digitization of literature and the proliferation of electronic books provide new opportunities to support these tasks with visual abstractions. Methods from the fields of computational linguistics can be used to automatically extract entities and their relations from digitized novels, which can then be visualized to ease exploration and analysis tasks.

Info Demo