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Andreas Vilinski

Senior Software Engineer & Architect

20+ years designing and delivering high-performance distributed systems, IoT platforms, and cloud-native microservice architectures. Deep expertise in C#, F#, Rust, and Scala — with a strong focus on observability, time-series data, and system reliability.

Fürth, Bayern, Germany

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Expertise

Technical Skills

Primary expertise Proficient

Languages

C# F# Rust Scala Python SQL Flux / InfluxQL

Databases & Time Series

InfluxDB VictoriaMetrics TimescaleDB ClickHouse PostgreSQL MongoDB MS SQL Server Oracle Prometheus

Messaging & Streaming

Apache Kafka EMQX / MQTT RabbitMQ NATS

Infrastructure & Observability

Kubernetes Grafana OpenTelemetry Docker Azure AKS k6 Akka / Proto.Actor

Spoken Languages

German — Native Russian — Native English — Proficient

Career

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer & Solution Architect

ifm Solutions GmbH

Nov 2018 – Present Fürth, Germany

Architected an IoT platform to ingest, transform, and derive actionable insights from sensor data
Introduced end-to-end observability across 20+ microservices, significantly reducing incident response times and improving developer productivity
Identified and resolved critical performance bottlenecks in .NET code, databases, and time-series workloads
Guided 3+ engineering teams on architecture, scalability, reliability, and code quality
Evaluated emerging technologies and delivered PoCs for time-series databases and messaging platforms

C# / F# / Rust Kubernetes OpenTelemetry InfluxDB ClickHouse Grafana k6 RabbitMQ EMQX Azure AKS

Senior IT Specialist

GfK Product Catalog

Aug 2015 – Oct 2018 Nürnberg, Germany

Led a team of 3–5 engineers migrating a data lake monolith to a microservice architecture
Championed Scala and functional programming, improving code maintainability and team productivity
Optimized MS SQL and MongoDB queries and data pipelines, achieving significant reductions in processing time
Owned server and cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and customer incident response

Scala Apache Kafka C# / F# MongoDB Oracle Docker Angular Apache Spark

Software Developer

Immowelt AG

Sep 2009 – Aug 2015 Nürnberg, Germany

Developed desktop CRM and real estate management software
Created import/export APIs for real estate portals across German-speaking countries
Built MS Office component integrations with the desktop application

C# WPF / WinForms MS SQL Server COM / MS Office

Background

Education

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Master of Science – Computer Science

2000 – 2007 · Erlangen, Germany

Distributed Systems, Databases, Compiler Architecture · Master thesis: Linux USB device driver in user space for SCSI error injection

Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU)

Master of Engineering

1994 – 1998 · Ufa, Russia

Automation and control of manufacturing plants and processes

Credentials

Certifications

CPRE-FL – Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering

IREB · Issued Dec 2025

Thought Leadership

Tech Talks

Actor Systems

Apr 2021

Property Based Testing with C# using FsCheck

Mar 2019

Programming in Scala

Feb 2017

Async Programming

Sep 2015