Hi there, welcome to my page

I'm Lucas Gering, a software developer from Leipzig, Germany, with over a decade of experience in building web-based enterprise software. I specialise in the B2B retail space, primarily working in the construction and automotive industries. I'm one of those people who tackles "feared" legacy systems on a daily basis, and I can tell you: It's not that horrible. Ok that could just be Stockholm syndrome 

So what does that mean? I mostly do backend development in Java using either the Micronaut or Spring framework but I also routinely use C#, Rust and Python.

I strongly believe in owning the our software from start to finish. So in recent years I heavily worked my way into deploying our applications and handling the cloud and devops side. In almost all my projects our development team handles support and daily operations. That made me develop a strong appreciation for good monitoring and tracing solutions. On my very first project we rolled out Dynatrace and that set a pretty high bar for everything I did afterwards.

I also like to dip my feet into developing frontends from time to time. My weapon of choice is React, Typescript running on NextJS. Because I suck at styling I need my TailwindCSS and leave the rest to my frontend coworkers.