About me

Hi, I’m Ole

This is what you will find on all the conference websites

Ole Michaelis is the co-founder of SoCoded, a hackfest and web development conference in Hamburg. He’s a Software Engineer at DNSimple, helping build the Domainautomation management system of tomorrow. In his free time, he’s building slidr.io, a hazzle-free slide sharing platform. Ole is passionate about open source software, enjoys traveling, and loves Mexican food. He classifies himself as a ‘bad’ German as he dislikes beer and soccer – the traditional German past-times.

In a nutshell

I am Ole and coding is my passion. Fluent in a variety of languages and Frameworks (Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, node.js, Rails, express.js, connect and more) I never lost the urge to play around with new stuff, learn it and build amazing applications. Besides all the love I have for code, my top priority is the team I’m working with. I appreciate a strong culture and having a good time with my colleagues is very important to me.

Last but not least, I’m a German. I get things done.

Work history

Jimdo - Software Engineer

since 12/2012

As part of the Design Team I’m responsible for running, maintaining and enhancing the Jimdo template system. Which was the first service running outside the bigger Jimdo system. It’s a Rails api backed by a hand full of (micro) services written in various languages (ruby, node, elixir). Before I was part of the Template-, Independence- and Operations Team.

Digital Pioneers N.V. - Software Engineer

04/2012 - 12/2012

Projects

• Stuffle.it mobile flea market RESTful backend for iOS Client
• L.E.D.E. local event discovery engine
• App.me App discovery

Side projects

• Hubot for jabber/xmpp developer group chat (CoffeeScript) 1 2
• Scalarium plugin // Travis CI build notifications // spark plugin // github push/commit hook notifications
• Arduino for police lights if build failed and door buzzer HTTP api.

InnoGames GmbH - Lead Software Developer

07/2009 - 04/2012

Projects

• Tribalwars (>3.6 Million players registered)
• WestWars (1.1 Million players registered)

Side projects

• InnoGames GameJam #2
• TDD Trainings
• RTS Prototype Multiplayer tank game with node.js, socket.io, HTML5, and canvas.

K-LINE Praxiscomputer GmbH - IT Service Engineer

08/2006 - 06/2009

• Tier 1 Support

Other things I also know

• VCS (Git, SVN)
• Ticketing systems (GitHub Issues & Projects, Huboard, Jira, Kanbanery, Redmine)
• Agile methods (SCRUM, Kanban, and lots of stuff in between)
• CI Systems and tools (Travis CI, Shipcloud, Jenkins)
• Basic knowledge of search engines (Elasticsearch, solr, sphinx)
• Webservers (Apache, nginx, php-fpm, puma, unicorn, node)
• Shell and *nix (bash, zsh, Ubuntu, Debian)

Freetime / Part time projects

• slidr.io - Hassle free slidedeck hosting
  • In business since 2014
  • Completly built by myself
  • Rails 4 and Angular.js on Heroku
  • CD with Shipcloud
• So Coded Web Conference
  • Organized the conference with two friends.
  • Responsible for the programm and speaker happiness.
  • All stuff technical (WIFI, funny hacks, etc.) at the event.
• rautemusik.fm - Europes biggest online radio station
  • Complete rewrite of the website in 2011.
  • Self-written framework
  • Just within 4 month
• Organizing User Groups like phpughh.de, RUGHH and currently: hh.ex
• Elixir HPACK implementation
• Librato Metrics PHP Client
• Most installed Atom word-count plugin
• TrafficCop PHP Client
• ByteBuffer node.js-like buffers for PHP
• Vagrant setup for packagist.org
• Smaller contributions to Symfony2, and puma

Conferences

Attending (on a regular basis)

• JSConf.eu
• Elixir Conf
• FunConf III
• Nodecopter Berlin 2012

Talks given

Some highlights:

• FOSDEM
• Ruby Conf US
• Elixir Conf US
• Code Mash
• Joy of Coding
• Full Stack Fest (former Baruco)

Complete overview here

Honors and Awards

• Instructor for trainees regarding to german laws
• Software Developer - IHK Hamburg 2012
• IT Specialist - IHK Hamburg 2009

Education

• Middleschool 2004
• High School 2006
• 2 Weeks students exchange at RMU Chicago in 2010

Profiles

GitHub
Twitter
slidr.io
LinkedIn

Public Key:

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