Felix Gessert
Chief Executive Officer at Baqend
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorFelix Gessert is a software entrepreneur and researcher based in Hamburg, Germany, and the Founder & CEO of Baqend. He leads Baqend's serverless backend and the Speed Kit, a performance tool that helps large e-commerce sites accelerate by 50–300%, improving user experience, conversions, and SEO for brands such as Decathlon, Galeria, BMW, and Orsay. With 12 years in the field, he combines startup leadership with deep research in distributed databases and caching, including PhD work at the University of Hamburg. He is an active open-source contributor, notably to a Java Bloom filter library with Redis backing, JSON support, tests, and synchronization enhancements. His academic background includes an MSc in Informatics with top grades and a PhD in Computer Science, reflecting a rare blend of theoretical rigor and practical, production-scale engineering.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
data-structures10
javas10
bloom-filter10
data-structure10
java10
unit-testing9
serialization7
data-serialization7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Baqend/Orestes-Bloomfilter
Dec 2012 - Oct 2017
Library of different Bloom filters in Java with optional Redis-backing, counting and many hashing options.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 103 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the core Java Bloom filter library, adding and modifying functionalities. Their work included implementing tests and restructuring the codebase. They introduced JSON conversion capabilities and enhanced the library with synchronization features.
hashingredisbloomfiltersoptions
Crystark/Orestes-Bloomfilter
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 6 months
hashingredisbloomfiltersoptions
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