Jörg Polakowski

oltbaba@googlemail.com

Objectives: Empower people. Embrace change. Eliminate waste.

Strong experience with bootstrapping, troubleshooting, improving IT environments. Practitioner, coach for lean and agile methods.

Experience

Freelancer

Nov 2012 - present (ongoing ...)

I do consulting and development for Mac / iOS, mobile web applications (native or web-apps) and Rails solutions.

Up to date skill matrix can be found on Xing

  • Aug 2020 ongoing... (Frankfurt)

    Bosch ebike Systems / COBI.Bike: iPhone App - App-Store link

    Sharing of detailled information currently restricted by NDA.

  • Feb 2019 - July 2020 (18 months, Frankfurt)

    COBI.Bike: iPhone App - App-Store link

    Integration of the COBI iOS app in the Bosch ecosystem. User facing migration to Bosch-ID (OpenID connect) user registration and authentication.

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 (5 months, Frankfurt)

    YUNAR: iPhone App - App-Store link

    Development of iOS app in Swift4. Noteworthy: RxSwift + MVVM + Coordinator

  • May 2018 - July 2018 (3 months, Frankfurt)

    COBI.bike: iPhone App - App-Store link

    Integration of Mapbox for all map related aspects. swift4, Objc and JS

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2018 (4 months, Berlin)

    adidas: iPhone App (in house app)

    Development of iOS app in Swift4. API server communication and persistence with Realm.

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 (12 months, Munich)

    Helvetia Versicherungen: iOS / Android App

    Role: Tech Lead

    Development of a universal iOS app (iPhone & iPad) plus Android app in Swift4. Rails5 API backend.

  • Oct 2016 - Dec 2016 (3 months, Frankfurt)

    COBI GmbH: iPhone App - App-Store link

    Feature development in the COBI iOS app (Objective-c & Swift).

  • Feb 2016 - June 2016 (5 months, Munich)

    Continental AG: iPhone App (enterprise app)

  • October 2015 - Sept 2016 (12 months, Munich)

    InterNations iPhone App - App-Store link

  • June 2015 - Dez 2015 (7 months, Berlin)

    Coca-Cola: Watch-App (enterprise app)

  • May 2014 - Sept 2016 (24+ months, Dresden)

    LOVOO: iPhone / iPad App - App-Store link

  • Jan 2014 - April 2014 (4 months, Berlin)

    TunedIn: iPhone / iPad App - App-Store link

  • Mar 2013 - Sept 2013 (7 months, Munich)

    Termine24: iPhone / iPad Apps for Customers and Merchants - App-Store link

  • Jan 2013 (1 month, Berlin)

    Webraumfahrer: iPad App for Hotel library - App-Store link

  • Nov 2012 - Dec 2012 (2 months, Berlin)

    AKQA: Technical Delivery Manager for the website relaunch of Audi USA.

CTO at relevantec

Dec 2011 - Nov 2012 (1 year)

I joined relevantec, because direktzu® is on the verge to its next evolutionary step as a tool for organizational development - particularly within larger companies and organizations. Working with and leading the company's agile IT team was challenging.

Analyzed and reviewed technologies for a second product pipeline. Kicked off product development for second product in the company's pipeline.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript, AngularJS, Javascript and a bunch of Ruby gems.

Products: direktzu® SaaS product, iBack.to instant feedback

Founder & CTO at mobile melting

Apr 2009 - Nov 2011 (2 years, 8 months)

Developed the technical environment to let creative professionals create and deliver walk-in entertainment products for smartphones. Build the platform behind storytude.com, which caters smartphone optimized multimedia-entertainment content. Provide multimedia content and the platform delivers it as an entertainment product to the mobile client.

Founded the company, planned and administered software development from day one.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, iOS (Objective-C), Android (Java), API development, encoding & delivery of multimedia content optimized for smartphones, in-app-purchases

Products: storytude, multiple iOS apps

Software Engineer at namics

Apr 2008 - Nov 2008 (8 months)

Participated in portal relaunch of DAB bank, a leader in online banking and security trading.

Integrated the mobile TAN authentication process into DAB bank's web portal.

Technologies: Sun ONE Application Server 8.2, Spring Framework, Acegi aka Spring Security, Hibernate, JDBC, EJB, Javascript, JSP, Oracle 10g, Maven, Solaris, Linux.

IT Consultant at MaibornWolff

Mar 2006 - Mar 2008 (2 years, 1 month)

Mainly worked for larger clients as IT-Consultant. Main project was for Deutsche Post in an international environment (Bonn, Atlanta).

Technologies: Groovy, Java, JSP, Spring, Oracle

Founder & CTO at iSoftworks

Apr 2006 - Dec 2008 (2 years, 9 months)

Created the software foundation to enable private pilots to prepare for flight training in CVFR. Provided a rich desktop application in Java.

The project started as a university project and eventually made it out on the market.

Technologies: Java, Swing, PHP, MySQL

Software Engineer at Avid Technology

Mar 2005 - Dec 2005 (10 months)

Provided an Eclipse version control plugin to integrate NXN's alienbrain VC-system into the Eclipse IDE. Inspiring environment to work in, due to the aquisition of nxn by Avid (www.avid.com) and the following transition.

Technologies: Java, Eclipse Platform, Eclipse JDT

Skills & Expertise
  • Swift / Objective-C
  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • React & React native
  • Javascript
  • NoSQL
  • Mobile Applications
  • iOS Development
Languages
  • German - native
  • English - fluent in word and speech