Alexander Kraasch

As part of a consulting team at IBM, I contributed to a project for a prominent banking institution in Germany, focused on modernizing their legacy systems.

Project: Customer Record Management Our primary objective was to translate extensive Cobol codebases into efficient, maintainable Java applications, improving performance and aligning with modern technological standards. Cobol

• Java

• Git

• Spring

• Scrum

• JUnit

• Lombok

Contributed to the development of diverse software systems, including libraries, legacy application maintenance and the design of data interfaces and visualization tools, all aimed at improving operational efficiency and data accessibility in industrial environments. Project: Core Library for Piping and Instrumentation Diagram Software Designed and developed a core library for a piping and instrumentation diagram (P+ID) software application that enables users to validate and create instrumentation diagrams. TDD

• .NET/C-Sharp

• JavaScript

• Git

• VSCode Project: Maintenance and Enhancement of Legacy Android Applications Improved legacy Android applications used by customers in industrial environments for handheld factory scanning. Ensured operational continuity among long range of Android versions. Java

• Kotlin

• Android

• Git

• Android Studio Project: Development of Versatile REST API Engineered a reusable API that streamlined data transmission from handheld devices to various backends, improving data communication with back-end systems. Python

• Android

• REST

• Git/VSCode Project: Dashboards Design and Development Designed and developed interactive dashboards to visualize internal industry processes, providing real-time insights into production instruments and pipeline statuses. JavaScript

• Vue.js

• Git/VSCode

Hardening low-level software systems and researching new security features for Germany's most known banks. Working in dynamic scrum teams in a high focus environment. Project: Core Library Development Maintained and improved a secure low-level library critical for the development of hardened software systems, improving code quality. C++

• Gradle

• JetBrains

• Gitlab

• Jenkins Project: Tooling Prototyping & Development Prototyped and developed a high-level wrapper tool designed to facilitate code testing by incorporating various low-level utilities, facilitate the software verification process. Python 2+3

• C

• REPL