Fabian Gruber
Fabian Gruber
Principal Software / Platform Engineer:

I am a principal software engineer with more than a decade in software engineering. I have very strong experise in writing and maintaining cloud-native software, both from the software design and architecture and the cloud operational perspective.

Experience
Cognigy
Düsseldorf, Germany
July 2025 - now
Staff Software Engineer - IC5
Appwrite
Cologne, Germany
September 2024 - July 2025
Platform Engineer
  • Leveling up Appwrites cloud offering, allowing it to scale to enterprise markets, improve its reliability and making sure it dynamically scales based on usage.
ESL FACEIT Group
Cologne, Germany
September 2022 - September 2024
Principal Software Engineer
  • Responsible for the overall technology vision, infrastructure design and technical road-map.
  • Technical coordination between EFG's various engineering and infrastructure operation teams.
  • Maintaining EFG's tech stack in the cloud, building cloud-native software to power and enable all engineering teams.
ESL Gaming
Cologne, Germany
September 2020 - September 2022
Lead software architect - ESL Engineering
Responsible for ESL's identity and authentication platform, infrastructure design and road-map.
ESL Gaming / Turtle eSports Technology
Cologne, Germany
April 2018 - September 2020
Core-Services team lead / Senior Software Engineer
Responsible for ESL's identity and authentication platform, infrastructure design and road-map.
ESL Gaming / Turtle eSports Technology
Cologne, Germany
September 2014 - April 2018
Software engineer
Implementing new tournament systems, coordination with game developers to integrate their games into the ESL Play platform.
Mise en Place
Aachen, Germany
September 2012 - September 2014
Job coach hospitality service
Student job as a waiter for high quality hotels and caterings.
Education
FH Aachen
Aachen, Germany
September 2014 - September 2019
Computer Science - B.sc.
Gymnasium Würselen
Würselen, Germany
September 2003 - July 2012
Abitur
(english: higher education entrance qualification (A-levels))