Fabian Gruber

Staff Software Engineer:

I am a staff software engineer with over a decade of experience in software engineering and architecture. My expertise lies in designing, architecting, and maintaining cloud-native software, with a strong focus on both initial development and operational excellence.

Experience

NiCE Cognigy

Düsseldorf, Germany

July 2025 - now

Staff Software Engineer - IC5

Tackling Core Platform projects: Improve application observability, set latency and throughput targets, devise methods for archieving platform scalablity.
Assisting and mentoring teams on cross-team issues and design choices
Technical coordination with PO's and EM's

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.