Sophia Zehethofer, MSc

Software and Cloud Platform Engineer with more than a decade of industry experience - based in Linz 🇦🇹

👩🏼‍💻 Engineering Experience

Cloud Platform Engineer @ ENGEL Austria GmbH (2023 - Present)

To deploy a new web customer portal e-connect, I helped to create a hub and spoke hybrid cloud environment using infrastructure as code from conception to release.
I maintained multiple AKS clusters and supported developers using them.
As a global administrator, I secured EntraID and kept developers productive by managing permissions.
We improved security by leveraging private endpoints in combination with a private DNS resolver.
Partners: Public Cloud Group, Cancom, Ebcont, Uni Software Plus, Bacher Systems
Technologies used: Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Flux, Splunk

Senior DevOps Engineer @ ENGEL Austria GmbH (2021 - 2022)

I provided development, deployment, and testing infrastructure for over 150 developers.
We migrated Jenkins to Azure Devops pipelines and SVN to GIT repositories.
I supported developers by maintaining and moving to an Artifactory server.
I improved and maintained legacy Jenkins servers by restructuring old pipelines to be able to support a master-slave architecture.
I leveraged Docker Buildkit to build and test our applications.
Technologies used: Azure DevOps, Docker, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarCube

Senior Frontend Engineer @ ENGEL Austria GmbH (2020 - 2021)

For a new generation of injection mold controllers, we spearheaded the development of a web-based version of the human machine interface.
To standardize the communication between machines and devices, we utilized and built OPC-UA compliant libraries.
We created a dynamic architecture using micro-frontends, module federation and reactive programming.
I built a monorepository with strict linting rules and automated tests to improve quality.
I supported junior developers by writing onboarding documentation, giving trainings, and reviewing pull requests.
With the help of our UX engineers, we implemented a living design system.
Partners: Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Tietoevry, Angular Architects
Technologies used: Angular, Typescript, RxJS, OPC-UA, Nrwl NX, Yarn, Storybook, Cypress, ESLint

Embedded Engineer @ ENGEL Austria GmbH (2018 - 2019)

I developed a new handheld terminal with a real-time operating system.
I implemented an RFID card reader that the handheld user can use to authenticate.
Partners: Sigmatek
Technologies used: Real-Time Linux, Bash, C++, CMake, Conan

Agile Coach @ ENGEL Austria GmbH (2016 - 2022)

We spearheaded a new team that integrated UX engineers and UX processes into the agile workflow.
I led a (too) big team of 15 people and helped them overcome silo thinking.
I moderated retrospectives and post-mortems for other teams.
I worked with external partners to improve company-wide processes and blockers.
Partners: Software Quality Lab, Centigrade
Methodologies used: Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, User-Centered Design

Software Engineer @ ENGEL Austria GmbH (Dec 2016 - 2018)

I helped to maintain a legacy codebase of over 8 million LOC.
I analyzed and improved the startup process of an Osgi application from 20 minutes to 10 minutes.
I refactored small and large portions of the codebase to make it testable and understandable to fix longstanding bugs.
Partners: Keba
Technologies used: Java, Osgi, EMF, ECF, Tycho, Maven

Test Engineer @ ENGEL Austria GmbH (Aug 2015 - Jun 2016)

I developed a test-framework for automated system tests on bare metal and virtualized hardware.
Automatically provisioned systems to be in a desired state to conduct tests.
Technologies used: Puppet, TestNG, Mockito, Oracle VirtualBox

🇩🇪 German: Native
🇺🇸 English: C1

Master of Science in Software Engineering
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg, Austria (2014 - 2016)

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg, Austria (2011 - 2014)

VET-Diploma in Electronics specializing in Technical Computer Science
Higher Federal Technical College - Steyr, Austria (2005 - 2010)