tpflug [tobi, human, engineer]
About Me
Hey, my name is Tobi! Nice to meet you đź‘‹
I live in South Germany together with my wonderful family and for the past 14+ years I have been working as a Software Engineer, Consultant and Engineering Manager in the IT industry.
Working With People, Teams And Individuals
My main interest is to work with people, both individually and on a team level to help identify problems, support with the solutions and to create value in a sustainable manner in a psychologically safe environment. I strive to be a servant leader and instead of cracking the whip to “make teams peform”, I create alignment and shared understanding around value and performance in the context of a team’s remit to help them deliver.
- Agile: I believe in “individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and apply this in my work.
- Hiring: I have gathered a lot of experience as Hiring Manager in different companies and care deeply about creating and conducting hiring processes and interviews that are actually effective by being fair, transparent and inclusive.
- On-boarding: During my time at HolidayCheck I co-created and lead the HolidayCheck Apprenticeship Program. On-boarding and continued mentoring of employees is as rewarding to the individual as it is beneficial to the company, and I wish more companies would embrace the apprenticeship model.
- Knowledge Sharing: Wherever I work, I try to foster a culture of knowledge sharing. This ranges from regular on-line pairing/programming or lightning talk sessions to organizing team off-site events that focus on a specific topic.
- Facilitation: I enjoy facilitating meetings and events for groups of 3-6 people (planning meetings, retrospectives, post-mortems etc) up to 70 people and beyond (Engineering off-site, Open Space Conferencing etc)
Things I Care About At Work
- A diverse and healthy working culture where toxic behavior isn’t tolerated.
- Egoless Programming
- Focusing on the bottleneck
- The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team
- Testing – because strong static typing is not good enough.
Tools & Technologies
Over the years I have worked with a wide range of tools and technologies:
- Functional Programming (Haskell and friends)
- Nix/NixOS & Immutable Infrastructure
- CI/CD (Docker, AWS, GCE, Jenkins, …)
- Frontend Development (JS)
- Microservices
- Lots of Shell Scripts
- Embedded C / Assembler
- GUI Toolkits (Qt/C++)
- Enterprise Java (Spring and friends)
What Else?
Some other things worth mentioning about myself
- I enjoy facilitating events (for example NixCon 2018).
- I am the organizer of BusConf - A FP oriented OpenSpace conference.
- I occasionally speak at conferences (haskellX 2019: Nix workshop).
- I’ve helped out in the haskellX program committee which was a really nice experience.
- Currently working towards my running my first marathon
- You can have a look at my CV if you want to.