Patrik Fuhrmann Head of Platform Engineering

At Dealroom.co, my leadership in engineering teams has been pivotal in evolving our technical roadmap and architecture. Our transition from a monolithic system to microservices, leveraging Kubernetes and Go, has empowered us to scale rapidly, manifesting in a robust dependency management framework that significantly enhanced our security posture.

In collaboration with product owners and cross-functional squads, we've cultivated an environment of continuous delivery that is pivotal for our business growth. My technical acumen has been instrumental in managing DevOps, driving a marked increase in data handling and API traffic, and mentoring teams in cutting-edge technologies that underpin our success.

Public Clouds: GCP, AWS
Common tools: Containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Serverless, Symfony / Laravel, React / Vue.js, Pulumi, Crossplane
Main languages: Go, JavaScript, PHP
Databases: MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, RabbitMQ
Methodologies: Agile (Scrum or Kanban), CI / CD, TDD (Test-Driven Development), Microservices, Pair programming
APIs: REST, gRPC/Protobuf, Pub/Sub, GraphQL

Dealroom.co | Amsterdam, NL

March 2025 - Present

Head of Platform Engineering

• Establishing structured team processes across the organization to reduce time-to-deployment and empower developers
• Designing and implementing the initial stages of the internal developer platform (IDP), focusing on accelerating innovation through standardized tooling
• Driving the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Crossplane and ArgoCD, resulting in faster and more reliable infrastructure deployments

August 2021 - February 2025

Lead Software Engineer

• Hiring, coaching and directly managing a team of 6 software engineers (Go/Golang, PHP)
• Working on the technical roadmap with the product owners and collaborating with other engineering and data squads to enable quick and continuous delivery of a business value
• Architecture decisions for splitting the monolith into microservices using Kubernetes, custom Helm charts, Istio, gRPC, Protobuf and Pub/Sub, which allowed the company to rapidly scale the business

June 2019 — July 2021

Senior Software Engineer

• Started as a senior PHP developer, working on a vast MySQL-based monolith in an Agile team
• Proposed, planned and executed a complete rebuild of infrastructure, from the few boxes running in AWS EC2 to a fully distributed system running on GKE. It proved to be crucial for increasing both data size and API traffic by an order of magnitude in the following years.
• Introducing and training team members to many new technologies such as Go, Kubernetes, Helm, RabbitMQ and more

SO Connect | Amsterdam, NL

February 2018 — May 2019

Full Stack Engineer

• Part of Agile (Scrum) team working on Docker-based PHP7 and Node.js microservices
• Maintaining core codebase based on the FuelPHP and Zend frameworks
• Successfully developed brand-new marketing product using React / Redux frontend and Laravel Lumen backend, which within a few months became the company’s most popular SaaS offering
• Leading the transition from on-metal deployments to Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Setting up the serverless framework on AWS with ES2018 functions, webpack and Jest TDD

Cloudflare | London, UK

October 2016 — January 2018

Web Engineer

• The web security company covered roughly 10% of internet traffic at the time
• Creating and maintaining PHP APIs with a lot of traffic (1 billion+ req/month)
• Part of the early discussions and technical tweaks to introduce an upgrade to PHP7
• Developed WebP API integration with the Cloudflare's edge systems
• Various improvements to the internal “page rules” engine
• Working with many technologies such as Docker, Kyoto Tycoon, Redis, etc.
• Server-side work on the scaling of the PostgreSQL database (primary/replica setup)

babylon health | London, UK

November 2015 — October 2016

Technical Lead

• Largest doctor-on-demand startup in the UK
• Heading technical efforts of the Predictive Analytics team
• Designed and fully implemented the separation of a monolithic codebase to multiple microservices which allowed for a better mobile apps experience for the end user
• Responsible for the hiring of new engineers i.e., PHP, Python and data scientists
• Creating development standards and best practices followed across the team
• Building out the architecture to support the delivery of the AI Predictive Analytics platforms

February 2015 — November 2015

Lead PHP Developer

• Leading the team of PHP engineers across multiple products
• Hiring, on-boarding and mentoring engineers to ensure quality and timely delivery
• Part of the Health Intelligence team responsible for creating AI-based products
• Successfully implemented ruling algorithm/engine for the medical triage
• Developing and managing APIs used by millions of iOS and Android devices

LendInvest | London, UK

March 2014 — January 2015

Senior PHP Developer (Symfony)

• LendInvest is the leading online lender for short-term property finance
• Transforming legacy code from CodeIgniter to a Symfony2 framework
• Greenfield project to rewrite P2P lending platform, both borrower and investor portals
• Creating BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) testing suite using Behat 3
• Integration of internal system with Amazon S3 storage service
• Part of the bigger agile team, using lightweight Scrum methodology and some practices from XP
• Redeveloped systems were successfully launched in December 2014 which enabled the company to eventually lower the minimum investment amount to £1,000

entrago | London, UK

January 2013 - December 2013

Senior Software Engineer

• Early-stage startup, celebrity channels for fans
• Rewriting API from Node.js to PHP (Laravel 4.2)
• Maintaining CMS built on top of Node.js (Hatch.js framework)
• Working with a sizable Redis database (~100+ GB)
• Enhancing an analytics system based on the PHP Zend Framework 2 with Predis
• Development done under agile environment (Kanban)

Primrose | Reading, UK

December 2011 – September 2012

PHP Developer

• One of the largest UK online gardening retailers
• Maintained multiple eCommerce systems as part of the Agile team (Scrum)
• Finding bottlenecks in performance by profiling/debugging PHP code (Xdebug, KCacheGrind) and MySQL queries. As a result, we went from 1600+ SQL queries on each page to less than 400 per page
• Created a reporting back-end system used for monitoring the buyer accounts
• Developed custom payment plugin (SOAP) which was successfully deployed on more than dozens of E-Shops around Europe (Docdata Payments)

University of Greenwich, London

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Software Engineering

1st Class Honours