Lorenz Postner Software Engineer

Lorenz Postner

Software Engineering Manager

blackpanda.com

Experience

August 2024 - Present

Software Engineering Manager

Blackpanda Ltd.

Hong Kong

Leading a team of 5 Engineers and 3 Operational Support staff. Key achievements include migrating Blackpanda's mission-critical web application from Heroku to AWS.

October 2022 - August 2024

Senior Data Engineer/Backend Engineer

Blackpanda Ltd.

Hong Kong

Designed and built an Attack Surface Management solution capable of detecting ~100 common vulnerabilities. Implemented a new data lake infrastructure, connecting 5+ sources into Databricks and streamlined digital forensics workflows with Shell/Python scripts.

May 2021 – October 2022

Senior Data Engineer

ExpressVPN/Network Guard

Hong Kong

Reduced pipeline latency from 24 hours to under 5 minutes using Terraform. Designed a data pipeline for new products and mentored junior engineers.

May 2020 – May 2021

Data Analyst

ExpressVPN/Network Guard

Hong Kong

Built dashboards for active user metrics and affiliate networks, improving monitoring and decision-making across teams.

May 2018 – May 2020

Business Intelligence Lead

Talkpush

Hong Kong

Implemented a client-facing dashboard solution and built a recommendation engine, improving candidate recommendations threefold.

Skills

Programming

Python (Advanced), SQL (Advanced), Terraform (Advanced), Ruby on Rails (Beginner), Java (Basic).

Cybersecurity

Pentesting basics, AWS Solutions Architect (Certified), Cloud computing (AWS, GCP).

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines, shell scripting, AWS Redshift, Lambda, S3, EMR, and more.

Cloud Computing

Extensive experience with AWS services, including EC2, ECS, Redshift, Kinesis, S3, CloudFormation, and Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code.

Education

2014 – 2018

International Business Management/Finance

Berlin School of Economics and Law

Berlin, Germany

Graduated with 3.8 GPA.

2016

Semester Abroad: International Studies

Chengdu University

Chengdu, China

Focused on international business and finance.

2017

Semester Abroad: Finance & Chinese

Shanghai University

Shanghai, China

Specialized in Mandarin Chinese, financial modeling and analysis.

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