Felix Gessert
Founder & CEO at Baqend
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolFelix Gessert is a founder and CEO with 13 years of experience building high-performance web infrastructure and distributed systems from research prototypes to production at scale. As CEO of Baqend he leads development of Speed Kit, a serverless backend that accelerates major e-commerce sites like BMW, Decathlon and Galeria by 50–300%, improving UX, conversions and SEO. His background includes a PhD-level focus on distributed databases and caching from the University of Hamburg and a history of research and scholarship roles that inform Baqend’s technical direction. Felix remains a hands-on engineer and open-source contributor—his work on a Java Bloom filter library shows attention to efficient data structures, testing, and interoperability with systems like Redis. Based in Hamburg, he combines academic rigor with commercial product leadership and scaling experience across large customer deployments. He’s actively hiring and open to partnerships with companies seeking dramatic reductions in page load times.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of HamburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik at Uni Hamburg
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
data-structures10
javas10
bloom-filter10
data-structure10
java10
unit-testing9
serialization7
data-serialization7
caching6
websocket6
nginx6
load-balancing6
hash6
c10k6
scalability6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Baqend/Orestes-Bloomfilter
Dec 2012 - Oct 2017
Library of different Bloom filters in Java with optional Redis-backing, counting and many hashing options.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 103 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the core Java Bloom filter library, adding and modifying functionalities. Their work included implementing tests and restructuring the codebase. They introduced JSON conversion capabilities and enhanced the library with synchronization features.
bloom-filterjavaredis
Crystark/Orestes-Bloomfilter
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
Library of different Bloom filters in Java with optional Redis-backing, counting and many hashing options.
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 6 months
bloom-filterjavaredis
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