Ivan Ortolan
Senior Lead Software Engineer at ZEISS Group
Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIvan Ortolan is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing high-performance, cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional teams across automotive, fintech and Web3 sectors. Currently architecting ZEISS’s part search and management portal, he combines hands-on implementation with requirement engineering and external-system integrations. His background includes building an API gateway handling over a billion daily requests, low-latency rate limiters in Go, and consolidating financial services platforms with secure Kotlin backends. A pragmatic solution architect passionate about functional programming and machine learning, he repeatedly bridges full‑stack delivery, DevOps and IaC to turn complex legacy landscapes into scalable microservices. Based in Esslingen, Germany, he also brings a developer-focused mindset to developer portals, streaming platforms and event-driven architectures—often surfacing elegant, performance-driven tradeoffs not obvious from high-level specs.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technologies, Bachelor's degree Information Technologies at Università degli Studi di PadovaHigh School Informatics, High School Informatics at I.T.I.S E.Barsanti
English, Croatian, Italian, German
Stackoverflow
402reputation
21kreached
15answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
http-client10
polling10
couchdb10
nodejs10
i310
window-manager10
firebase10
ionic10
coc-nvim10
swift10
kubernetes10
jvm10
scala10
apache-kafka10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
opensimgear/opensimgear.github.io
Apr 2024 - May 2026
The OpenSimGear website
Contributions:13 PRs, 71 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
ntrp/kafka-security-manager
Feb 2020 - Oct 2023
Manage your Kafka ACL at scale
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
scalekafka-aclbullkafkaacl
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.