Thorsten Essig
Senior Software Developer at Omnevo
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThorsten Essig is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building backend services for large e-commerce and marketplace platforms, currently focused on Go-based systems at Omnevo/ AOE. He began in the PHP and Magento ecosystem and famously migrated a PHP team to Go in 2017, learning the language under pressure and then driving its adoption across projects. His recent work centers on aviation industry marketplaces and scalable e-commerce integrations, where he combines pragmatic engineering with platform-level thinking. Thorsten contributes to the Flamingo open-source framework and invests in developer training, signaling a strong emphasis on knowledge sharing and team enablement. Based in Mainz with a Diplom in Mathematics from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, he brings analytical rigor to system design and a history of evolving tech stacks to meet real business needs.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Mathematics, Diplom, Mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Github Skills (73)
flamingo10
core-library10
clean-architecture10
golang10
dependency-injection10
application-framework10
modularization10
maintainability10
go10
ecommerce10
commerce10
graphql10
csrf-protection10
web-framework10
http-response9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
i-love-flamingo/opentelemetry
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
Telemetry module for flamingo to enable effective observability
Contributions:16 reviews, 28 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 11 months
observabilitytelemetry
i-love-flamingo/csrf
Jan 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:16 reviews, 20 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years 5 months
csrf-protectionflamingo-modulegolang
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