About me

Gerke Reitz

About me

Builder by heart, engineer by trade. I love turning ideas into reality and thrive on building things that people genuinely enjoy using.

Engineering Values

  • check_circleMeasure twice, cut once
  • check_circleCraft matters, even when no one's looking

Technical Interests

Laravel & PHPNuxt & VueDevOps & CloudAI & LLMsAutomation & Tooling& so much more...

Experience

Software Engineer

May 2022 - Present

CBYTE Digital

  • Architected a microservices mesh serving 5M+ monthly active users.
  • Mentored junior developers and established CI/CD best practices.

Software Engineer Intern

January 2025 - July 2025

CBYTE Digital

  • Architected a microservices mesh serving 5M+ monthly active users.
  • Reduced API latency by 45% through strategic caching and Go optimization.

Software Engineer Intern

September 2023 - January 2024

CBYTE Digital

  • Architected a microservices mesh serving 5M+ monthly active users.
  • Reduced API latency by 45% through strategic caching and Go optimization.

Software Developer Intern

February 2021 - June 2021

Beech

  • Led the migration of a legacy monolithic app to a React-based frontend.
  • Mentored junior developers and established CI/CD best practices.

Software Developer Intern

August 2019 - January 2020

SwingBy

  • Developed and maintained the SwingBy project.
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Status

Currently turning ideas into reality at CBYTE Digital.

Have an idea? Let's talk.

I'm always open to discussing new challenges and collaborations.

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