Portfolio — 2026

Sascha Scheid

Software Engineer

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I'm happiest in the messy middle, turning a vague problem into software people actually want to use. A formal background in design taught me to start with the human; engineering lets me build it.

01 — About

Sascha Scheid

About Me

I studied media and computer science, so design and engineering have never felt like separate things to me. I'm a software engineer by craft, most at home in backend and distributed systems. But what really pulls me in is the problem itself: the vague, half-shaped kind nobody has figured out yet.

My formal background in design changed how I build. I start from the people who'll use the thing, not the tools I'll use to make it. On every team I've been on, that user-centric instinct is what set my work apart. It's the difference between software that compiles and software that fits.

I'm also a co-owner: years after first joining a startup as a working student, I bought a stake and became one of its managing partners. Carrying real responsibility for the business taught me to lead, to navigate ambiguity, and to make the trade-offs that actually ship. That's the mindset of someone who owns the outcome, not just the ticket.

The interesting part isn't the code. It's the problem nobody has shaped yet.

02 — Skills

Skills &
Competencies

01

Backend & Distributed Systems

Designing services that stay reliable as they grow: clear boundaries, sound architecture, and the unglamorous robustness that keeps systems standing under real-world load.

02

Full-Stack Product Delivery

Taking an idea from vague to shipped, front to back. I'm comfortable owning the whole path and making the calls between user needs, technical reality, and what genuinely has to ship this week.

03

Platform & Framework Engineering

Building the reusable foundations other developers build on: the tools, frameworks, and patterns that make a whole team faster. Leverage over repetition.

04

User-Centric Engineering

My design background, applied to code. I start from the person using the software and sweat the interaction details most backends never consider, because that's usually where good and great diverge.

05

Ownership & Problem Framing

The owner's reflex: framing the real problem before solving the wrong one, navigating ambiguity, and carrying a thing all the way to done. I'm motivated by the solution itself, not the busywork around it.

03 — Experience

Work Experience

02.2026 — now

Managing Partner

planfeuer GmbH

Concurrent with full-time role

  • At planfeuer GmbH, we turn traditional sweepstakes and promotional competitions into digital experiences brands can run at scale. As one of two managing partners, I own the technology and product direction, deciding what we build, why, and how it holds up as it grows. It's a role with real skin in the game: I'm accountable not only for the engineering, but for the product strategy and the commercial calls behind it. Sitting that close to both sides is the clearest reminder of why I build the way I do. It comes back to the people and the outcome on the other end, not the stack.

04.2023 — now

Software Engineer

AEB SE

Framework unit lead since 06.2026

  • I joined as an intern, stayed through my thesis as a working student, and have been full-time since 2024. I design and build an internal framework other teams use to ship distributed services. As our large team split into focused units, I took the lead on it, now effectively owning its direction. My day-to-day still centres on the data layer: how information is managed, separated, and kept trustworthy across services. Earlier on, I built a monitoring service that caught type mapping explosions across large search clusters before they could reach production.

01.2021 — 03.2023

Software Engineer

planfeuer GmbH

Working Student

  • I helped grow a platform for digital competitions, shipping features, introducing automated testing and deployments, and taking on the hardest part myself: designing and building the fraud detection that kept it fair.

04 — Contact

Get In
Touch

Working on something vague and a little daunting? That's my favourite kind of conversation. Tell me about it.

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