👋 Hi, I’m Maximilian Ruta aka Deltachaos

I’m an experienced backend developer with a passion for great software architecture and crafting scalable, efficient systems. My expertise spans ERP process development, microservice architectures, and high-performance e-commerce platforms.

🚀 What I Do

• Primarily working with Symfony, PHP, Vue.js, React, Python, and Java
• Have worked with less widely adopted technologies like Haxe, Pascal, and Lua
• Architecting and developing cloud-native applications with Kubernetes, AWS and Cloudflare

🌟 Major Projects & Companies

• ARD – Working on video-on-demand and live streaming delivery and backend services for the ARD online platforms.
• Alliance 90/The Greens – Built majority of the digital conference platform used for the first fully digital party conference in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the tagesschau report.
• Abstimmungsgrün - Initial creator of Abstimmungsgrün, a software to plan and held voting sessions in real time.
• Commerzbank – Designed and implemented a microservice-based ticket management system with Symfony, integrating complex infrastructure provisioning.
• Lekkerland – Worked on the modernization of a B2B e-commerce platform, migrating from OXID to a Kubernetes-based microservice architecture.

🛠️ Small Projects

• blingtron.app – A Discord bot for managing World of Warcraft Guilds.
• deltachess – A fully featured chess game as addon for World of Warcraft.
• microapi – A zero dependencies minimalistic Python framework to support FaaS development.
• tretboot – A Kubernetes project for GitOps bootstrapping, simplifying Rancher installation in K3s.
• kentledge – A KISS solution to create and restore backups of Kubernetes Persistent Volumes.
• chef-lua – A Lua-based Chef client for managing OpenWRT routers.

🌱 Open Source Contributions

• Doctrine ORM & DBAL
• Symfony
• Nextcloud Groupfolders

🤝 Co-Founder

I’m also a co-founder of verdigado, an web agency focused on solidarity, sustainability, and innovation that powers a lot of IT systems for Alliance 90/The Greens. Verdigado offers green web hosting, collaboration tools, and custom software development.

💌 Get in Touch

• 📍 Cologne, Germany
• ✉️ mr@deltachaos.de
• 🌐 https://www.deltachaos.de/