Profile
I have been writing code ever since I first saw an 8-bit home computer in 6th grade (1985). Today I mainly do full-stack web development, but also like writing apps for Mac and Linux. My favorite languages are Python, Go, Swift, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
I enjoy explaining technical concepts to non-geeks and showing what's going on under the hood.
In my free time I visit cool museums, hone my photography, and lose against my kids in video games.
Skills
- AI
- Agentic engineering and automation, frontier and open-weight models
- Languages
- Python, Go, Swift, TypeScript/JavaScript
- Frameworks
- Django/Flask/FastAPI, Node.js, React, Next.js, SwiftUI
- Cloud
- AWS, GCP, Linode
- Databases
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- Tooling
- Git/GitHub, DX/DevOps, CI/CD
Experience
Senior Full-Stack Developer at GovRecover Oct 2025 - present
GovRecover helps people recover unclaimed property - funds owed to them but held by state governments (forgotten bank accounts, uncashed checks, insurance payouts, and similar) - by locating claims and handling the filing process to return that money to its rightful owners.
- Added custom tooling and DX improvements for isolated agentic cloud dev workflows using frontier and open-weight models
- Full ownership of new services in mono-repo, e.g. address completion & validation, DocuSign integration adapter
- 8 times faster property data transform (ETL) after rewrite to Rust (also tested Go and Zig)
Some of my clients:
Finaware finaware.us
- SaaS platform with Python and NestJS backends to help investigate financial crimes
- Multiple LLM and vision AI models process bank statement PDFs into structured data
Internal ETA Dashboard for Coverland coverland.com
- Used no-code/low-code (Retool/Supabase) to quickly stand up an inventory-tracking dashboard
- Integrated with existing PostgreSQL databases, SKULabs, and Excel spreadsheets
Senior Backend Developer at Afloat 2023 - 2024
Afloat is a local gifting app (B2C) and a Shopify marketplace for local businesses (B2B).
- New REST API and Shopify integration cut manual steps in half
- Reduced sign-up steps for new businesses by 80%
- Reused 50-60% of existing custom Go backend framework
- Added Swagger UI and endpoint documentation (zero API docs existed)
- Sentry instrumentation reduced log output by 60%
Senior Full-Stack Developer, Material (formerly LRW) 2018 - 2023
Transformed the Yamaha Motor website to an AWS backend with a Next.js (React) frontend:
- Selected UI component and styling framework to speed up initial frontend development
- Translated Figma designs into React Storybook to keep fast iterations going
- Storybook doubled as living design/styling documentation to keep branding consistent
- Storybook cut time from design to implemented UI change by 50%
- Created REST API endpoints and backend integrations in a Django backend (Python)
- Reduced deployment times for AWS infrastructure
Maintained the Touchpoint Dashboard project acquired from Strativity:
- Django web app with React frontend hosted on AWS
- Maintained the platform until the decision to sunset the product
- Planned and executed the shutdown of 100% of the AWS infrastructure
- Executed deletion after legal decided to discard 100% of user data
More than 33 years of experience! See linkedin.com/in/guido-schlabitz for more.
Education
Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 1992 to 1995
