Full stack and infrastructure
Full stack engineer at BII GmbH. I build web applications and run the Linux infrastructure they depend on.
Hey, I'm Elias Goebel. I build web applications from backend to frontend, and I run the Linux infrastructure they depend on. The degree behind it is Games Engineering, which is where the computer graphics and interactive systems come from. I'm mostly self taught, and at my best in a team that shares a human standard of communication.
German is my native language. English is on C2 level.
All four layers, usually on the same project. The point is not that I specialise in one of them, but that I can work across all of them.
The part people actually use, including 3D in the browser when the product calls for it.
The application behind it, and the APIs that move data across.
Schemas that hold up, and queries that stay quick as the tables grow.
The machines all of it runs on, how it gets deployed, and the private network around it.
Off the clock the same skills point at games, hardware, and private projects.
Hover or tap an entry for the detail.
2022-now
Work2022-now
BII GmbH, Dresden
React, TypeScript, C#, Rust and Three.js on the product side. Linux servers, WireGuard VPNs, Ansible, Docker and Podman underneath, plus the CI/CD that ships it. I built the reusable security pipeline the company repository runs on, and I am the person who gets called when something in between breaks.
2020-2025
Education2020-2025
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Software engineering, algorithms, computer graphics, artificial intelligence and interactive systems, with complex team projects in the Game Labs. Thesis: a GPT-based, ontology-based serious game analysis assistant, graded 1.0. Final grade 2.0, earned while working at BII for the last two and a half years of it.German university grades run from 1.0, the best, down to 5.0, which means failed.
2020
Work2020
Traco, Bad Langensalza
A year of physical work between school and university, cutting and finishing stone. It taught me to be patient, and that a good result is worth the time it takes to get there. It also helped me finance my university studies.
2019
Work2019
Mount Wolfe Farm, Ontario, Canada
Five months in an entirely English-speaking place: harvest and processing, customer conversations, and selling produce at local markets. This is where my English went to C2.
2017
Work2017
Ruhlamat Automated Technologies, Marksuhl
Now MackSmaTec GmbH.
An internship writing C# for automated production systems. The first time I worked inside a software team instead of on my own.
2015
Work2015
MüCom Systeme GmbH, Mühlhausen
An internship building and repairing desktop PCs and laptops, and my first go at IT support for real customers.
2011-2019
Education2011-2019
Salza-Gymnasium, Bad Langensalza
Finished in 2019 with a final grade of 2.2.German school grades run from 1.0, the best, down to 6.0, which means failed.
Selected work
I've had two laptops with cameras in them, and a self-hosted Home Assistant that already ran the lights and the blinds. Now, my home sends me a message when someone is in it. Four steps from a dead webcam to my phone.
Both came out of laptop lids that were never going back into service. The camera modules were still fine.
I soldered two old USB-A connectors into each camera module by hand, which turns a bare ribbon camera into something usable for every computer.
The camera feeds land in the Home Assistant instance I already self-host, next to the lights, the blinds and whether anyone is home.
Motion in a room that should be empty, and a self-written Telegram bot that sends a message to my phone. The lights turn on automatically as well, so I can see what is going on before I get there.
Starting with a solo jump-and-run in Unity across 2018 and 2019, a Tetris clone built with a friend, and a game jam after that. Ending in a thesis about a GPT-based AI assistant that analyses serious games against a scientific ontology, graded 1.0.
Unity, C#, C++, OpenGL
Email is the fastest way to reach me.