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Location: Hamburg, Germany

Remote: Yes! Would love to give it a try.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Seasoned Software Engineering Manager. Java. JVM. Ruby on Rails. Vue.

Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/janprill - Full CV on email request

Side hustle: https://janprill.com

Email: [email protected]

I am an entrepreneurial, competitive software engineering manager and coder.

I take responsibility and take the initiative in the team. Human, respectful and with the clear conscience of a person who gives his best, I encourage and maintain the desire to perform.

I can stand back and listen. I consider it important to communicate crystal clear. I am proud of my demonstrable success in numerous demanding projects.

I have many years of domain knowledge acquired in practice in the field of Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Product Information Management (PIM), especially in food retailing.

Especially interested in freelance and contracting work but open for all opportunities.


As a well earning IT professional you should be able to apply for the so called blue card. http://www.bluecard-eu.de/


bluecard is a very easy way to permanent residency in 1-2 years, but only if you studied in Germany or Europe.


The Blue Card allows you got get permanent residency in 21 months if you speak basic German (B1) regardless of where you studied. And in any case you'll still get permanent residency after 33 months with A1 German


The total tax burden for well-earned singles is rather roughly. 50%. After you can deduct some lump sums from your tax, we expect 40% for the tax. However, since you also have an employee's share of the health insurance, you should stay at 50% for the time being.

A small apartment, or a room is around 400 EUR warm if you have little claim to location and equipment. Find out more at immonet. de. The user interface is simple and even if you don't know German, you should be able to use it.

The cost of living for a geek who lives sparingly would be 400 EUR per month. Insurance and miscellaneous costs 150 EUR.

Leaves you with 5000 * 0,5 - 400 - 400 - 400 - 150 = 1550 EUR should be doable as a monthly saving. With a buffer, a monthly saving of 1400 EUR should be possible.

60000 EUR annual salary is ok for the beginning. If you perform well, you should earn a six-digit salary as a Senior Software Engineer, especially in Hamburg, Munich and Düsseldorf. To do this, however, you would have to set the right course at your first job in Germany and not start with less than 75,000.


Is a six-digit salary for a senior software engineer a realistic expectation? I thought that was only common in SV and NY.


I don’t know a single non team lead SWE in Germany earning six digits. And most find it quite difficult to go higher 60k


While people seem to mostly tinker with the name in the comments I'd like to say that this looks like a really interesting project!

Would you mind to give us a little more background with regards to how this has been initiated, what your motivation was to write something new?

Given that you have an interesting vita (https://www.linkedin.com/in/haifengli) and a lot of people are interested in the graph database space I'd assume that people what be interested in your take on: The graph landscape, why for example haven't you joined the effort of Neo4j, ArangoDB, Titan and the likes. Is Unicorn already older than these systems? Why have you decided to open source now? Why is this linking to a fork originating at ADP while you are obviously a member of ADP and what is ADP about? Questions over questions which IMHO should be answered so that people like myself, who are impressed by your work, get a better chance where this massive effort comes from to better estimate how long this is going to stay around.

However: Thanks for open sourcing, posting and giving us a chance to play around with this...


Ok, doing a little research about ADP I realize that this is quite a large company. Sorry, I didn't knew it (am from Germany). But this would make it even more interesting how unicorn is used at ADP and if this already is a reference with regards to the scale of larger installations of Unicorn.


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