Pascal Clanget

Senior Fullstack Engineer · AI & Automation
Returning to Germany shortly — open to relocation nationwide · remote-proven · interviews anytime via video
Pascal Clanget
Email pascla@mailbox.org LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/pascal-clanget GitHub github.com/Gh05d Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com/users/7490871

Profile

Senior fullstack engineer with over 9 years of development experience, including 2.5 years as a team lead, plus a founder chapter backed by the German EXIST grant. For the past two years: intensive training focused on AI engineering — applied in my own projects: multi-agent workflows, LLM pipelines running 24/7, self-hosted infrastructure. 6 published apps (iOS/Android), active open-source projects with thousands of users.

Professional Experience

Independent Software Engineer — Freelance, Open Source & AI Training
Aug 2025 – present
Deliberate hybrid of sabbatical and freelance work — remote from Southeast Asia.
  • Freelance: real-estate website dhome88 — Next.js 15 (App Router), 6 locales (next-intl), Google Sheets backend as a low-cost CMS
  • AI content pipeline (n8n, self-hosted): end-to-end from topic discovery (trend APIs, LLM scoring) through article generation to publishing (GitHub Actions → GitHub Pages), incl. SEO automation and research grounding against generic AI copy — links under Projects
  • Real-time data pipelines for financial market data (Rust/TypeScript): 24/7 operation on my own server, LLM fallback chains, cost/latency optimization
  • Open source: Rust CLI fork with a supply-chain review workflow; game modding in C# (see Projects)
  • Intensive training: agent orchestration, LLM ops, context engineering; certified blockchain bootcamp (Metana, Jan – May 2025)
Senior Software Application Engineer — FOSH (sustainability startup)
Aug 2024 – Jul 2025
  • Cross-platform app with React Native + Expo, ownership from frontend to database
  • Designed the data architecture: MongoDB Realm (offline sync) + MongoDB Atlas
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead — NEOCOSMO GmbH, Saarbrücken
Oct 2021 – Jul 2024
Team lead from March 2022.
  • Led a multidisciplinary development team; mentoring (React Native, iOS/Android toolchain, Fastlane)
  • Project ownership from concept to launch; client and stakeholder communication, budget and deadline accountability
  • Architecture and tooling decisions (React Native, Fastlane, Detox, App Center); introduced DevOps/CI-CD practices
  • QA strategy with unit, integration and E2E tests (Detox)
  • 6 published apps on the App Store and Play Store (incl. MeinZKE, Zeitzeugen, AWO Gutzuwissen)
Co-Founder & Full-Stack Developer — VIPFY, Saarbrücken
Jan 2017 – May 2021
Joined as frontend developer, co-founder from Aug 2018.
  • Co-founded a SaaS startup (central management of cloud software for SMBs), backed by the EXIST founders' grant (2018/19), a German federal startup program
  • Built app and website: React/Redux, Apollo GraphQL, Next.js, Svelte; backend with Node.js, Sequelize/PostgreSQL
  • Team grew to 16 people at its peak; platform released as open source at the end
IT Fulfillment — Key-Systems GmbH, St. Ingbert (international domain registrar)
Mar 2011 – Dec 2016
  • Domain lifecycle management: registration, transfers, renewals, portfolio management
  • DNS configuration and administration; compliance with ICANN policies
  • Technical B2B customer support for domain/DNS topics
Earlier: student assistant, Saarland University (2008 – 2012) · warehouse logistics, EDEKA (2007 – 2009)

Projects & Open Source

AI content pipeline (n8n) — 75-node pipeline: trend analysis, LLM article generation with review queue (Airtable), automated publishing, error alerts via Telegram.
github.com/Gh05d/n8n-content-pipeline · live output: gh05d.github.io/travel-blog
Pathfinder mods (C#) — 3 published mods, ~6,000 downloads / ~31,000 views on Nexus: HarmonyLib runtime patching, IL reverse engineering of a Unity engine without source access, CI/CD with automated uploads. Largest piece: "Wrath Tactics" (companion AI system).
github.com/Gh05d/wrath-tactics
rtk (fork) — Rust CLI for token-optimized developer workflows; own supply-chain review process before every upstream merge.
github.com/Gh05d/rtk
6 store apps — e.g. MeinZKE: App Store · Play Store

Technical Skills

Languages
TypeScript/JavaScript (expert) · C# · Rust · Python · SQL · Solidity
Frontend
React, Next.js (App Router), React Native/Expo, Svelte
Backend
Node.js/Bun, GraphQL (Apollo), REST, PostgreSQL, MongoDB (Realm/Atlas), Redis
AI / LLM
Agent orchestration (multi-agent systems), LLM pipelines in production, prompt/context engineering, n8n, LLM ops (fallback chains, cost/latency tuning)
DevOps
Docker, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Fastlane, Detox, Linux server administration (bare metal), Git

Education & Certifications

Certificate in Blockchain Development (Solidity) — Metana
Jan – May 2025
B. Sc. Business Informatics — FernUniversität in Hagen (distance university)
2015 – 2017
Final grade "good" (2.4), bachelor's thesis "very good" (1.3) — German scale, 1.0 is best
Vocational training as wholesale merchant — Antalis International
2003 – 2006

Languages

German (native) · English (business fluent) · French (basic)

Awards

EXIST founders' grant (German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs) — VIPFY, 2018/19