Paul Dicke | Software Developer

Hamburg, Germany


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About

Hey, I'm Paul

Software has been my thing since forever. What started as messing around with code as a teenager somehow turned into an actual career and honestly, I still get the same kick out of it. I like building stuff that works well and makes sense.

Day to day, I mostly live in C# and .NET backends, real-time systems, that kind of thing. Right now at Eurocommand, I'm working on crisis management software that firefighters and emergency services actually rely on. Before that, I was at IP Dynamics building telephony platforms that handled thousands of calls at once.

When I'm not at work, I'm usually tinkering with drones and robotics. I'm building an autonomous search & rescue drone with ROS2 right now. I've also built neural networks from scratch just to see if I could, made a Minecraft clone, and put together a laser engraver from spare parts.

I'm also in the Freiwillige Feuerwehr (volunteer fire department) which means I get to see the emergency world from both sides. Writing the software and being the one who actually uses it.

Years Exp.

10+

Projects

Companies

Tech

What I work with

Programming

C# JavaScript Python Java C++

Backend & Systems

.NET / ASP.NET Core REST APIs SQL / Databases SignalR ServiceFabric Entity Framework Real-time Systems

Frontend

React / JSX MobX MUI React Router Vite Blazor

Robotics & IoT

ROS2 Humble PX4 Autopilot Gazebo MQTT Path Planning Drone Navigation

DevOps & Tools

Git Azure DevOps Docker Kubernetes RabbitMQ Agile / Scrum

Architecture

Microservices API Design Backend Architecture Distributed Systems

Career

Where I've worked

Oct 2024 - Present

Software Developer

Eurocommand GmbH · Hamburg

Working across the full CommandX, CIMgate.LIVE, and CIMgate.CONNECT stack
Building the CommandX platform: digital situation maps, tracking resources, logging incidents, syncing everything across multiple instances
CIMgate.LIVE: getting drone feeds, bodycams, and surveillance cameras streaming directly into the map in real time
CIMgate.CONNECT: wiring up CommandX to dispatch centers, vehicle telematics, and all kinds of BOS systems (gRPC, REST, SOAP, you name it)
Working in a small agile team where everyone wears multiple hats

Feb 2023 - Oct 2024

C# Software Developer

IP Dynamics GmbH

C# / .NET backend work on enterprise telephony products
Led the Teams telephony integration, handling thousands of calls at the same time
Helped design the architecture for Dynamic Brain and Dynamic Workload (real-time, high-availability stuff)
Wrote the workload routing logic and session management
Built the CTI softphone integration and API gateway
Ended up being the go-to person for releases, onboarding, and generally explaining how things work

Work

Professional Projects

// Eurocommand

CommandX

The main thing I work on. A crisis management platform for emergency services. Situation maps with ArcGIS, resource tracking, incident logs, org charts, multi-instance sync for failover. It's used by fire departments, disaster relief orgs, and state governments across Germany.

C#.NETReactMobXMUIArcGISRESTOn-Premise

CIMgate.LIVE

Feeds live video into CommandX. Drone cameras, bodycams, surveillance streams (RTMP, RTSP, WebRTC). You can see drone positions on the map, assign search areas, and pull in air traffic data. Basically, everything you'd want to see during an operation.

C#.NETRTMPRTSPWebRTCDronesReal-time

CIMgate.CONNECT

The glue between CommandX and the outside world. Dispatch centers, vehicle telematics (CAN-Bus), sensors, BOS third-party systems. Speaks pretty much everything: gRPC, REST, SOAP, SQL, WDX3, DIN SPEC 91287. Deduplicates and validates all data, runs decentralized with encrypted storage.

C#.NETgRPCRESTSOAPSQLTelematics

// IP Dynamics

Teams Media Adapter

Telephony through Microsoft Teams. I led this one. Thousands of calls running at once, async processing, DTMF detection, speech recognition on raw audio. Pretty intense but really fun to build.

C#.NETRESTGraph APIDevOps

Dynamic Brain

Real-time data management with high availability. I helped shape the architecture, became one of the main go-to people on it, handled releases, and got new devs up to speed.

C#ASP.NET CoreSignalRServiceFabricEF

Dynamic Workload

Grew out of Dynamic Brain. I wrote the routing algorithm that decides where work goes, the session management for connected apps, and plugged in the CTI softphone stuff.

C#ASP.NET CoreSignalRServiceFabricDevOps

Dynamic ApiGateway

Admin UI for managing API gateway routes, built with Blazor WASM and Ocelot.

C#Blazor WASMOcelotEFREST

Projects

Things I've built

Featured · Active Development

SkyRescue

The side project I'm most excited about right now. An autonomous search & rescue drone that flies waypoint patterns and handles takeoff and landing on its own. Next up: getting multiple drones to coordinate and adding camera-based person detection. For humanitarian use only.

ROS2PX4PythonC++GazeboMQTT

Featured · Live

Duckverse

A map where you can track ducks. Yes, really. Built it with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap. Sometimes the best projects are the dumb ones.

C#.NETJavaScriptReactViteLeafletOpenStreetMap

CNN Framework

Built the whole thing from scratch in Python. No TensorFlow, no PyTorch, just math.

PythonNumPyDeep Learning

Minecraft Clone

Procedural terrain, chunk loading, the works. Mainly built this because I wanted to understand how 3D rendering actually works under the hood.

C#Unity3D

Laser Engraver

Built the hardware and wrote the controller software. Designed the circuit, wired it up, wrote the code. The whole thing.

PythonC++Hardware

// ...and plenty more prototypes, experiments, and side projects along the way.