From immigrant outsider to tech lead
I moved to Berlin from Eastern Europe 6 years ago. I barely spoke German and my English was rough. My first tech job here was fixing bugs nobody else wanted to fix. I kept my head down, wrote good code, …
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david_ber
Immigrant. First in my family to work in tech. Berlin.
Germany
Bavaria
Berlin
35-44
Man
White
German
Bachelor's
Software Engineering
Senior
Mid career
Immigrant
Tech
Some experience
Kreuzberg
University of Bucharest
Romanian immigrant in Berlin tech
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March 2026
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Be assigned as technical lead on a project with at least 3 team members
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