Moving to Germany as a Software Engineer (Part 1)

Abhinav Kumar
3 min readJan 22, 2023
Photo by Maheshkumar Painam on Unsplash

This is my first series of stories, that I decided to share with a wider audience. In this series, I am sharing stories and my learning experience about “How I moved to Germany as a Software Engineer?” For simplicity and your valuable time, I have divided this into multiple parts. Links are at the end. Links are at the bottom.

Being a Software Engineer and working for Multi National IT Companies, for a boy from a tier 2 city (Patna, Bihar) in India, is a dream come true thing. Especially when I started in 2014 right after my graduation (BCA), and currently working as Senior Software Engineer at Zalando. At the early stage of my career, I understood and learned that experimenting and failing to learn, iterate and try again is key to surviving in this industry and in life.

Moving fast forward, life happens, after 7 years of working in software service companies and a startup. Things started getting stale and repeated, like working, learning new technology, and switching jobs. At some point in time, I started feeling it's easy to change a job rather than stay in a job.

It was December 2020, after the COVID lockdowns, I started exploring opportunities outside of India, especially in Europe. I always seek experience, because I believe experience is what makes us and help us to make decision in life. In short

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Abhinav Kumar
Abhinav Kumar

Written by Abhinav Kumar

Software Engineer @Zalando, Living in Germany, Tech enthusiast, Story Teller, Write about my learning and experiences in tech and in life.