Curriculum Vitae
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Engineering Manager
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Apr 2022 - today
- Tasks
Transition from Individual Contributor to Engineering Manager
- Initially led Team Search, later moved responsibilities to Checkout & Cart Teams as well as Team Login
- Assessed team health, defined improvement plans, and executed initiatives to optimize performance and delivery
- Mentored developers via in-depth code reviews and pair programming to raise code quality and technical expertise
- Facilitated agile ceremonies, process improvements, and technical discussions to ensure effective collaboration
- Drove stakeholder alignment and contributed to the definition and tracking of OKRs
- Member of the 24/7 incident coordination team, ensuring rapid response and resolution of critical issues
- Led interviews and onboarding processes to build and integrate new team members effectively
- Leadership
- People Development, Peer-Feedback, OKR Framework, Salaries & Promotions, Conflict Solving, Business Strategy
- Techstack
- PHP, Symfony, Vue, Nuxt.js, NodeJS, Typescript, gRPC, JSON APIs, Hexagonal Architecture
Architecture Expert
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
- Tasks
Frontend Architect & Founding Member of the Architecture Team
- Became a founding member of the Architecture Team after a major reorganization of the tech department
- Served as Frontend Architect, responsible for assessing existing frontends and defining the target architecture for the entire company
- Collaborated closely with infrastructure and backend teams to shape a unified, holistic vision
- Supported product teams in aligning with and achieving the architectural vision
- Provided regular reporting and alignment with upper management
- Techstack
- Microfrontend, AppShell, Vue, Nuxt.js, SSR, React, Tailwind, NodeJS, gRPC, JWT, oAuth2
Senior Engineer
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
- Tasks
Senior Frontend Engineer & Frontend Lead – Team Checkout
- Joined as Senior Frontend Engineer and Frontend Lead for Team Checkout
- Maintained and extended the checkout process with new features
- Worked on a monolithic frontend built with Smarty and jQuery
- Developed the first internal tooling to safeguard frontend quality
- Initiated and built an internal frontend component library
- Techstack
- Smarty, Javascript, jQuery, Vue
Frontend Engineer
Sedo GmbH
Mar 2015 - Jun 2019
- Tasks
Frontend Lead – E-Commerce Platform Development
- Advanced the frontend development of a complex e-commerce platform
- Re-built features from ground, including user signup and search functionality using TypeScript, ReactJS, and RESTful APIs
- Took over leadership of frontend development for the entire marketplace
- Trained apprentices and supported recruitment of new colleagues
- Techstack
- Typescript, React, jQuery, Smarty, SEO, Typo3, RESTful APIs
Head of Web & Managing Partner
Mediapatriots UG
Mar 2013 - Apr 2016
- Tasks
Co-Founder – Digital Agency & eSports Platform
- Co-founded a company with a former fellow student and friend
- Executed contract-based projects for clients, including corporate websites and SEO optimization
- Developed an in-house whitelabel platform for organizing and running eSports tournaments, built in PHP
- Techstack
- HTML, CSS, jQuery, Craft CMS, Drupal, Wordpress, PHP
Frontend Engineer
dw capital GmbH / Curtis Newton Labs GmbH
Jul 2012 - Feb 2013
- Tasks
Frontend Developer – Cross-Functional Product Team
- Responsible for frontend development in a small cross-functional team maintaining multiple websites
- Enhanced and maintained existing products while driving development of new websites and features based on fresh ideas
- Techstack
- HTML, CSS, jQuery, JTE
Junior Engineer
bplusd interactive GmbH
Feb 2011 - Jun 2012
- Tasks
Working Student – Web Development
- Worked as a junior developer during studies at SAE University
- Implemented multiple web applications for diverse clients
- Delivered projects ranging from small raffles and landing pages to large, fully featured product websites
- Techstack
- HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, Druplal, Wordpress, Typo3
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