I am a freelancing jack of all trades with nearly 20 years of experience in IT Consulting, Agile Coaching & Software Engineering. I love founding. I love Open Source. I love startups. I love to work with highly skilled teams. I love big challenges and cat videos
Current challenges
Representative Managing DirectorUhrwerk Berlin We created a timekeeper of Berlin's vibes, people and attitude. Berlin - my home - a melting pot of fashion, art, politics and music. A historic city which became the international hotspot for unconventional street style, creativity and fun loving people. Anything can happen on a day/ night out in Berlin! You can wear our Uhrwerk Berlin watch for any occasion - it's simplicity makes it your perfect accessory. Chic or edgy - feel free and timeless like Berlin! Order at https://uhrwerk.berlin
Lead Frontend-EngineerdokSAFE GmbH Team Lead responsible for building a Microsoft Azure-based office software from ground-up using Electron, Angular 4, Typescript, Jest, Sass & Webpack
FounderNerds of all Trades GmbH A Berlin-based community building software and consulting IT-projects with focus on E-Commerce https://nerdsofalltrad.es
Past projects
Senior Frontend-EngineerImmobilien Scout24 GmbH Frontend-Engineer responsible for know-how- and experience-building of edge frontend-technologies
Delivery LeadDeutsche Post E-POST Development GmbH Team Lead responsible & accountable for product and backlog. Supporting a big team to work the agile way. Killing impediments Scrum-Master-style. Inter-team management for product evolution and legacy migration
Foundernip.to is a free service to share your current location with friends. Use nip.to with your smartphone or tablet computer. Get your current location and share a special link via E-Mail, SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage or whatever. Once your friends open that link they are routed via a simple compass app to finally nip to you. Great for hanging out in the park, festivals, finding the way out of the desert and even lost cars
Senior Frontend EngineerDeutsche Post E-POST Development GmbH Rebuilding the legacy E-POSTBRIEF-Portal from scratch with modern technologies like Angular.js on a scalable and virtualized infrastructure. Register at https://portal.epost.de
Founderedoclet The tldr; for news. edoclet generates one-sentence-abstracts from several sources
FounderboffR GmbH Local event promotion and search engine — the social way. 2.4 million subscribed users in Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria
Consultant & Software EngineerStrategy for IT challenges Freelance-based projects at Deutsche Telekom AG, Tazaldoo GmbH, IBB Investitionsbank Berlin, Daily Deal GmbH, Klickfilm U.G., Neutrinity GmbH, Media.net BerlinBrandenburg, KLab Educmedia GmbH, MindQ GbR
Senior Software Engineeradesso AG Project Management, Consulting, Coaching and Software Engineering projects at Bitmarck Holding GmbH, DAK Gesundheit, Blitzstrom GmbH, HEK - Hanseatische Krankenkasse, Belectric Trading GmbH, Zurich Winterthur http://adesso.de
IP Systems EngineerMCI/ Verizon Business Development of customer billing portal OnlineManager II from frontend to backend down to SIP protocol and auto-provisioning Cisco routers. http://verizon.com
IT ConsultantDIS Informationssysteme GmbH Software Engineering & Coaching projects at ARCOR AG & Co. KG, Caterpillar INC., O2 Germany GmbH, PSI AG, E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG, Vodafone GmbH, Skogforsk Sweden
Frontend EngineerCreative Web Publishing GbR Creating websites that were optimized for Netscape Navigator at 800x600 resolution and 256 colors, sigh.
Speaker
ES6 syntactic sugar you should be using today See slidesImmobilienscout24
Geek frontend technologies E-POST
Freemium business models Alex TV
Fun retrospectives @gile nite
Technologies for rapid prototyping startups betahaus
Low budget architectures Payment Wall
Why website-performance will boost your business hub:raum
2 Million users in 3 months Pitchfreunde
Mastering CSS Animations like a boss Startup Bootcamp
Certifcates
Diploma Information Technology & business administration University of Applied Sciences Dortmund/ Cologne
Master of Arts (M.A.), Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence University of Osnabrück
Internet Security
Agile Leadership
Compliance
Rethorics
Dev-Ops
De-escalation
Adobe Photoshop
Motivation
Rapid prototyping
Agile Methods
Moderation
Prince 2
Presentation
JSF - Java Server Faces & AJAX
Project Management
Security Awareness
FCPA Compliance
Sarbanes & Oxley (SOX) Compliance
Corporate Governance & Ethics
My Portfolio
Though I am kind of full-stack due to my long-time work experience in IT projects I specialized on IT Consulting & Agile Leadership and some fine aspects of modern IT:
Agile Consulting
User Experience Design(UX)
Frontend Engineering
Scalability/ Microservice Architecture
Performance Optimization
Some technologies I prefer are HTML5, React.js, Mustache, Javascript, ES 6 & 7, Node, NPM, Electron, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Browserify, Tape, Jest, Karma, Mocha, Phantom.js, Selenium, Browserstack, Teamcity, Travis-ci, Greenkeeper.io, PostCSS, Stylus, Less & Sass, Yeoman, Markdown, Atom.io, Slack, HipChat, Vagrant, Ansible, Docker, Amazon AWS & Lambda, Azure MongoDB, Firebase, CouchDB, Redis, NginX, Digital Ocean, Mailchimp, Zapier, Twilio, Trello, Chrome Canary & ... Github.
And yes — fun & vintage — I still remember the good old days fiddling with Solaris, Oracle, IBM DB2, UML & Model-driven Architecture, SED/ AWK, Perl, SH, Apache, Sendmail, ISO-8859-1, Angular.js, Java Applets, JBoss, Tomcat, J2EE, Grails, Groovy, Hibernate, AWT/ Spring, JQuery/ Scriptaculous, Jira/ Confluence & BIND6.