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Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer and interim Teamlead, Interhyp Gruppe

  Oct, 2023 - Present

  Achieved company top performer status 2023. Leadership of a team of 4 software engineers. Owner of customer facing mortgage calculators, a core part of the business model, driving new business and focused on customer generation.

  • Achieved company top performer status 2023

  • Leadership of a team of 4 software engineers

  • Owner of customer facing mortgage calculators, a core part of the business model, driving new business and focused on customer generation

  • Developing a strategy for effective collaboration with near shore engineering teams

  • Presented multiple companywide talks on TypeScript and React including: 'Introduction to Redux', 'How to use RTK-query and why you shouldn't', 'Enforcing architectural consistency in frontend teams', '10 rust language features I want in React' and 'How learning other languages helped my TypeScript code'

  • Represented Interhyp successfully at ING Hackathons, winning second place twice

  • Developed a language memory game using Elixir and Phoenix liveView for recruitment purposes

• Full Stack Engineer, Interhyp Gruppe

  Jan, 2022 - Sep, 20231 year 8 months

  Developed a video call application in React and Node.js saving the company hundreds of thousands of Euros annually. Technical leadership of 5, making architectural decisions as well as implementing the frontend and backend.

  • Developed a video call application in React and Node.js saving the company hundreds of thousands of Euros annually. Technical leadership of 5, making architectural decisions as well as implementing the frontend and backend

  • Replaced a vital call handling application with a custom solution in React. Organized direct feedback loops between the end users and my team, leading to a significant increase in user satisfaction and product adoption

  • Responsible for onboarding new team members as a mentor and buddy. This resulted in me becoming an unofficial teamlead of my team

  • Created a new weekly format 'Blabla & Build' for communication between teams, where current topics were discussed and showcased, followed by a quiz. This has been ongoing for over two years now and is widely regarded as a company and cultural highlight

  • One of the top 3 active members in the frontend chapter within the company, developing workshops and internal tooling

  • Active member of the local React meetup in Leipzig, presenting workshops and talks about state management and frontend best practices

• Frontend Quality Consultant, Novatec Consulting GmbH

  Jan, 2021 - Dec, 202111 months

  Lead contributor to the internal frontend chapter. Technical Leadership of a team of 5 software engineers, while migrating an existing desktop application to the web for Docufy, allowing for easier collaboration with contractors.

  • Lead contributor to the internal frontend chapter

  • Technical Leadership of a team of 5 software engineers, while migrating an existing desktop application to the web for Docufy, allowing for easier collaboration with contractors

  • Developed a highly customizable progress tracker in React and NodeJS for an aviation startup, reducing client mails significantly

  • Presented multiple workshops on developing maintainable and adaptable frontends using React

  • Mentored and coached juniors and trainees in Frontend best practices for state management and testing

  • Provided architectural and development services for a climate change application written in Svelte and NestJS

  • Evaluated the usage of rust in frontend applications with yew by building an internal tool for converting markdown to HTML for our CMS

• Junior Consultant Frontend, Novatec Consulting GmbH

  Apr, 2020 - Dec, 20208 months

  Lead the integration of React into a large financing desktop application for Hess, increasing user accessibility through webpages.

  • Lead the integration of React into a large financing desktop application for Hess, increasing user accessibility through webpages

  • Developed an overarching architectural change to enable historical revisions in a large financing desktop application for Hess, contributing to overall user satisfaction and significantly reducing requests to undo changes to the engineers

  • Active member of the Agile Engineering Community of Practice, working together with accomplished software architects to write blog posts and design workshops for customer acquisition purposes

• Software Engineering Project Lead, SCMT GmbH

  Oct, 2019 - Mar, 20205 months

  Modernized a fault prediction analysis application, developed for Daimler Trucks AG, rewriting sections of it from Java to Kotlin, improving maintenance speed and overall reliability.

  • Modernized a fault prediction analysis application, developed for Daimler Trucks AG, rewriting sections of it from Java to Kotlin, improving maintenance speed and overall reliability

  • Developed an internally used time tracking tool in React and TypeScript, saving employees time daily

  • Streamlined Requirements Engineering processes by introducing arc42, improving project transparency for stakeholders

  • Responsible for managing client/stakeholder communication, representing the company in business negotiations

• Software Engineering Working Student, SOLID WHITE

  Apr, 2017 - May, 20181 year 1 month

  Developed a real time collaborative VR application for customer journeys using C# and Unity.

  • Developed a real time collaborative VR application for customer journeys using C# and Unity

  • Responsible for developing frontends that can be used seamlessly on PC as well as AR/VR devices, expanding the market reach significantly

• Software Engineer and AR/VR Consultant, Avataw

  Jun, 2016 - Present

  Developed custom wordpress plugins and themes for small business and startups. Created an augmented reality children's book about climate change using Unity and C#.

  • Developed custom wordpress plugins and themes for small business and startups

  • Created an augmented reality children's book about climate change using Unity and C#

  • Developed several AR/VR applications used by teachers in schools

  • Consulted German Government agencies how to effectively use AR/VR in schools

  • Designed and ran workshops in schools, teaching kids how to code

• Software Engineering Working Student in R&D, AEB

  May, 2015 - May, 20161 year

  Won first place in a student competition building a desktop app for tournament administration, receiving the AEB scholarship.

  • Won first place in a student competition building a desktop app for tournament administration, receiving the AEB scholarship

  • Evaluated different frontend tools like React, Angular, Ember and SAPUI5 for the purpose of deciding the companies web strategy

  • Boosted user satisfaction by extracting product tracking information out of the desktop app to the web using SAPUI5

  • Organized an internal Hackathon and held workshops about SAPUI5

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