Engineering Manager with a strong technical background. I believe great teams are empowered and self-organized. As a manager, I listen to people and create an environment that grows them to their full potential. As an engineer, I advocate automation and software quality, reducing the friction in software engineering, so that the humans can focus on the important tasks.
Engineering Management & Technical Leadership
- People management (i.e. 1:1s and personal development talks) for a team of software engineers
- Providing technical expertise and giving direction to engineers
- Creating growth opportunities to engineers, which helped multiple reports to grow into senior roles
- Implemented multiple improvments to streamline the software development process (Jenkins CI, automated testing, JIRA)
- Planning of OKRs and weekly sprints in collaboration with product and other stakeholders
- Coordination and execution of software projects together with external partners
- Contributing to the refinement of the IC and EM career growth paths
- Hiring manager for the PHP Software Engineer role, responsible for defining the interview process and decision making
Technical Skills
Web Application Development
- PHP (since version 4, nowadays on 7/8)
- Symfony Framework
- Doctrine ORM/ODM
- MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- PHPUnit, Prophecy
- APIs in SOAP / REST / custom
- Python, Django, Jupyter, Pandas
- Java
Web Frontend
- HTML5
- CSS3
- LESS / SASS
- JavaScript
- React JS
- Twig
Methodology
- OOP
- Software design patterns
- Automated testing & quality assurance of software
- Continuous Integration & Deployment
- Kanban / Agile
Tools
- Git / Github
- Composer
- Jenkins CI
- Travis CI
- Apache
- Nginx
- PHP-FPM
- JIRA / Confluence
- ELK Stack / Kibana
- Grafana
- Hive
- Unix Shell / Bash
Design
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
Education
- Diploma in Computer Science (2010)
- Doing web development since 2001, working as a professional since 2005
- Languages: German (native), English (fluent)