Curriculum Vitae

Senior Fullstack Engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience building products for the web. Driven by building great products with a team of smart people — most experienced and useful as an engineer and technical manager.

Experience

Gigs — gigs.com

Engineering Manager· 2024 – present

• Owned and continuously evolved the fullstack hiring pipeline (including take-home and live-coding formats), enabling ambitious hiring goals without lowering quality.
• Led a team of 5 through leadership transition and post-restructuring restaffing, rebuilding a high-performing team and maintaining delivery momentum.
• Expanded scope by taking over a second team in a key vertical while driving cross-team frontend reliability work (dependency upgrades, security fixes, platform health).
• Drove product and technical direction hands-on by steering major product/design changes, advancing AI adoption through practical tooling, and staying deep in architecture and implementation details.

Senior Fullstack Engineer· 2022 – 2024

• Worked on Connect, a user-facing, multi-tenant, no-code platform allowing customers to sell connectivity products without implementation effort.
• Refactored the number porting flow and moved it from pre-checkout to post-checkout, vastly decreasing user churn.
• Authored the initial release of in-house API documentation, retiring a generic, bought-in solution.
• Wrote guides and recorded instructional videos to aid customers implementing Connect features.
• Worked on the conversion of Next.js app from the pages to the app router.

Cisco — cisco.com

Software Engineer· 2020 – 2022

• Created Webex Shop with a small team, bringing it to production within 3 months.
• Introduced Hotwire to the existing Rails codebase.
• Worked closely with designers and product managers to improve the existing device shop.

Railslove — railslove.com

Fullstack Engineer· 2016 – 2020

• Worked on the design and implementation of multiple customer projects, with Ruby on Rails and React.js.
• Led and managed customer projects.

51seven

Co-Founder & Design Engineer· 2014 – 2016

• Co-founded 51seven, a small agency focused on building web applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
• Actively involved in the daily operations of the agency.

Technical University of Cologne

Scientific Assistant & Tutor· 2013 – 2016

• Worked as a scientific assistant helping build courses.
• Ran workshops on tools like Sketch, Photoshop, and Git.

Education

Technical University of Cologne

2012 – 2016 · B.Sc. Web Science