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