Professional Experience

My professional journey and the experiences that have shaped my career in software development.

Facelift brand building technologies GmbH

Software Engineer

📍 Hamburg, Germany Jan 2023 - Present

Responsibilities

At Facelift, I took the lead on designing and building the company’s analytics platform, creating a scalable and high-performance Dashboard experience from the ground up. My role spanned full-stack development, infrastructure management, and mentoring, always with a strong focus on delivering business value and improving user experience.

  • Architected and built a new Analytics platform from scratch, enabling real-time insights for customers
  • Introduced new data visualization techniques like combined metric views, top content and big numbers with custom export engine to enhance user experience
  • Wrote and maintained comprehensive test suites: unit, integration, component, storybook and end-to-end (Cypress)
  • Configured logging and monitoring pipelines with Sentry, Segment, Kibana, and Grafana
  • Administered databases and designed migration and automation scripts

Key Achievements

  • Developed new Analytics platform from scratch
  • Architected and implemented Analytics Light version
  • Streamlined Database Migrations
  • Introduced Automation for Content creation for Analytics dashboard
  • Enhanced Performance - Improved application speed by 30% through performance optimizations both in Frontend and Backend

Technologies:

AngularJS TypeScript Node.js PHP MySQL Kubernetes AWS

Quintly GmbH

Software Developer

📍 Köln, Germany Dec 2016 - Jan 2023

Responsibilities

I joined Quintly during a high-growth phase and contributed to the foundation of its analytics offering. I helped shape the State of Art social media analytics platform and drive major architectural and product improvements across the board.

  • Enhanced dashboarding experience with chart and data visualizations
  • Implemented manual and auto post tagging
  • Contributed to dashboard reports and export engines (e.g.: file and interactive link)
  • Initiated data worker pipeline using serverless framework, implemented lambda and NodeJS and step functions
  • Led architecture design discussions and collaborated on database modeling
  • Managed cloud resources in AWS and proposed infrastructure optimizations
  • Diagnosed and resolved bugs, participated in feature iteration planning

Technologies:

ReactJS Node.js PHP MySQL AWS Serverless Lambda Step Functions

Kuzo Media

Software Developer

📍 Nohra, Germany Mar 2014 - Feb 2015

Responsibilities

At Kuzo Media, I specialized in extending the ShopWare e-commerce platform by developing and maintaining custom plugins. I worked closely with the product and QA teams to deliver reliable, performance-focused features that improved client stores’ functionality and stability.

  • Developed and maintained plugins for the ShopWare shopping platform
  • Debugged and resolved issues in third-party and in-house plugins
  • Collaborated with product and QA teams to ensure quality delivery

Technologies:

PHP ShopWare MySQL