DeepL

Responsible for the experimentation and product data scopes.

Engineering Manager - Product Foundations

HelloFresh

• Built and led two cross-functional teams to develop an experimentation platform, with a distributed domain-driven architecture, to accelerate data-driven decision making by our product organization.
• Increased the average number of experiments created annually by 133% in the first three years and the number of core product KPIs available for measuring business impact by 500%.
• Launched a bar raiser program to improve the quality of the experimentation process globally.
• Successfully planned and executed a migration from our in-house experimentation tool to a third-party platform, in order to better meet the needs of our internal customers.
• Ran a company-wide engineering showcase called Geek Friday, in which engineers demoed their work, and I facilitated an AMA-style discussion with senior tech leadership—this popular event has been a linchpin of our organizational culture.

Engineering Manager - Experimentation Platform

TIER Mobility

• Contributed to the internal web application used by operations teams to track Tier vehicles on an interactive map.
• Led the migration of our backend services to TypeScript, in order to improve the scalability and robustness of our backend systems.
• Left in good standing after a brief tenure for pandemic-related reasons.

Senior Software Developer

Blacklane

• Assembled a special team to build a prototype for a next-generation, microservices-based architecture to support business expansion.
• Developed a GraphQL service as part of this project, coordinated schema design and BFF strategy with the team, and trained other engineers in the company on this technology.
• Organized a company-wide, day-long "science fair" event to promote the work we delivered and its potential for business impact.

Senior Frontend Engineer

• Worked on both consumer-facing and supply-side web applications for our chauffeur booking product.
• Advocated for and initiated a new design system for our frontend teams, which contributed to the successful completion of a major rebranding project.
• Pushed for the adoption of TypeScript across all frontend teams in order to promote standards and improve codebase scalability with type safety.
• Revived and led the adoption of our frontend tech radar, which established a unified technical vision for all frontend engineers in the company.

Frontend Engineer

Cross-functional engineering leader skilled in communication, team building, and technical strategy. With a background in higher education, I value continuous learning and collaborative problem-solving. Committed to working on impactful products that enhance people's lives.

I am the founder of the Berlin Functional Programming Group and Berlin Collaborative Modeling meetups and the founding instructor of Aikido Kokikai Berlin.

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