Javascript Developer & Team Leader

Kandidát je skúsený webový vývojár s viac ako 9-ročnou praxou, ktorý žije vo Viedni. Ovláda rôzne technológie a nástroje vrátane HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Vue, TypeScript, NodeJs, AWS a ďalších. Jeho kariérny postup zahŕňa pozície, ako napríklad Team Lead v spoločnosti Heylog GmbH, kde vynikal v oblasti náboru, riadenia tímu a vedenia projektov. Ako Senior Frontend Developer v spoločnosti Sportradar Media Services GmbH preukázal odborné znalosti pri vývoji nových produktov, spolupráci v rámci tímov a mentorovaní kolegov. Jeho skúsenosti siahajú do rôznych oblastí, od financií v spoločnosti Wikifolio Financial Technologies AG až po elektronický obchod v spoločnosti Shpock - Finderly GmbH. Na projektoch sa podieľal aj ako nezávislý vývojár a prekladateľ.

Team Lead

(OCTOBER 2022 – OCTOBER 2023) VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Duties

• Hiring and onboarding
• Team management
• Mentoring and supporting team members
• Estimating, breaking down and leading different projects and initiatives
• Organizing and leading Sprint efforts and processes
• Communication with external partners

Accomplishments:

• 33 candidates interviewed, 7 of those were signed at the end
• Interviewed and hired for different positions: Senior BE, Intermediate BE, Intermediate FE, FullStack, Freelance
• Held biweekly 1-on-1s with all team members (up to 5 team members at a time)
• Mentored and supported a team of 5 developers
• Reviewed on average 5+ PRs per day
• I was in charge of 20+ different projects and initiatives (small, mid, big)
• Made on average 5 technical decisions per project (small, mid, big)
• Project estimates were most of the time on point
• I was responsible for 45+ weekly sprints
• My team and me were responsible for 60+ releases (out of those, ~10 were hotfixes), whichresulted in ~ 1,5 release per week
• Coordinated 10+ Mobile App releases
• My team produced ~30 different user facing features
• Together with my team I created and refined the following processes: Hiring, Daily Standups,Planning, Testing, Releasing
• Communicated with ~5 different external partners on various different topics (freelance agencies,integrations, team support, etc...)

Senior Frontend Developer

(AUGUST 2022 – SEPTEMBER 2022) VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Duties:

• Inspecting the codebase
• Managing an external agency
• Hiring and creating processes
• Worked on Bug Fixes and smaller UI refinements

Accomplishments:

• Created an initial code health document
• Created an improvement suggestions document
• Pushed for and assisted in creating an infrastructure overview document
• Coordinated and collaborated with 4 developers from the external agency
• Made ~15 releases together with the external agency
• Interviewed 7-10 candidates for the initial engineering team for different positions (Senior andIntermediate BE and Intermediate FE)
• Revised the Job ads together with the CEO (3 job ads)
• 80+ tickets solved
• I had 168 commits, 4 620 lines added, 2 291 lines removed as contributions to the codebase

Senior Developer

(APRIL 2020 – JULY 2022) VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Duties:

• Developing new products in the ads space as a part of three different teams
• Close collaboration with PO on developing, testing and maintaining new features and products
• Aligning and collaborating across different teams and initiatives
• Working with legacy code and improving it along the way
• Working on the Frontend as well as on the Backend (Full-Stack)
• Active mentoring of less experienced colleagues and empowering them to deliver great results
• Onboarding of new team members
• Responsible for managing production deployments
• Active participation in merging an acquired company into the team I was on

Accomplishments:

- Successfully completed a couple of MVP projects

• Developed 4 new widgets from the ground up with various variations and A/B tests
• Resolved dozens of production bugs
• Integrated and deployed 100+ stories/features
• Successfully completed 6+ epics
• Single handedly completed a code cleanup project where 15k+ files (over 1,2 M lines of code)were deleted resulting in reducing the CI/CD pipelines execution time by half
• Transferred features between various projects
• Seamless integration between our team and an acquired company
• Regular pairing up sessions with less experienced colleagues which lead to them beingself-sufficient and familiar with the project quickly
• Member of a 2022 Coding Academy where I was responsible for Frontend track and leading theClean Code book club with 12 participants

Frontend Developer

(FEBRUARY 2019 – APRIL 2020) VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Duties:

• Working closely with the design and UX team on integrating new features
• Working together with backend colleagues as well as independently
• Modernizing the tech stack where possible
• Rewriting and optimizing legacy code (jQuery) into modern ES6/Typescript code
• Helping out and mentoring junior developers
• In essence I was responsible for fixing bugs, writing new features (with TypeScript), refactoring legacy code, improving tooling and making UI improvements

Accomplishments:

• Integrated several new modules into the platform in collaboration with the BE developers and UX designers
• Worked on a couple of complex modal forms
• Resolving dozens of production UI bugs with the focus on not breaking backwards compatibility and usage of the components
• Refactored several legacy services
• Involved in ~65 different stories
• Reviewed 6-9 PRs on average per 2 week sprints

Frontend Developer

(JULY 2018 – FEBRUARY 2019) VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Duties:

• Working as a frontend JavaScript developer
• Using React to create and style all the components on the website (CSS-in-JS with StyledComponents) with TypeScript as a static type checker
• Using GraphQL with Apollo for data handling (queries, mutations)
• Using Yarn as a package manager for JS dependencies
• Using a separate Repository of components which are extended as needed and reusedthroughout the main website

Accomplishments:

• Contributed in rewriting the whole website to use 100% React and CSS-in-JS. No PHP and no CSS classes (no LESS or SASS), all styling was done within styled components
• I was able to reduce the complexity of the legacy code and made business logic much more simpler and maintainable on several parts of the project
• Reused code throughout the project

Web Developer

(FEBRUARY 2016 – JUNE 2018) VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Duties:

• Worked as a general purpose web developer (hybrid apps, WordPress, Creative development, landing pages)
• Converted design mockups into working website layouts and UIs
• Closely collaborated with the design team on various design and implementation issues
• Used design and creative skills to come up with solutions for Responsive design challengesAccomplishments:
• Worked on 2 successfully completed Hybrid app projects (Ionic, AngularJS, Grunt, Sass)
• Developed, deployed, migrated and maintained 15+ WordPress websites that were based onfree, premium and custom themes (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Gulp, Docker)
• Developed and deployed 6 Landing pages for some of the biggest companies in Austria
• Developed and deployed 40+ creative advertisements for national and international clients

Web Developer

(FEBRUARY 2014 – NOVEMBER 2017)

Duties:

• Worked on customizing free and premium WordPress themes for various clients and industries
• Developed custom UI elements and widgets, with JavaScript functionality
• Continuously supported and maintained several WordPress websites
• As a part of a small team, my job was to integrate the design mockups and work closely with thebackend developers to finish custom features for custom WordPress websites

Accomplishments:

• Finished 40+ different web projects, mainly WordPress based
• Acquired and maintained professional relationships with ~5 returning clients
• Successfully helped in screening and onboarding new developers to the team