Michael Rudel-Freelancer
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Experience
Freelancer
Freelancer
Lead-Dev
Gartenhaus GmbH
- Further development of several international online shops
- Supporting all internal and external developers
- Dev-Ops
- SysAdmin
- Release management
- Optimization of system architecture (speed and stability)
- Code reviews
- Quality assurance
Lead Dev, technical project management
Oyoyo.io / textilwerk.com
- Shop setup
- ERP integration
- Built an on-demand textile printing online shop where designers could upload their designs and present them as finished products. A physical item is only produced and shipped once it's ordered.
Head of E-Commerce
Web-For-Life e.K.
Senior Backend Developer / Lead Dev E-Commerce
Web-For-Life e.K.
Web- & Mobile-Application-Developer
freenet.de GmbH
Industry experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Professional Services, Telecommunication, Retail, and Fashion.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Marketing, and Sales.
Summary
Well over 20 years of professional experience with PHP and databases. For the past 10 years, a passionate e-commerce and Shopware expert with a strong interest in Dev-Ops and everyday sysadmin tasks. Enjoys quality assurance using static code analysis tools and manual code reviews with a focus on code quality (CCD, SOLID), performance, and security. Skilled and experienced in deployments. A genuine fire-fighter. Served as an interim technical project manager for 16 e-commerce projects for one year.
Humorous, reliable, easy-going, flexible, communicative, goal-oriented, responsible, team player.
Skills
Competency Areas
- Php
- Shopware
- Mysql
- Bug Hunting & Fixing
- Code Quality
- Dev-Ops
Experience And Background
- Senior Backend Developer
- Lead Dev
- Team Lead
- E-Commerce Management
- Technical Project Management
Programming Languages
- Php
- Bash
- Javascript
- Html / Css (+ Preprocessor)
Tools
- Phpstorm
- Vscode
- Git
- Git-Flow
- Svn
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- Scrum
- Jira
- Confluence
- Slack
- Hipchat
- Less
- Sass
- Scss
- Docker
Languages
Education
Apprenticeship · IT specialist in application development · Final grade 1.6; Chamber of Industry and Commerce exam 94/100
Certifications & licenses
Clean Code Development
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Experience
Expertise
Qualifications
Profile
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Michael is based in Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.
Michael speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Intermediate).
Michael has at least 17 years of experience. During this time, Michael has worked in at least 6 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 11 months. Note that Michael may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Michael would be well-suited for roles such as: Freelancer, Lead-Dev, Lead Dev, technical project management.
Michael's most recent position is Freelancer at Freelancer.
In recent years, Michael has worked for Freelancer and Gartenhaus GmbH.
Michael is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Professional Services, and Telecommunication. Michael also has some experience in Retail and Fashion.
Michael is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Quality Assurance. Michael also has some experience in Project Management, Marketing, and Sales.
Michael has recently worked in industries like Retail.
Michael has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology and Quality Assurance.
Michael attended education in IT specialist in application development.
Michael has 2 certificates. These include: Clean Code Development and Shopware Certified Developer Advanced.
The availability of Michael needs to be confirmed.
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