Michael R.-Freelancer
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Experience
Freelancer
Freelancer
Lead Dev
Gartenhaus GmbH
- Further development of several international online shops
- Support for all internal and external developers
- DevOps
- SysAdmin
- Release management
- Optimization of the system architecture (speed and stability)
- Code reviews
- Quality assurance
Lead Dev, technical project management
Oyoyo.io / textilwerk.com
- Shop creation
- Interfaces (ERP)
- Creation of an on-demand textile printing online shop where designers can upload their designs and present them as finished products. A physical product is only produced and shipped once it is purchased
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
More than 20 years of professional experience with PHP and databases. For the last 10 years, a passionate e-commerce and Shopware expert with a strong interest in DevOps and smaller, everyday sysadmin tasks. Enjoy quality assurance through static code analysis tools and manual code reviews, with a focus on code quality (CCD, SOLID), performance, and security. Experienced in deployments. A true fire-fighter. For 1 year, interim technical project manager for 16 e-commerce projects.
Humorous, reliable, easy-going, flexible, communicative, goal-oriented, self-reliant, team player.
Skills
Areas Of Expertise
- Php
- Shopware
- Mysql
- Bug Hunting & Fixing
- Code Quality
- Devops
Experience And Professional Background
- Senior Backend Developer
- Lead Dev
- Team Lead
- E-Commerce Management
- Technical Project Management
Programming Languages
- Php
- Bash
- Javascript
- Html / Css (+ Preprocessor)
Tools / Utilities
- Phpstorm
- Vscode
- Git
- Git-Flow
- Svn
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- Scrum
- Jira
- Confluence
- Slack
- Hipchat
- Less
- Sass
- Scss
- Docker
Languages
Education
Apprenticeship · IT specialist for application development · Final grade 1.6; IHK final exam 94/100 points
Certifications & licenses
Clean Code Development
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Experience
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Qualifications
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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 for 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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