Internationalization Experts in Munich

Worked as an App Engineer as part of the IoT Control team in a React Native Stack.

• Implementing new Components based on the Tonies Design System.
• Improving, extending and maintaining Tonies Design System
• Adding new features like Volume and Playback Control of the Tonies
• Fixed connection issues via bluetooth and wifi
• Removing technical debt and polishing for an upcoming big software and hardware release
• Improving accessibility by optimizing screens and components for usage via screen readers.
• Wrote lots of automated tests to ensure app quality is always stellar.
• Weekly app releases in a high volume workload environment

Results & Impact:

• Improved app stability and connection reliability ahead of a major software and hardware release
• Raised overall app quality through a significantly broader automated test suite, catching regressions before they reached users
• Made the app usable with screen readers, improving accessibility for a wider audience
• Sustained a weekly release rhythm in a high-volume production environment without quality regressions

Technologies: react-native, expo, typescript, react-19, react-compiler, react-navigation, zustand, @tanstack/react-query, i18next, figma, app-store, play-store, sentry, bitrise, config-cat, poeditor

Project for a leading German email and cloud service provider: As Senior Frontend Developer and Technical Web Architect, I developed an international, multi-tenant white-label consent management layer for multiple brands.

Main tasks:

• Architecture and implementation with Vue 3, TypeScript, and Vite
• Development of automated tests with Vitest and Playwright
• Creation of brand-specific CMP configurations, CSS themes, i18n structures, and vendor settings
• Implementation of playout and initialization logic as well as backend integration
• Technical decision support, project, and code documentation

Impact: Replacement of external CMP solutions with a reusable and long-term maintainable in-house foundation for several international brands and rollouts.

Technologies: Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, Vitest, Playwright, IAB TCF, Google Additional Consent, i18n, Git, CI/CD.

Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:

• Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
• Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
• Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
• Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
• Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters

Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:

• Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
• Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
• Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
• Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
• Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
• Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
• Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
• Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
• Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
• Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX

Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:

• Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
• Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
• Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
• Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management

Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:

• Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
• Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
• Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
• MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)

Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:

• Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
• Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
• Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level

Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:

• Analysis of current challenges
• Definition of overarching goals
• Development of a proposal for a new team structure
• Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
• Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy

• Designed and developed a high-performance internal resource management platform using React and TypeScript, optimizing dynamic data rendering and state management.
• Built a React Native application to support mobile access to internal tools, enabling on-the-go project tracking for field teams.
• Developed custom 2D canvas-based visualizations using Pixi.js to simulate material flows and refractory layer behaviors.
• Integrated Pixi.js with React components for interactive diagrams and real-time UI updates.
• Developed interactive 3D visualizations using React.js for displaying refractory product layouts and simulations, supporting engineering and sales teams with dynamic product previews.
• Integrated Three.js within the React ecosystem to allow manipulation of 3D models in real-time via browser, enhancing user engagement and field configurability.
• Integrated a headless CMS to enable dynamic content updates by non-technical users, reducing content deployment time by 40%.
• Led AWS CloudFront optimization initiatives, improving portal load speeds by 30% globally.
• Actively collaborated with cross-functional Agile teams and product owners to deliver prioritized features with a fast feedback loop.
• Key Technologies: React.js, React Native, Three.js, TypeScript, Contentful CMS, AWS S3/Lambda/CloudFront, Cypress, Agile Scrum

• Design and implementation of a Laravel backend API for provider-based geo search, feature details, boundary geometries and neighborhood detection.
• The API serves as a server-side proxy, cache and enrichment layer, protecting credentials for external geo services and persisting features, localizations, geometries, hierarchies and neighborhood relationships in MariaDB.
• Key areas included normalization of autocomplete and feature data, caching strategies for expensive boundary/polygon requests, spatial processing of GeoJSON and MultiPolygon geometries, as well as neighborhood detection using hierarchies, bounding box filters and topology checks.
• Additionally, separate production and diagnostic endpoints were created, along with status and error catalogs, discovery logging, a Docker development stack, API documentation, and unit and feature tests.
• Technologies: PHP 8.3, Laravel, REST API, geo data API, GeoJSON, MariaDB Spatial, Eloquent, Laravel Queues, PHPUnit, Mockery, Docker, Docker Compose, API design, geocoding, boundary data, spatial queries.

• Did a complete rewrite of centrotherm.de with Next.js, migrating from Gatsby
• Built a system to automatically generate printable product datasheets
• Technologies: React, TypeScript, Storybook, SASS, Next.js, I18n