Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Berlin, Germany · On-site

Jan 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

• Full-Stack Ownership:
• End-to-end feature development with ownership across design feasibility, frontend, backend, and infrastructure, using TypeScript, NestJS, Prisma, and GraphQL in a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Crawled and Integrated client data from source systems using Python.
• DevOps & Infrastructure: Spearheaded decoupling of the monorepo into shared packages for types and database schemas, significantly reducing Docker image sizes by 50%. Managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform, including Dockerized Lambda functions.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Established a robust testing culture using Jest, Cypress, and Chromatic, boosting code coverage from 50%-55% to 88%-90%.
• Initiative Taking: Drove the creation of a technical roadmap addressing the most pressing maintainability topics.

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Led a distributed team of 20+ engineers, including two engineering managers and a tech lead that lead teams of 5-8 engineers (frontend, backend & mobile).
• Mentored and grew senior engineers into filling leadership positions
• Decoupled engineering team’s structures to ensure well encapsulated and loosely coupled engineering teams that can deliver independently.
• Worked closely with lead engineers to set KPIs for our software (stability, performance) and for our engineering teams to locate workflow bottlenecks.
• Defined & aligned the hiring process across engineering teams & defining annual hiring plans in conjunction with the our head of Product in the context of cross-functional teams.
• Extended the engineering competency matrix to be more inclusive by having management and Individual contributor tracks for engineers to grow.
• Defined & aligned engineering onboarding process across engineering teams.
• Defined & aligned software quality across engineering teams.
• Fostered a culture of relentless improvement.
• Ensured company and department vision are understood and cascaded into our engineering teams.
• Monitored operational statistics, and reports trends, variances and issues.

May 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Built, grew and led a team of 5 frontend engineers from scratch into a self-managing autonomous team.
• Architected a modular Vue.js product that can scale based on best practices.
• Set up workflows that ensure quality, test coverage, constant integration and feedback loops.
• Set up engineering hiring processes and workflows from scratch.
• Constructed 1:1 meeting structures and led the development of my team members.
• Constructed a detailed and clear career framework that accommodates both IC & Management tracks to enable the growth of my team members vertically or horizontally.

May 2019 – Apr 2020 · 11 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Building and managing all aspects of the front-end team’s development, testing, and deployment within an agile continuous delivery environment.

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Feb 2018 – Apr 2018 · 2 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Internship as a frontend developer @ Finterra

Feb 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany