CTO of a 50+ employees web agency, leading a 20+ person developer team, and actively working on Magento 2 and Shopware 6 projects.My responsibilities include, but are not limited to:* Setting the technical vision and mission for the company based on the company-wide values, vision and mission.* Developing and implementing the technical strategy for the company, taking into account the vision and mission, the needs of our clients and the trends in our industry.* Establish alignment between technical teams.* Create and maintain a continuous development program for our technical team (Career Ladder, Growth Framework) and associated competency matrix.* Lead and mentor the Technical Leads in our company.* Ensure the sustained development of the company-wide tool set, technical quality assurance and CI/CD processes.* Train and lead colleagues, so they can take responsibility and become leads for these areas themselves.* Provide technical leadership, architecture and programming for Magento 2 projects.

Development of TDD/QA/CI/CD processes, leading and management of a 20+ person developer team, architecting technical solutions, technical project management, Magento programmingI work with merchants from different industries, including:* dietary supplement* consumer goods* electronics* fashion / clothing* sightsPart of my job since 2009 is:* Development and maintenance of shops using Magento Enterprise and Community Edition* Technical project lead for projects with multiple people working in parallel both in-house and with third parties* Working with both B2C and B2B businesses* Working with both nationally and internationally operating retailers* Working with multi-website, multi-language, multi-currency sites* Building fully-fledged integrations to multiple ERP systems like SAGE Office Line or Mesonic Winline* Implementing search technologies like Solr, Doofinder or FACT-Finder* Building custom, innovative features for the respective industries* Establishment of version control for all projects, first with SVN and later Git* Establishment of a unified, simplified development workflow using Vagrant, VirtualBox and Puppet* Establishment of solid and unified build and deployment processes using Phing* Establishment of Continuous Integration (CI) and one-click deployment using Jenkins* Establishment of monitoring sites using Icinga* Introduction of automated testing (PHPUnit, Selenium)* Introduction of quality assurance using automated code metrics

E-Commerce projects with Magento Enterprise and Community edition, technical project lead and programming