• As lead developer, interfaced with partners and stakeholders and designed, implemented, and delivered a solution to integrate a partner's courses via SCORM Connect, which resulted in projected 300k-500k yearly revenue

• I "Informally stepped into the role of team technical lead", quoting my manager

• Designed, implemented, and rolled out a course authoring API for edx.org (https://studio.edx.org/authoring-api/ui/) that allows automatic creation of courses which increases revenue

• Senior Engineer responsibilities in the team responsible for course authoring at edx

• Development of features for edx.org, an e-learning platform with 40 million users, one of the top 1000 websites worldwide (https://learnopoly.com/edx-statistics/)

• Open-source maintainership and feature development within OpenEdx, a massive community (GitHub.com/openedx) powering thousands of education sites worldwide

• On-call incident response

• Led a team of engineers and content specialists to deliver an MVP to their first clients

• Planned and built an MVP on the tech and business side

• Created a business strategy that identified a target audience and persona and crafted an MVP that provided a solution to their market needs

Software Engineer for RTL News / rtl.de, a major German news platform with 200k-2M page visits per day.

• Created new Video Playlist feature that increased performance over previous tool

• Designed and implemented a Persistence / Cache storage layer for articles in MongoDB that significantly improved page performance, which increased page visits and thus revenue

• Implemented a range of frontend performance, Core Web Vitals, and SEO improvements that increased page visits and revenue

• Implemented new features for RTL.de that allowed us to reduce dependence on third party tools which lowered operating costs

• Tech consultant on the company's largest client project, a vendor portal, for a major international retail chain

• As a React expert, led the migration of the whole project from jQuery to React

• Proposed, designed, and implemented a React component library for the project that fully solved the migration problems and client complaints the team was previously facing

• Created a complex data table component that allows cell editing, versioning, commenting and revising

• Lead developer for a team of 3 over 2 months to adjust the vendor portal to the Asian market; drove work from client requirements to design and implementation, succeeded to client's satisfaction and finished earlier than planned

• Mentored the whole team in React, git processes, and Agile

• Proposed and shifted team to a hybrid SCRUM approach that replaced the earlier waterfall workflow and solved some significant issues in team efficiency