CV - Stefan Bauer, M.A.

WORK HISTORY

Remote, 12/2024 - today

Architected a micro frontend migration strategy, decoupling a legacy monolith to enable independent deployments and accelerate delivery.
Standardized frontend development across teams via shared meeting formats, streamlined processes, and unified coding guidelines.
Introduced company-wide AI-assisted engineering practices, integrating workflows that increased development velocity and improved code quality.
Improved change and release management as operations lead, significantly reducing deployment risk, downtime, and cross-team coordination overhead.
Defined and enforced company-wide engineering best practices as part of the technical enablement team.
Identified and resolved critical security vulnerabilities, strengthening system resilience.
Led a six-person engineering team in delivering new features across both the legacy system and newly developed services.
Mentored team members and provided hands-on technical leadership.

Remote, 02/2024 - 12/2024

Spearheaded the modernization of two large Symfony applications, enhancing performance and scalability while fighting technical debt.
Developed microservices and productivity tools using PHP, Node, and Go.
Coordinated version control within the developer team, ensuring seamless integration and reducing the amount of merge conflicts by almost 100%.
Managed project coordination with external collaborators, streamlining communication and project timelines.

Remote, 01/2022 - 02/2024

Designed and developed an in-house A/B tracking tool using Symfony and Vue.js, enabling more effective performance analysis.
Created microservices with Go and Node for an existing sales-tracking system, significantly improving data quality.
Collaborated with an external agency to set up a data warehouse including a sophisticated ETL pipeline and a custom analytics setup with Snowplow.

Berlin, 01/2020 - 01/2022

Designed and developed a landing page builder with Symfony, enabling a team of fewer than five people to maintain over 1,000 landing pages.
Created a highly efficient sales-tracking tool with Symfony, successfully tracking an 8-digit number of global sales to date.
Built an API related to said sales-tracking tool with express, allowing business partners to gain insight into their sales performance.

Berlin, 08/2018 - 01/2020

Developed a sophisticated product comparison SPA with Vue.js and GraphQL, helping users make well-informed purchases.
Built an elegant backend for said SPA with Symfony and EasyAdmin.
Created a robust in-house CRM tool with Symfony, streamlining workflows and improving data organization.
Built a lead broker platform with Symfony, facilitating efficient lead management and distribution.
Designed and developed a website builder template generator with Angular and Node, enabling rapid showcase creation.

Berlin, 04/2014 - 08/2018

Developed a product comparison website generator with CodeIgniter and jQuery that was the basis of more than 50 product comparison sites.
Built a web scraper with Node, which added thousands of products to these comparison websites.
Created an extensive tech magazine and three large health-related magazines using CraftCMS, providing engaging and informative content platforms for millions of German-speaking users.
Designed an embeddable checkout system with Angular, enabling e-commerce integration in almost any website.

Berlin, 01/2014 - 04/2014

Developed SEO blogs with WordPress, driving increased organic traffic and improving search engine rankings.
Created frontends for several insurance comparison websites, enhancing usability and user engagement.

Philipps-Universität Marburg

10/2010 – 09/2012 — Grade 1.5 (very good)

Focus on cognitive linguistics and web development

Philipps-Universität Marburg

10/2007 – 09/2010 — Grade 1.8 (good)

Focus on linguistic engineering

10/2012 - 07/2013