Led product development across emerging product lines for this enterprise B2B SaaS eCommerce platform, serving global clients including Lego, VW, Audi, Sephora, and ATM.

Key Achievements:

• Grew flagship product from €2M to €10M ARR (400% growth) in 3 years while successfully launching multiple new product lines
• Scaled product development organization from 40 to 70 engineers while maintaining high delivery velocity and code quality
• Implemented cross-functional collaboration model between engineering, product, and go-to-market teams that reduced time-to-market by 35%
• Established enterprise-grade SLAs and resilient architecture supporting mission-critical commerce operations
• Re-architected the platform to match the match the company patterns and changing market requirements
• >99.9% uptime and zero-downtime during Black Fridays even during high-growth and re-platforming

Founded and built a pioneering eCommerce Frontend-as-a-Service platform, taking it from concept to successful acquisition by commercetools.

Key Achievements:

• Architected and developed the entire technology stack (backend, frontend, infrastructure) for a composable commerce platform
• Grew company to 70 employees and €2M ARR before successful exit
• Secured major enterprise clients including Apollo, Flaconi, and Green Thumb Industries, becoming mission-critical to their entire online revenue
• Represented technology as part of the executive team in all investment rounds, consistently receiving the most positive feedback from potential and actual investors
• Led technical due diligence during acquisition process, resulting in successful exit
• Balanced technical innovation with practical delivery, achieving product-market fit in an emerging category

Founded and led software quality consultancy working with enterprise clients across Europe.

Key Achievements:

• Established Qafoo as the premier authority on software quality in the PHP ecosystem
• Delivered high-impact training and consulting services to engineering teams at companiesi, like Toyota Information Systems, Spryker, Shopware, & United Domains
• Regularly spoke at international technology conferences, positioning the company as thought leaders
• Designed and implemented infrastructure automation solutions for high-traffic platforms
• Created repeatable methodologies for technical debt reduction and quality assurance that became industry standards

Co-developed the first dedicated PHP application performance monitoring tool available as SaaS.

Key Achievements:

• Contributed to initial product architecture and development
• Helped establish sustainable business model achieving 10-25% YoY growth
• Supported transition to cash-flow positive operation by 2017
• Maintained strategic advisor role while focusing on primary ventures

Starting with developing and leading projects on top of eZ Systems Open Source Content Management System I eventually worked for them as a developer on the Open Source PHP component library eZ Components, which was the first test-driven project in the PHP ecosystem and was eventually handed over to the Apache Software Foundation.