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Established a WordPress development team, conducted development and performance reviews, and actively supported the personal growth of team members. Led the technical development of various PHP and WordPress projects, served as the liaison between teams and departments, and contributed to the design of agile processes. Acted as a sponsored member of the WordPress Hosting Community and initiated and managed IONOS's involvement in WordPress.org's "Five for the Future" program.
Technical lead for a five-person development team, serving as Scrum Master and facilitating daily Scrum meetings. Led the development of a social advertising network featuring detailed statistics for advertisers and site operators. Also developed various high-traffic, data-optimized widgets.
ekaabo GmbH
Weinheim
Dec 2012 - Feb 2014
Responsible for migrating the YiGG social news system to ekaabo GmbH's servers and automating the new deployment processes (CI/CD). Enhanced loading times through caching and SQL query optimization. Designed and implemented a redesign with a focus on standards like HTML5 and various web semantics.
ekaabo GmbH
Weinheim
Sep 2008 - Jun 2011
Conceptualized a meta-community featuring a universal login system, cross-network address book, and central activity stream. Provided technical leadership to a team of four developers while actively contributing to backend development.
SemPress is an extremely lightweight, responsive WordPress theme designed to show off your posts, quotes, and images. SemPress supports multiple post formats, widgets, and the option to upload a custom header or background image. The theme is based on HTML5 mixed with microformats, microformats v2 and microdata (Schema.org).
The OpenWeb Icons is a web-font that gives you scalable vector icons/logos of some open communities, standards or projects. It includes the Creative Commons-, HTML5- and Microformats-icons for example.
notiz.brick
Vor zwei/drei Wochen bin ich zufällig über brickomattic.com gestolpert (warum hat mir bisher niemand davon erzählt) und hab nicht widerstehen können! Und nachdem ich (nach gefühlten Wochen) die bestellten Teile...
https://notiz.blog/2026/10/09/notiz-brick/
Wer sieht schon gerne XML?
Ich habe bei Dave Winer gelesen, dass XSLT aus den Browsern entfernt werden soll. Ich habe gerade alle XML Formate die ich in WordPress finden konnte, mit XSLT aufgehübscht und...
https://notiz.blog/2026/10/07/wer-sieht-schon-gerne-xml/
