Sander Mangel

As part of the academy team we focus on sharing information and enabling merchants, developers, and agencies alike to get the most out of Shopware. Through in-person training, insightful documentation, and engaging online content, we inspire people to deliver ever more engaging shopping experiences online!

Advising the organisation on daily operations, as well as online retail, and operating Professional Services teams

Leading a multidisciplinary in-house (remote) IT team to optimize and automate business processes, improve ecommerce capabilities, and bolster the stability of the internal application landscape.

At Dutchento we connect the Dutch ecommerce community from merchants to agencies and developers. We do this through events such as Meet Magento Netherlands, and Meetups, as well as through our bi-weekly Ecommerce Podcast.

At Bitbull I work together with clients to find the best solution for their e-commerce challenges. Based on requirements and business needs we create an innovative solution that drives online retail forward. Bitbull believes in bringing a pragmatic and innovative approach to technology for medium and large B2C and B2B e-commerce projects. At Bitbull I focus on • Presales activities • Solutions Architecture • Relation and network building

• I provide the architecture for e-commerce solutions for a diverse range of clients • Focussing on team building and skill development within the wider organization

• I've fulfilled a combination of roles for this Open Source PWA framework, a Polish software house focusing on eCommerce solutions, most notably Magento and Pimcore. • Liaising with agency and industry partners and helped shape various programs within the Vue Storefront. • Engaged for presales on various projects, while providing technical leadership and product evangelism.

Technology Leader and Evangelist at the top e-commerce Progressive Web App for Magento, Shopware and many more platforms -> github.com/DivanteLtd/vue-storefront

• I proactively helped to shape the architecture behind the product and set up a team of developers. • Built the first phase of the development aiming for a quick soft launch for the We Are Sure brand, which is the platform behind Sure, a tech startup in Insurtech building a product for freelancers.

• I rebuilt the webshop and back office in Magento and worked with an IT team to overcome challenges associated with fulfillment, payments, and reporting, as the company grew from 1 developer to 5 along with a QA and a Product Owner (internally and offshore). • Helped build the webshop that is used by over 100 admin users concurrently and a microservice architecture as a backbone supporting the various business processes from fulfillment to financial reporting and customer communication. • Providing development and leadership for this international company, which is active in over 16 countries and is subscription-based.

• I developed and maintained the Magento shop for various smaller and larger merchants in the Netherlands, ranging from mom-and-pop stores to market leader B2B companies. • Experius focused on B2B with complex integrations and enabled companies to translate their complex business processes into e-commerce applications.

• I worked as a Lead Developer for Redkiwi, a leading Typo3 solution provider in the Netherlands, while catering to the SMB market with affordable, high-quality webshops. • Handled project management locally in the Netherlands but outsourced the bulk of development to Romania. • Collaborated with a dedicated team of developers and built and maintained countless webshops, including a local music store, a merchandise shop, and one of the top three soccer clubs in the Netherlands.

• Worked with a custom-built CMS in Codeigniter for websites and OSCommerce for webshops. • Served as a proprietary application for greenhouses to manage energy production and consumption-based on metrics from greenhouse and energy prices. • Worked for smaller companies, developing unique concepts in addition to working for larger enterprises or clients like Ziggo, a telecom company, and Nuon, an energy company.