About me

I am a web developer, living in Frankfurt a.Main, Germany. I work as lead developer for the Dresden based pludoni GmbH. With my team, I plan, create and maintain several web-applications for our company.
Besides programming, I want to become a 中国通 (Zhōng gúo tōng = "Chinese comrade" = Chinese expert), meaning: a person who learns Chinese, practises Chinese in China and remains informed about the newest Internet memes.

Projects at pludoni GmbH

As the first technical employee of our company, I've build up all of our web-apps + infrastructure over time, trained new collegues, helped out key customers. I've managed the transition from a PHP based setup to Ruby on Rails standard software and I've introduced modern development practices such as Continuous delivery, TDD, DVCS, automatic deployment, security scanning. Thus, our company now enjoys a very high productivity per developer and is one of the most innovative HR / Recruiting companies in Germany with only a handful developers.

Our mission, at Pludoni, is to support small and medium sized local companies to find employees, in mainly IT and MINT sectors. We do so, by using a mechanism, we call 'Bewerberempfehlung' (applicant recommendation), where participating companies mention our websites in their rejections. In addition, very good candidates can receive an Empfehlungscode (recommendation code), which they can use on our platforms to apply at a different company.

More about pludoni's services can be found on our website.

Personal and Open Source projects

I try to use and contribute to Open Source as often as possible. Most of my running personal applications can be found on Github.

Some snippets are also found as Gists on Github.