Principal Web Developer — full-stack, with a designer's eye.
Eight years turning a one-person web setup into a scalable platform.
Leipzig / Chemnitz area, Germany · Remote-first.
A full-stack migration of Staffbase's entire marketing website from WordPress to a headless CMS — the most complex, highest-stakes project of eight years.
From the first deploy in 2018 to the global platform of 2026 — how staffbase.com's visual identity was built, unified, and continuously evolved across eight years of hypergrowth.
Three years leading the web development team — building the processes, career path, and standards that let a distributed team scale and deliver predictably.
From introducing Eleventy as the framework to maintaining a multi-region, multi-state event website across five annual editions — and keeping it consistent through two complete rebrands.
The right way and the fast way are rarely the same. Quality up front — clean architecture, clear conventions, documented decisions — saves far more time than the hours saved by cutting corners.
Every system I build is designed to outlast me — modular, documented, and ready for a team that hasn't joined yet. Scaling applies to processes, teams, and knowledge, not just code.
Honest feedback, delivered with care, is one of the most valuable things a colleague can give. Staying silent when something is wrong is always the worse choice.
Most problems are symptoms of something structural. Finding the root cause — and explaining it clearly — is the only way to stop the same issue coming back.
Doing a task for someone creates a dependency. Showing them how, documenting it, and giving them the tools to do it themselves creates capacity that outlasts you.
Stop resisting the waves — learn to surf them. Adaptability is a skill, and it gets easier the more deliberately you practise it.
Eight years building staffbase.com — from a one-person setup to the marketing website of a company whose product serves millions of employees worldwide. I joined as the company's first dedicated web developer and stayed long enough to see it through hypergrowth, acquisitions, and a full migration to a headless CMS. I built a lot of it by hand. I also built the team, the processes, the career track, and contributed to the long-term web strategy alongside the CMO and senior stakeholders.
Full-stack in the real sense: PHP/Symfony backends, JavaScript frontends, infrastructure as code, and headless CMS — with a designer's eye from years of building interfaces myself. I care most about building things that last: systems, documentation, and processes that outlive their creator and scale beyond one person.
Whether you have a role in mind, a project to discuss, or just want to connect — I'd love to hear from you.
Based in Leipzig / Chemnitz area, Germany.
Available for remote work worldwide.