Hi wonderful people, my name is Simon. I love all things digital. I enjoy building digital products with a team to help other people. To build means for me the entire spectrum from ideation, conceptualization, product management to actual coding and deployment.
Mostly based in: 🥨 Munich
How to reach me: ✉️ message me here on LinkedIn
Tell me: 🌟 How you found your purpose and profession
📌 currently ...
- building a Google Chrome Extension to foster a better climate in online discussion sections for my master thesis (Google Chrome Extension, TypeScript, webpacker, React, Perspective API)
⚓️ completed ...
- led the development (with Ruby on Rails) of a short story submission platform for a literature competition named Zukunftschreiben
- designed and implemented (with WordPress) a new website for the student union Wasti
- managed healthcare software as Interim Product Manager at Climedo
- built and tested front-end code as Software Engineering Intern (mostly Angular) at Climedo
- conceptualized and developed a prototype to digitalize documents on construction sites at InnoBau together with an amazing team at the CDTM
- JavaScript (with TypeScript) for frontends and backends 🦄
- Ruby for nostalgia and because it was my first language 🍼
- Python for all sorts of data magic 🐍
- Java for strictness 💾
ohh and of course ...
- HTML
- CSS
and I speak ...
- 🇺🇸 English
- 🇩🇪 German
- expressJS for quick and flexible backends
- Ruby on Rails for rapid prototyping (rarely used anymore)
- noSQ (mongoDB) for flexible databases
- SQL (postgreSQL) for strict databases
- npm for managing all these dependencies
- React for modern web applications
- Angular for extensive web applications
...
- Git because alone we are so little
- Heroku for deployment
- Selenium for testing and scrapping
- Protractor for e2e tests
- pandas for data stuff
- numpy for math stuff
- Material UI for styling like Google
- Bootstrap for styling like Twitter
- Ant Design for styling like Ants
- Visual Studio Code for coding
- Google Chrome for everything
- Terminal for nerding around
...
- Figma for visual prototyping
- Notion for note taking
- Google Suite for collaborative work
- Postman because sometimes you got to test what you code
- Zotero for organizing papers from smart people
- Liquid Text for connecting scholarly ideas
- Slack because I like connecting to people
- Visiting Research Scholar at the School of Information
University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) - Honors Degree (cand.) in Technology Management
Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) - M.Sc. (cand.) in Management & Technology (with a minor in computer science)
Technical University of Munich (TUM) - B.Sc. in Business Administration
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Full Stack Web Development Graduate (Batch #142)
Le Wagon (Berlin) - Erasmus Semester Abroad
Warwick Business School (WBS)
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent