Senior Manager Software Development - Fidelity International - Frankfurt am main, DE
(2024-04 - 2026-06)
- Lead two engineering teams delivering Fidelity's End Investor digital platforms (Wealth Expert and Personal Investing), supporting €40bn in assets and serving over 500k German customers.
- Own end-to-end software delivery, improving delivery predictability by 25% through structured planning, technical leadership, and enhanced collaboration with Product Managers and Designers.
- Delivered the global digital account-opening application, enabling 10,000+ new customer on boardings in year one and increasing conversion rates by 18%.
- Introduced optimized development workflows, reducing PR review cycle time by 40% and accelerating overall engineering throughput.
- Redesigned CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time from 45 minutes to 9 minutes (80% improvement) and increasing deployment frequency by 3×.
- Implemented a robust on-call and incident management model, reducing MTTR by 30% while partnering with Product to align strategic roadmaps and improve stakeholder satisfaction by 20%.
- Built and scaled a new engineering team of five developers in Germany, reducing hiring time by 35% and increasing team delivery capacity by 40%.
- Conduct regular 1:1s and structured performance coaching, improving team engagement scores by 15% and reducing defect leakage by 22%.
- Created and executed detailed epic-level plans, achieving 95% on-time delivery across major initiatives and reducing cross-team blockers by 30%.
Manager - Web Portals - akf bank GmbH - Wuppertal, DE
(2023-08 - 2024-04)
- Led a team of 5 full stack developers that implemented the online post-box feature for our online banking applications which resulted in saving the cost of 4M€ per year.
- Direct responsible individual for enhancing the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline using GitHub Actions, end-to-end (e2e) using cypress, integration, and component testing using Jest for the frontend code base in the central credit platform.
- Improved application performance by 25% by optimizing LCP and FID metrics.
- Collaborated closely with the Design team to drive technical decision-making efforts.
- Collaborated closely with the BA and product manager to align product development with precise user requirements, facilitating the delivery of highly valuable solutions.
- Skills used - Web vitals, lighthouse reports, React, TailwindCSS and GraphQL.
Senior Frontend developer - akf bank GmbH - Wuppertal, DE
(2020-03 - 2023-07)
- Spearheaded the development and maintenance of the front end for the cost-allocation tool and sl-dashboard, leveraging React and material UI to create seamless user experiences.
- Implemented responsive design using HTML, CSS, and Sass that led to an increase in 15% user engagement measured through A/B testing.
- Worked on cross-browser compatibility resulting in seamless user experience across all browsers for different screen sizes.
- Actively mentored and coached junior developers.
Senior Fullstack developer - Qlaym GmbH - Düsseldorf, DE
(2019-01 - 2020-02)
- Orchestrated the successful migration of legacy Angular code, resulting in enhanced performance and streamlined processes.
- Established and implemented coding standards like GitHub Actions, pre-commit hooks, guidelines, and efficient workflows for seamless project execution.
- Worked with platform team to containerize application using Docker and added CI/CD pipelines.
- Developed and deployed API micro-services in Node.js and FeatherJS, contributing to the scalability and functionality of the applications.
- Authored mission-critical components, optimizing usability and elevating the overall user experience.
Fullstack developer - Qlaym GmbH - Düsseldorf, DE
(2016-04 - 2018-12)
- Built interactive dashboards with key indicators from client processes using highcharts using MEAN Stack.
- Boosted code coverage by more than 95% by writing unit tests in jest and enzyme to save development efforts.
