Curriculum Vitae

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About me

I am a front-end engineer located in Greater Metropolitan area of Munich, Germany. I have fifteen years of professional experience in developing small to large-scale websites and web-applications based on webstandard technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. I worked with dozens of clients of various company and team size already and have extensive experience in leading teams and organizing projects with lean methods.

Contact

Anselm Hannemann
Hofmark 14
82393 Iffeldorf
GERMANY

info@helloanselm.com
GitHub Profile

Education

  • Abitur “certificate” (equals: high school diploma) at Jakob-Brucker Gymnasium Kaufbeuren, Germany
  • Self-taught web development knowledge
  • Regular attendee and speaker at conferences
  • Certified Scrum Master since 2017

Social commitment

  • Civilian service at LMU university clinic, Cardiology dpt. in Munich, Germany as medical assistant and IT manager (September 2009 - May 2010)

Work History

  • November 2007 - December 2011: Founded 2 person design agency, transformed to my own business in 2011
  • March 2011 - January 2014: Freelance Advisor for Web Technologies at 2issue digital publishing GmbH
  • May 2011 - 2015: Co-Founder and Organizer of PUBKON Conference
  • January 2012 - July 2013: Front-End Development and Tablet-Applications for Hubert Burda Media / FOCUS Magazin Verlag
  • December 2012 - May 2013: Front-End Development for SAP Datacenter in partnership with Hans-Christian Reinl and grasundsterne agency
  • January 2014 - October 2014: Front-End Developer at Vaillant Group
  • July 2014 - September 2015: Co-Organizer of NightlyBuild.io conference
  • April 2016 – August 2016: Wireframe and Front-End Prototype Development for Sahana Disaster Management Foundation
  • November 2016 – May 2017: Front-End Development for Greenpeace International
  • January 2018 – May 2019: Front-end architecture and development for Adverma agency
  • December 2014 - March 2020: Front-End Consultancy, Development for LaterPay
  • January 2019 – March 2020: Engineering & Delivery Management for LaterPay
  • May 2017 – 2021: Co-founder and developer of Colloq, a event management and knowledge discovery platform.
  • December 2011 - now: Freelance web designer and engineer
  • August 2022 – February 2023: Satellite Transformation Project at Siedle
  • November 2022 – March 2023: Frontend Architecture and Frontend Engineer (React, TypeScript) at Testo
  • April 2023 – now: Scrum Master at Testo

Organizing

  • Co-Organizer of the international web development conference NightlyBuild in Cologne (2014 –2018)
  • Former founder and co-manager of PUBKON Conference, Germany’s most popular publishing conference (2012 – 2015)
  • Former co-manager of the InDesign User Group Munich (resigned in 2014)

Awards / Rewards

Open Source & Community Engagement

  • Author of Web Development Reading List: Content curation, writing and development of a weekly newsletter and online resource keeping front-end developers up to date.
  • Regular writer for Smashing Magazine
  • Irregular author of articles for t3n Magazin
  • Core Developer of opendevicelab.com: A platform listing all Open Device Lab testing sites. Nominated as Game Changer Of The Year 2013 at netmag's netawards.
  • Initial team member of the RICG: Web standards group of the W3C for a standardized responsive images solution and now Element Queries.
  • Co-Author of INIT: INIT is an extension to HTML5 Boilerpalte with more structure for SCSS files and JavaScript, built upon Grunt.js, Bower and Karma helping developers to start a project more quickly.
  • Co-Host of the Workingdraft Podcast: One of the biggest German front-end podcasts influencing and educating the German developer community 2014 – 2018.
  • Writer for .net magazine / creativebloq and various other magazines / blogs

Speaking Appearances

Important client work

Expertise & Core Skills

  • Tooling / Workflow:
    • Git
    • npm, yarn, webpack, composer, Esbuild, Rome.tools, SWC
    • Unit, Integration, and End-to-end Testing
    • Automation: Continuous Integration with CircleCI, TravisCI, GitLabCI, Jenkins 2
  • Architecture:
    • Coding Conventions and Guidelines: HTML, CSS (BEM, ITCSS), JavaScript
    • Component-based development
    • Performance-budget driven development
    • Agile driven development
  • Development:
    • HTML
    • CSS, Sass, PostCSS, various CSS-in-JS libraries
    • JavaScript / ECMAScript
    • Responsive Development (includes on device remote debugging and testing)
    • Accessibility
    • Performance optimization and debugging
  • Project Management:
    • Remote Working (also in large teams)
    • Agile Scrum (had the certification Scrum Master in the past)
    • Agile Kanban
    • Team building