About me

I am a front-end engineer located in Munich, Germany. I have ten years of professional experience in developing mid to large-scale websites and web-applications based on webstandard technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

Contact

Anselm Hannemann
Hofmark 14
82393 Iffeldorf
GERMANY

hello@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
• December 2011 - now: Freelance Front-End Developer & Architect
• March 2011 - January 2014: Freelance Advisor for Web Technologies at 2issue digital publishing GmbH
• May 2011 - now: 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 – now: Co-founder and developer of Colloq, a event management and knowledge discovery platform.

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

• Nominated and shortlisted as Young Developer of the Year at netawards 2014
• Nominated and shortlisted as Game Changer of the Year at netawards 2013 & 2014 with the project OpenDeviceLab.com

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
• 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

• “Deal with it! — The Story of Reconsideration” at MODXpo 2015 in Munich, Germany
• “Are we There Yet?” at WebTechCon 2013 in Munich, Germany
• “5 Things You Want for Responsive Development” at MODXpo 2013 in Cologne, Germany
• Speaker about “Responsive Images” at TakeOff Conference 2013 in Lille, France
• Lightning talk “Responsive Images” at Fronteers’ Jam session 2012
• Regularly invited expert for Adobe: Creative Winter – Brackets, Edge Reflow, Edge Inspect, Creative Summer and more
• Author of video2brain’s video trainings Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 mit HTML5, CSS3 und jQuery and HTML und CSS, featured in c’t 15/2012

Important client work

• Front-End architecture and research for Greenpeace International 2016 – 2017
• Front-End Development and Consultancy for LaterPay, doing a big front-end code refactoring and performance optimization 2014 – 2019.
• Front-End Development as Front-End Architect/Strategist for the Vaillant Group building a highly-scalable, modularized front-end workflow for a large team in 2014.
• Front-End-Development of the SAP DataCenter Website in 2013
• Co-Developed the FOCUS Magazin for iPad with 2issue in 2013
• Development of the FOCUS Magazin Teaser website in 2013
• Co-Developed one of the first iPad Magazines including full featured social sharing with 2issue and mag10 in 2011

Expertise & Core Skills

• Tooling / Workflow:
  • Git
  • Gulp, npm, webpack, composer
  • Testing: Unit testing with Jest, Karma and Jasmine, Integration testing Codeception
  • Automation: Continuous Integration with CircleCI, TravisCI
• 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, Styled-Components, Stylable
  • Responsive Development (includes on device remote debugging and testing)
  • Accessibility
  • Performance optimization and debugging
• Project Management:
  • Remote Working (also in large teams)
  • Agile Scrum
  • Agile Kanban