Work

Selected projects from the last years. Clients are described by sector rather than named.

Accessible design system for the public sector

Large German public-sector organisation, 2020 – 2022, since 2025. Senior web developer, first via a consultancy, now freelance

The organisation runs many applications for citizens and staff, built by different teams on different frameworks. A shared design system gives them one consistent, accessible look and feel, and it has to meet BITV 2.0 and WCAG 2.1.

  • Building accessible, framework-agnostic web components with StencilJS, TypeScript and CSS
  • Testing with the JAWS screen reader and Windows high-contrast mode, and accompanying BITV acceptance tests
  • Reviewing and supporting teams that integrate the components into Angular, React and Vue applications
  • Shaping architecture decisions and improving the developer experience, documentation and Storybook
  • Securing quality with code reviews, test automation and CI/CD pipelines

Technologies: StencilJS, TypeScript, Storybook, axe-core, Playwright, Jest, Pact, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Enterprise design system across three frameworks

Global market research company, 2022 – 2025. Lead frontend engineer

Product teams across the company built on Angular, React and Vue. A framework-agnostic design system gave all of them a consistent, accessible and long-lived UI foundation.

  • Developing accessible web components with StencilJS, TypeScript and CSS, conforming to WCAG 2.1
  • Defining UI architecture standards together with UX and developer-experience teams
  • Supporting and reviewing integration in Angular, React and Vue projects
  • Writing documentation and developer guides in Storybook and Confluence
  • Running the CI/CD pipeline with GitLab CI and SonarQube

Technologies: StencilJS, TypeScript, Storybook, Jest, Pact, axe-core, Playwright, GitLab CI, SonarQube

Modernising a business-critical data warehouse application

Global market research company, 2022 – 2025. Senior frontend engineer

The company's central data management ran on an ageing desktop application written in Visual Basic 6. It was rebuilt as a web application, with key user workflows redesigned for the web together with UX.

  • Building the new frontend with Angular, accessible, fast and responsive
  • Developing a Node.js backend-for-frontend
  • Unit tests with Jest, contract tests with Pact, accessibility checks with axe-core, end-to-end tests with Playwright
  • Maintaining the GitLab CI/CD pipeline and running the application on Kubernetes

Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, Jest, Pact, Playwright, GitLab CI, Kubernetes

Master data system for an automotive manufacturer

Automotive manufacturer, via a consultancy, 2018 – 2020. Frontend lead

A large, multi-team project built a scalable master data system that supplies many consuming systems, using the CQRS pattern to separate reads from writes.

  • Leading feature development of the Angular user interface
  • Defining UI coding and architecture standards used by all teams
  • Advising and reviewing neighbouring teams' work
  • Contributing to the Java backend

Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, Java, CQRS, Jest

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