My name is Matthias, and I've been programming for 30 years now (started when I was about 7). Currently, I'm CTO at the 🇦🇹 web agency LIMESODA.
I love to help others and share learnings regarding Magento, web development and building & growing IT teams.
- 👷♂️ Currently setting technical vision and strategy, developing career ladders and compentency matrices, building IT teams
- 🕑 Establishing best practices and toolings regarding QA (automated testings, coding standard checks, bug detection, ... in PHP), virtualized and standardized development environments (Puppet, Vagrant, VirtualBox, ...), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) with Jenkins and GitLab, monitoring and alerting with Icinga and Grafana
- ✍️ Writing > 400 blog posts and articles on Magento 1 and Magento 2
- 🎤 Speaking at events
- 🤗 Founded and organized a Magento meetup (startet 2012, still going strong 💪)
- 📻 Being guest at podcasts
- 🎙️ Being interviewed for blogs and magazines
- 📓 Writing a > 100 A4 page translation of a Zend Framework 1 book
- 🏆 Winning Magento awards (personally) and e-commerce awards (with our agency)
- 🇦🇹 Born and living in Vienna, Austria
- 🥰 Blessed with my wife and baby girl
- 🐈 Cat lover
- 🍝 Quite obsessed with food
- 🎹 Loving music, even though I'm not playing the piano much anymore
- 🏃♂️ Some sports on the side
- Building and scaling e-commerce solutions
- Programming Magento and make best use of this complex piece of software 😄
- Building & growing IT teams (set vision, strategy and goals; create competency matrices and career paths; find the right humans)
- What it takes to be a good software developer
- What it takes to build working software