👦 Phil
"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst"
I'm a wholistic QA-Manager with backgrounds as Certified Agile & Knowledge Management Coach as well as Full Stack Tech Lead & Cloud Architecture and in E-Com / Payment, Mobility and Games Development. With Structure, Ownership, transparent Democratic Leadership and Continuous Improvement as driving values, I aim to tackle cross-cutting issues for lasting Impact at my client's companies proactively.
Working at Netlight for many years now, due to an awesome personal, supportive and knowledge-sharing driven culture. 💜
- Roles
- QA Manager
- Certified Agile & Knowledge Management Coach
- Full Stack Tech Lead & Cloud Architect
- Games Designer & Developer
- Domains
- E-Commerce: Checkout, Orders & Payment (PayPal, Stripe, AmazonPay)
- Mobility Services
- QA
- xUnit e.g. Jest | Int/API: Docker, Postman, OpenAPI, Supertest … | UI: Puppeteer, Selenium, TestCafé … |
- Load: k6 | Pen.: OWASP | DevOps: Chaos Monkey | Static: SonarCube, ESLint ...
- Mgmt: Jira, Xray, Zephyr
- TDD/BDD: Serenity, Allure, Cucumber, 3 Amigo Sessions
- Monitoring (alerts, metrics, logs, RUM, APM): Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Sentry.io
- Agile / Knowledge Management
- Software Eng.
- Domain Driven Design | Microservices | Event-driven: Kafka
- TypeScript NestJS |PHP Symfony | SQL, MongoDB, Redis... | (previously: Golang, React, Java, C#)
- DevOps / Cloud
- AWS
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab...
- Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio
- Games: Godot, StableDiffusion
- Quality & Detail
- Analysis, Planning, Structure & Coordination
- Creativity through Diversification
- Responsibility & Ownership
- Knowledge Management & Continuous improvement
- Democratic-Autocratic leadership style (lead by example but trust the team), valuing transparency
- Focus on Cross-cutting concerns
- Experience in many areas as well as democratic leadership ensures creative, innovative solutions
- Passion for knowledge sharing, structure and processes as part of continuous improvement ensures lasting impact beyond short term individual contribution
- QA focus pairs well with natural aptitude for detail, analysis, planning and structure
- Strong sense of ownership & responsibility ensures tasks can be entrusted, while transparency and risk management ensures bad situations are handled well
- Passion for continuous improvement and optimization drives proactive initiative
Outgoing links
I like to support my favorite products and services by linking, though I don't have any affiliate relationships with any atm
"Writing equals thinking" - Jordan Peterson
- 📈Personal development & Life
- Sports
- Calisthenics (Strength) at home with program from Calisthenics Movement
- Yoga (Mobility) with down dog - ideally short daily session
- Gymnastics/Tricking (Cardio/Skill) as long-term member of Free Arts of Movement "FAM"
- Habits & Goals: defining and tracking goals in 3 main areas "Physical/Mental Health", "Social/Romantic Relationships" and "Career/Business" every few months and using and reviewing daily "atomic"* habits/systems 2 to get there
- Learning/knowledge building: Maintaining a second brain 3 with Obsidian.md also this website (made with MkDocs) to ensure I don't forget but continuously build upon things I learn and experience by "writing stuff down", sharing and thus reflecting on it. Spaced Repetition 4 then automates the process of regular reviews for optimal retention
- Financial: strong believer in passive investing as the only sane, practical, time/cost efficient and not to mention scientific way to invest. Highly recommend the ETF-based globally diversified portfolio approach 5
- Psychology: I find it fascinating unintuitive the brain often works and thus how much there is gain from understanding it. My favorite concepts being:
- non-judgemental mindfulness 6 / meditation / ignoring "monkey brain"
- positive reinforcement via lofty questions 7 and future self/goal visualization, carrots and sticks for habits & commitment devices as well as momentum effect & getting started effect
- happiness through exercising, healthy eating and sleep as well, practicing gratitude and investing in relationships
- Sports
"Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." ― Dead Poet’s Society
- 🎲Tech & Fun
- Audio: really enjoy the immersive sound good 2.1 speakers can deliver (fan of Eve Audio) and owning more headphones than my flat has rooms - favorite ones still being some modded Koss Porta Pros, which also serve as warming ear pads in the winter
- Video games: nowadays I enjoy the never-ending technical and broad artistic challenges of (2D) video game creation with Godot often more than actually playing games. Though I still like to play old games e.g. from myabandonware.com/gog.com or newer retro and/or indie games for the nostalgic feeling and inspiration that either challenge my reaction/dexterity via action or thinking in turn-based strategy
- Physical Games: from >100 board games, park games from Speedball over Frisbee to Kubb or Mölkky as well as escape games with friends - I like to experience and analyze game mechanics in all shapes and forms
- 🛠️DIY
- Electronics & (light) engineering: e.g. power banks & solar stuff, smart home sensors, small electric tools like drills, wearable cameras for action recording, folding bedside TV...
- Repairing anything from household appliances over clothes to plumbing
- Artsy stuff, like small wooden/metal jewelry or lamps
- Furniture making & home improvement: I like to combine light wood and linen, black metal and artificial plants (even my indoor floor is artificial grass :D). Highly recommended: SketchUp free
- Food & Cooking, like to experiment in the direction of molecular gastronomy, also practising intermittent fasting; addicted to sweet stuff, thus e.g. making lots of DIY ice cream
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