Christof Bauer

The space for positive change. Holi is an app that connects existing social apps and digital tools in one home. One codebase for iOS, Android and Web using a fork of the openSource social network Okuna as backend.

Bringing the beauty of Yoga to the masses. Yoga alliance RYT-500 and ERYT-200 certified teacher. Ashtanga, Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Pre-TTC trainings, Yoga for Martial Artists, Anatomy for Yoga, Pranayama

I have worked with JavaScript for over 20 years and always loved web development and the rapid pace of innovation. Seeing JavaScript becoming so ubiquitous over the last years is amazing and I really enjoy the current ecosystem. I am always on the search for interesting projects and am passionate about using my craft to make the world a better place. Other areas of interest include AI, Robotics, Blockchain, ... Skills/Tools: React, Node, Solidity, Smart contracts, NFTs, APIs, NextJS, Webpack, React Native

Xing is the LinkedIn of the German-speaking market, which I joined as Frontend Engineer for the Premium/ ProJobs team in 2014. Part of our tasks was the full rewrite of our frontend in React. In 2016 I switched to our newly opened Barcelona office to build up the new team. React, Ruby (on Rails), Perl, Git, TravisCI, Scrum, Kanban

G&J is one of the biggest publishing companies in Germany with titles such as National Geographics, Financial Times Deutschland and Stern. G&J hosted all its infrastructure in house and as part of G+J Digital Products I was responsible for keeping it all running, 24/7. Another task was to provide all dev and staging environments for the different teams, deployments, build chains, security, virtualisations, etc. Shell/Bash, Perl, PHP, VMWare, Apache, NGinx, IDS

Futura Epsis 1 develops creative experiences for brands, agencies, art curators, labels and musicians. I was responsible for all backend related tasks. One project was to develop a massive multitouch table, working with a beamer and resistive touchscreen, just before the iPad launch. ActionScript, PHP, mySQLi, Apache, JavaScript, jQuery

In early 2010 I joined the startup Trakken Technologies, becoming part of a small 3-person dev team. Main product was TrakkBoard, a SaaS solution for web controlling, a digital data platform, the analytics for marketers – built on cloud computing. Ruby (on Rails), PHP, Hadoop, jQuery, MongoDB, HBase

Looking for new horizons, I moved to Germany again where I partnered with a digital artist from Hamburg to build RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) with Flash as frontend and PHP as backend. Our clients were mainly digital marketing agencies and affiliates in Germany. ActionScript3, PHP, LAMP, Zend, AMF Clients: u.a. WMF, Sennheiser Communications, Mousse-T, Pritt

Founded in 2004 and expanding to the US in 2006, eSearchVision (eSV) was a German startup in the AdSense space. I worked in the Paris office as SEM Manager on ad campaigns for clients such as Apple, Scout24 and Filemaker. This was quite an intense, KPI driven environment, but at the same time very insightful to work in a truly international team with English as the main company language. AdSense, Analytics, Target CPC optimisation, Monitoring, Client pitches

Pangora was developing automated ad campaign tools for customers to run ads on Google, Yahoo and MSN. I first worked in Search Engine Marketing mostly for price comparison sites (buycentral.de, shopping.lycos.de...), optimising CPC/CPO for longtail search terms for our clients. I later joined the development team, where I worked alongside 2 very senior devs from whom I learnt a lot. AdSense, AdWords, CPC/CPO optimisation, Scraping Kunden: u.a. Apple, Staples, Scout24

I wrote my Master Thesis about building web shops within a company called mentasys, running the biggest online portal for gifts in Germany at that time, youSmile.de. I completely redesigned and rebuild the portal as practical part of my thesis. HTML, MySQL, PHP, jQuery