Alexander Merz

Frontend Engineer

At a Glance

💼5 Years of Experience
💪TypeScript & Angular
👨‍🎓Bachelor of Science
📍 Singen, Germany
🇩🇪German National
🇬🇧Fluent in English
🌐 Website
💻Open Source
📧 alex96merz@gmx.de

Career

Frontend Team Lead

October 2023 - Today

Full-time @ StudySmarter
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Frontend Engineer

December 2021 - September 2023

Full-time @ StudySmarter
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Frontend Developer

December 2020 - October 2021

Contractor @ Continental
Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
IT Consultant

November 2020 - October 2021

Full-time @ BCM Solutions
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Working Student

September 2018 - July 2020

Part-time @ BKK Linde
Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
B.Sc. Business Information Systems

March 2017 - August 2020

Final Grade: 1.6 (GPA 3.3)

Certificate of Graduation

Hochschule Furtwangen
Furtwangen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Tech Stack

HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript
TypeScript
Angular
Ionic
RxJS
React

SCSS
Bootstrap
Jest
Cypress
NgRx
Node.js
Express
Java
SQL
MongoDB
Git
npm
Vite
Stencil
Lit

Projects

StudySmarter

Frontend Engineer
Munich
12/2021 - Today

Angular
TypeScript
Ionic
RxJS

After gaining experience as a Consultant, I sought the opportunity to join a diverse team of developers at a promising software company. Motivated by the prospect of working in a thriving scale-up environment and relishing the flexibility of remote work, I was enticed by StudySmarter. The opportunity to contribute to a substantial codebase, while collaborating with an international product team, solidified my choice. As a member of the Growth team, focused on user conversion and reactivation, I collaborate closely with Product Management, Designers, Quality Assurance and my fellow 3 to 4 developing peers. I have been instrumental in developing and maintaining features like Authentication, Onboarding, Contextual Tutorials and a notification-based study plan. Lately, I am working closely with our Website Engineers to provide a seemless sign-up experience to our users.

Flash Gordon

Continental

Frontend Developer
Frankfurt
12/2020 - 10/2021

Angular
TypeScript
RxJS
Blockly

My very first acquisition talk as a Consultant was a success: I landed a project agreement with Continental in Frankfurt. By the end of 2020, I joined the development team of three people through the Weber GmbH. The project's goal was to industrialize flash processes of ABS. In other words: bringing the "Flashing" of ECUs to the production line. As the team's only Frontend Developer, I was in charge to create an Angular application from scratch. The Flash Line View is meant for the production workers to monitor and steer the Flash process in realtime. The central pillars of the app are a bidirectional communication via SignalR web sockets and a reactive programming paradigm in the Frontend. Blockly was integrated and extended with custom blocks to enable workers to author flash process scripts.

Norova Analytics

Hochschule Furtwangen

Thesis
Furtwangen
03/2020 - 08/2020

React
TypeScript
Node
MariaDB

As a part of my bachelor thesis I developed an analytics software for the research project NorOvA . The project is a collaboration between the VSB an the Hochschule Furtwangen. It aims to evaluate student's mobility patterns in rural areas to derive lasting optimisation measures for public transportation. Students were able to track their way to and from their university by means of a mobile app provided by the research team. Upon my arrival, the team faced the challenge to utilise their rapidly growing database for effective data analyses. Within the next six month, I independently worked on a Full Stack solution, tying together complex SQL queries and a web-based visualisation of geographic information. NorOvA Analytics is capable to depict routes on an interactive map, powered by Leaflet. Moreover, analysts can delimit their results spatially by drawing vectors on the map (image).

eCommerce

J&M Angeln

Freelancer
2019 - 2020

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Node
MongoDB

Alongside my studies and part-time job as a [working student](/#bkk-linde), I sought my first project as a freelancer. I was hired by J&M Angeln to build their mobile first website and online shop. With more than 25,000 subscribers, J&M Angeln is one of the fastest-growing and widely-known fishing channels in Germany. Frequent exchanges and short feedback loops helped to shape the product to the client's needs. An integrated video player fetches data from the official YouTube API to provide direct access to the channel's latest videos. Product information are stored in a MongoDB database whereas the server is purely written in JavaScript. The shopping cart and ordering process are build from scratch. The website was launched in August 2020 and discontinued in July 2023 due to the channel's increasing inactivity.

eServices

BKK Linde

Working student
Singen
09/2018 - 07/2020

Angular
TypeScript
Java

My career as a web developer began in the late sommer of 2018. The IT department of BKK Linde was in midst of their digitalisation efforts. The focal point was to transition existing services to their collection of eServices to reduce postage costs. An external consultant and I formed a tandem for that matter. My resposibilities lied in the development of a generic form application to determine the insurance state of our customers. On top of that, I was briefed to connect the app to various APIs of third-party service providers, including Pimcore and Foxdox, and enter server side business logic into a BaaS platform called EASY Apiomat. After the consultant left the project, I took full responsibility to further develop the app.

Coding

Consulting

Developing

Programming

Documenting

Enthusiastic

Responsible

Organised

Creative

Testing

Quality

Agile

Alexander Merz

Frontend Engineer

At a Glance

Career

Frontend Team Lead

Frontend Engineer

Frontend Developer

IT Consultant

Working Student

B.Sc. Business Information Systems

Tech Stack

Projects

StudySmarter

Flash Gordon

Continental

Norova Analytics

Hochschule Furtwangen

eCommerce

J&M Angeln

eServices

BKK Linde

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