Dennis Andrick

Leading Jimdo's product engineering teams with a wide range of domains, including Financial Services, web delivery, onboarding, SRE, Infrastructure, platform and security, responsible for over 30 managers and engineers. Worked closely with all senior mangers and the C-Suit to understand and break down the business plans to high level product roadmaps as part of the senior leadership. Improved collaboration within different departments from product, marketing, customer exp., finance, recruiting and legal.

Joined Jimdo’s financial services team responsible to build and maintain a new financial services solution within the company ecosystem. Interconnected to many different already existing services the new product was integrated seamless into the architecture following the company standards. Shaped and hired a talented team of experts from backend-, full-stack-, frontend- and mobile engineers up to 8 engineers to introduce the new product to our customers. Worked closely with other dep. to improve our service

Worked directly with the founders and built a new company from scratch, being responsible for the technology department. Filled many roles over the time, from engineering to mgmt. Laid the foundation with team setup, hiring, processes, roadmaps, budgeting, partners, development app/backend, architecture, platform, security, tools/apps and IT to successfully incubate the company with the founders. Evolved from the idea and concept with 4 motivated people to a successful company with over 120 employees.

Worked closely with the founders to translate high level expectations to a product roadmap. Responsible for the development team we delivered constantly new features to improve the product following the product life cycle.

Led and responsible for small and big technical projects within the company. Additionally provided solutions and integrations to monitor the success of the new integrated products and to understand the funnel. Introduced a new customer relation mgmt. application to support different departments with easy accessible information and view tailor-made for the specific needs. This solution supported the teams from customer-exp., quality assurance, software engineering and the managers to gather information.

Consulted and supported all departments creating and maintaining configurations. Introduced standards for attributes including naming, positioning and necessity, defaults and documentation. This helped massiv to improve the understanding of existing and newly created configurations. Provided together with the application development team a centralized tool to find, read, write, create and document configurations to reduce the overall time spent on these duties.

Responsible for the mobile services configuration for our clients and customers with over 1Mio different values. Worked closely with the engineers to support the creation of new configuration attributes. Introduced a sufficient way of improving the mainly manual created configuration with an automated self developed solution which saved the configuration time dramatically from days to less then an hour.

Worked on the core product with the senior development team, from early concept, user-testing and implementing to new meaningful features for the customers. Mainly focused to improve the usability for the customers and identify missing features for future development.