Manuel Timelthaler

Big-picture thinking, execution of projects, and leveling up engineers.

Leadership of a team of 12 front-end/full-stack developers, distributed across 4 cross-functional Scrum/Kanban teams. Responsible for the extensibility/scalability and quality of front-end development at karriere.at, including people (recruiting, mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, …), process and technology.

Teaching “Hypermedia User Experience Engineering” in the “Interactive Media” program. Topics include JavaScript, front-end frameworks (mainly Vue.js), tooling (webpack, Parcel, …), Progressive Web Apps, client/server communication (REST APIs, WebSockes, NoSQL, …), GraphQL, unit testing, end-to-end testing, and other front-end development matters.

Technical leadership of a cross-functional Scrum/Kanban team. Responsible for code quality (security, performance, extensibility/scalability …), software architecture, stakeholder communication, technical concepts and technology evaluation, training and mentoring of fellow developers. Assistance in recruiting, onboarding and employer branding topics (open-source projects and developer blog; external talks, trainings and workshops …).

Development of a heavily search engine optimized component-based microframework – inspired by AngularJS, Ember.js, React and Vue.js; built with webpack, Babel/ES2015+, Sass (BEM) and SVGs – for the karriere.at platform, rendering Handlebars views in Laravel and hydrating the application on the client. Development, maintenance and migration of multiple (legacy) front-end projects using different technology stacks (Zend Framework, WordPress, AMD/curl.js, Grunt, …).

Supervision of a master’s thesis in the “Web Communication & Information Systems” program.

Development of a modular HTML/CSS architecture using SMACSS for the relaunch of bet-at-home.com. Development of animated/interactive HTML5 ads to migrate away from Adobe Flash, with browser support for every major desktop browser including Internet Explorer 6. Interaction design and development of a modular HTML/CSS architecture using BEM for the bet-at-home.com/mobile platform for smartphone browsers.

Creation of base meshes and textures in Maya and Photoshop for different building styles used for real-time procedural architecture. I had to make sure the meshes and textures were seamless, scalabe and interchangeable and compliant with the existing software.