Albert Scherman
Engineering Lead at Shopware
Korschenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Scherman is an engineering lead with 11 years of experience building web applications and backend systems across ecommerce and travel tech, currently leading engineering at Shopware. He is fluent in PHP, MVC frameworks, Composer and Bootstrap, and has a strong background in WordPress, HTML/CSS and XML-driven integrations. Albert progressed from hands-on web and backend development to tech lead and principal roles at companies like Zizoo, trivago and real.digital, combining product-focused development with team leadership. Pragmatic about testing—an eager TDD beginner—he balances legacy system know-how with a curiosity for new tools and patterns. Based in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, he brings a dependable, StackOverflow-honed problem-solving style and a track record of shipping customer-facing features at scale. Not immediately obvious from titles: his career began in technical drafting and field inspections, giving him an unusually practical perspective on system reliability and operational constraints.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Certificate, Matric, Senior Certificate, Matric at Hoërskool Waterkloof
English, Afrikaans, German
Stackoverflow
2,352reputation
318kreached
52answers
186questions
Github Skills (180)
mvc10
payment-gateway10
online-store10
experience-manager10
excel10
prestashop10
rest-api10
paypal10
cakephp10
laravel10
validation10
magento10
nette10
psr-710
php-framework10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shopware/SwagExtensionStore
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
The integrated Shopware Store for Shopware 6
Contributions:35 reviews, 21 PRs, 137 pushes in 8 months
Bird87ZA/framework
Feb 2022 - Apr 2024
The Laravel Framework.
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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