Alexander Wink
Lead Backend Developer at dasistweb GmbH
Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Wink is a Lead Backend Developer with 9 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Shopware-based e-commerce systems, payment plugins, and third-party integrations. He combines strong analytical thinking and clear communication with a pragmatic focus on reliable, well-tested code, having contributed meaningful fixes and feature work to both Shopware 5 and 6 core repositories. As a technical mentor and sparring partner he has led international teams, run customer workshops, and driven CI/CD, Linux-based local dev environments and hosting optimizations. Outside work he channels leadership and team-building as head coach of a women's American football team—a role that reinforces his emphasis on reliability, coaching, and inclusive collaboration. Colleagues know him as a linux-loving, meme-connoisseur who keeps morale high while shipping robust backend solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
databases10
php10
vuejs310
shopware10
querying10
vue10
vuejs210
ecommerce10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
database10
mysql9
cms9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shopware/shopware
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 1.500 community extensions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Shopware 6 platform by implementing features and addressing issues related to the administration interface and core functionality. They added plugin description functionalities, including UI components and backend logic for displaying and managing plugin descriptions. Furthermore, they modified mail service functionalities by integrating events and interfaces, enhancing mail sending capabilities within the platform. The user also made changes to customer management, adding an email field to the customer definition.
ecommerceshopwareapifirstshopping-cartvue
shopware5/shopware
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
Shopware 5 core
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 14 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Shopware 5 core, focusing on PHP and Symfony. Their work involved fixing bugs, such as incorrect "emotions." references, and implementing improvements, including adding a "shopId" parameter to an event argument. The user also refactored code, moving queries to a QueryHelper class, and resolving issues related to data saving.
ecommercevisitprestashopjavascriptphp
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