Alfred Bez
Engineering Manager at Kaufland e-commerce
Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany
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Top SchoolAlfred Bez is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling high-availability e-commerce and platform systems, currently leading engineering at Kaufland e-commerce. He combines hands-on technical leadership—remaining in on-call rotations and driving architectural decisions—with a track record of dramatic operational improvements, such as cutting CI build times from 45 to 5 minutes and reducing critical production defects by 95%. Alfred excels at platform architecture, database and performance optimization, and event-driven systems while fostering psychological safety, developer ownership, and blameless post-mortems across distributed teams. He has driven org-wide engineering practices like ADRs and docs-as-code, built GitLab API tooling to surface static analysis in merge requests, and contributed cleanup fixes to popular projects like OXID eShop CE. Based in Bremerhaven, Germany, he prefers solving real-world bottlenecks through workshops and hackathons that both improve systems and upskill engineers.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ausbildung zum Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung, Ausbildung zum Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung at Berufliche Schule für Dienstleistung, Gewerbe und Gestaltung Bremerhaven
German, Russian, English
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Github Skills (15)
ox10
php10
oxid10
ecommerce9
css9
html8
http6
ssl6
npm6
nodejs6
javascript6
jquery6
indexof6
lastindexof6
command-line6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
OXID-eSales/oxideshop_ce
Oct 2013 - Dec 2020
OXID eShop CE component
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 122 commits, 128 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alfred primarily focused on improving the CSS and HTML structure within the OXID eShop CE component. Their contributions included removing duplicate properties, empty rules, and units for zero values in CSS files, leading to cleaner and more efficient code. Additionally, the user fixed a variety of typos and updated DocBlocks within the code. Moreover, the user addressed several code formatting issues.
ecommercephpoxid-eshopoxid-eshop-componentoxid
alfredbez/ab_htmlmin
Jul 2014 - Apr 2019
OXID module: HTML minify
Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 9 months
minifyoxid-modulejavascriptoxidminify-html
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