Andreas Klassen
Head Of App Development at ZEISS Group
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Klassen is a Head of App Development and seasoned mobile-first product leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling app portfolios for startups and enterprises, now leading app development at ZEISS. He has overseen 20+ smart-home apps at JUNG, grown an internal cross-functional team from 0 to 20, and established CI/CD, automated testing and beta pipelines to keep complex app ecosystems highly available. As a founder and CTO he launched over 15 native apps and games with more than 2.5–3 million users, and he advises early-stage startups as a business angel and mentor. Combining an MBA with a technical background in game development, he uniquely bridges product strategy, design thinking and hands-on engineering to reduce costs and increase app quality. Less obvious: he repeatedly blends prototype-driven lean startup methods with industrial-grade release engineering to move experimental ideas into robust, production-ready services.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Game Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Game Development at bib International CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computing Science - Game Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Computing Science - Game Development at Griffith College DublinThePowerMBA MBA Business Strategy Entrepreneurship Marketing Innovation & Digital Transformation, ThePowerMBA MBA Business Strategy Entrepreneurship Marketing Innovation & Digital Transformation at thePowerMaster of Business Administration - MBA BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MARKETING AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES, Master of Business Administration - MBA BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MARKETING AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (32)
lms10
plugin10
opencast9
react9
nextjs8
blitz8
prisma8
blitzjs8
material-ui8
full-stack8
javascript8
react-components8
typescript7
material-design7
angularjs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elan-ev/StudipMobile
Sep 2011 - Jan 2014
Contributions:45 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 4 months
stud-ipserves
aklassen/humdash
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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