Andreas Pätzold
Frontend Developer at contentful
Weitnau, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Pätzold is a frontend developer with 11 years of experience building polished UI/UX and integrating e-commerce and backend services from his base in Weitnau, Bavaria. He combines strong TypeScript and React expertise with practical full-stack work, shown by contributions upgrading Firebase v9 hooks and migrating Contentful apps to App SDK v4. His open-source footprint includes fixes and type definitions in high-profile repos like DefinitelyTyped and react-helmet-async, reflecting attention to compatibility and developer ergonomics. Andreas is comfortable refactoring large codebases—renaming shared packages, updating build scripts, and handling nuanced feature flags like hideSearch—to keep projects maintainable. Trained at IT-Universitetet i København, he pairs disciplined engineering with the mindset of an athlete, bringing persistence and iterative improvement to complex front-end challenges.
11 years of coding experience
IT-Universitetet i København
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
typescript10
type-definition10
firebase-storage10
typescript-types10
firestore10
typescripts10
firebase10
react10
pdf9
google-apps9
helm9
android-app9
application9
monorepo8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/apps
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Apps on the Contentful Marketplace and resources to build them
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:273 reviews, 87 commits, 186 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily worked on the Contentful apps repository, contributing to various aspects of app development, including UI/UX and integration of e-commerce features. They made significant refactoring efforts by renaming and relocating shared packages, updating dependencies, and fixing build scripts. Furthermore, the user also added a feature to handle the 'hideSearch' option and migrated to using App SDK v4.
cloudinaryimage-focal-pointsmartlingfrontifycapistrano
CSFrequency/react-firebase-hooks
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
React Hooks for Firebase.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on upgrading the project to Firebase v9, modifying various React hooks that interact with Firebase services such as Firestore, Storage, Authentication, and Realtime Database. These upgrades involved significant code changes across multiple files, demonstrating a strong understanding of the Firebase ecosystem. The user also updated the underlying dependencies and adjusted code to account for API changes within the Firebase SDKs.
firebase-cloud-storagefirebase-databasefirebase-firestorefirebase-functionsreact-hooks
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