Axel Tetzlaff
Senior Software Engineer at Statista
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolAxel Tetzlaff is a senior software engineer with 19 years of experience building and shipping robust systems across startups and large platforms. He co-founded a SaaS business serving SMBs and later scaled payments and onboarding architectures at Shopify, leading migrations from Rails to GraphQL/React and designing resilient, asynchronous integrations. At Shopify he also improved internal knowledge management using open formats and git, and mentored engineers toward promotions, showing a blend of technical depth and people leadership. Early work includes modernizing Java stacks for ESA and contributing to J2EE e-commerce projects, giving him broad exposure to varied tech stacks and industries. Based in Hamburg, he recently joined Statista and is selectively pursuing roles that align with environmental impact and sustainable missions while prioritizing family.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Wedel
German, English, French
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Github Skills (93)
vscode-extension10
search-interface10
axum8
angular8
cli8
figma-plugin8
user-identification8
sidekiq8
component-library8
ruby8
react8
typescript8
design-tokens8
shopify8
inbox8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FortySource/forty_facets
May 2014 - Dec 2022
FortyFacets lets you easily build explorative search interfaces based on fields of your active_record models.
Contributions:1 review, 74 commits, 7 PRs in 8 years 8 months
search-interface
axelerator/DerPreisIstHeiss
Jun 2015 - Mar 2021
Beispiel Repo für Objektorientierte Programmierungsvorlesung an der FH-Wedel
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
derbeispiel
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