Axel Tetzlaff
Senior Software Engineer at Statista
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
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
Stackoverflow
1,355reputation
56kreached
72answers
4questions
Github Skills (125)
solr9
notification9
cli9
component-library9
cjs9
react9
inbox9
design-tokens9
vscode-extension9
activemodel9
react-modal9
angular8
figma-plugin8
sidekiq8
shopify-api8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
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
FortySource/forty_facets
May 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 review, 74 commits, 7 PRs in 8 years 8 months
solrrailssearch-engineactive-recordfields
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.