Björn Kraus
CTO at PHOENIX MEDIA GmbH
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolBjörn Kraus is a seasoned CTO with over 11 years in technology leadership and a longer career in web development, currently steering PHOENIX MEDIA from Stuttgart while specializing in eCommerce and performance optimization. An Adobe Certified Master and Magento Commerce Architect, he blends deep platform expertise with hands-on engineering—improving front-end performance, SEO and caching for projects like the popular Vue Storefront. He is equally comfortable shaping technical strategy and diving into code-level improvements that raise Lighthouse scores and real-user experience. Known for pragmatic optimizations (from cache-control headers to font sizing) that deliver measurable business impact, he thrives on making complex commerce systems fast and reliable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergEberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
German, English, English, German
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
nuxt10
front-end-development10
vue10
typescript-types9
pwapp9
typescript9
typescripts9
css8
html8
ecommerce8
caching7
kubernetes-helm6
kubernetes6
kubectl6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vuestorefront/vue-storefront
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Alokai is a Frontend as a Service solution that simplifies composable commerce. It connects all the technologies needed to build and deploy fast & scalable ecommerce frontends. It guides merchants to deliver exceptional customer experiences quickly and easily.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Björn primarily focused on improving the user interface and performance of the Vue Storefront application. Their contributions included optimizing Lighthouse scores by modifying the default font size and adding meta descriptions. They also implemented cache-control settings for static assets and addressed page-not-found status codes, improving the application's SEO and overall user experience. Furthermore, the user made minor code adjustments, such as merging if statements and switching to const.
cmsstripeecommerceshopwarenuxt
PHOENIX-MEDIA/magento-mediastoragesync
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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