Christian Schaefer
Head Of Design at sovanta AG
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Schaefer is a Head of Design with 16 years' experience leading UX for large-scale enterprise software and driving measurable impact for clients like Adidas, Audi, Bosch, LIDL and SAP. He combines strategic consultancy—defining UX strategy, KPIs and design operations—with hands-on execution building design systems and centers of excellence that scale across organizations. A former professor who created an interaction design program, he blends academic rigor with practical team-building, hiring and upskilling to raise UX maturity. Passionate about front-end performance and community, he co-hosts the Working Draft podcast and co-organizes conferences like Fronteers and CSS Café. He champions pragmatic, human-centered solutions in the AI era, warning against faster delivery of the wrong product and favoring durable, tech-informed design decisions.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), summa cum laude with highest distinction in Communication & Brand Management 1,1, Master of Arts (M.A.), summa cum laude with highest distinction in Communication & Brand Management 1,1 at Mannheim University of Applied SciencesSan Diego State UniversityBusiness Administration, Business Administration at University of Mannheim
German, English, French
Github Skills (121)
css-filters10
php-library10
box-sizing10
cookieless10
inlining10
js10
object-fit10
data-uri10
css10
wordpress-plugin10
microsoft-edge9
browser-api9
developer-tools9
google-chrome9
performance-analysis9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Schepp/HTTP-2
Jun 2014 - Jul 2019
20 years have passed since the IETF introduced HTTP/1.1. At the time web pages were still designed with tables and font tags and they had hardly more than four images per page in total. HTTP/1.1 was perfectly suited to this application scenario. For today's projects, however, HTTP/1.1 is a massive bottleneck. To compensate for its conceptual disadvantages, we developed build processes in which we bundle resources via concatenation, inlining or spriting. In addition, we rely on concepts such as domain sharing and cookieless domains. The good news is: HTTP/2 has arrived and puts an end to the disadvantages of its predecessor. And it is supported by all modern browsers. But it's not enough to just flip a switch. We need to rethink and throw established processes and concepts overboard if we are to get the most out of HTTP/2.
Contributions:47 commits, 22 pushes in 5 years 2 months
concatenationcookielessinlining
Schepp/schepp.dev
May 2019 - Jun 2022
My personal site
Contributions:296 commits, 2 PRs, 339 pushes in 3 years 1 month
reactnextjs
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