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 (160)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Schepp/schepp.dev
May 2019 - Jun 2022
My personal site
Contributions:296 commits, 1 PR, 327 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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Schepp/imagery-on-the-web
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Using images on a website is pretty straightforward, right? It's using an <img> element or a CSS background and then have them display a JPG, PNG or SVG. And that's it. Or is there more to it than that? Well, yes, there is. And it's a truckload full of possibilities.
Contributions:70 commits, 22 pushes in 7 months
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