David Höck
CEO & Co-Founder at Vendure
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolDavid Höck is a founder and software leader with 9 years of experience who moved from mechatronics into building enterprise-grade commerce platforms. As CEO and co-founder of Vendure and CEO of Elevantiq, he helps Fortune 500s and high-growth startups adopt composable, open-core commerce and B2B platforms. Hands-on across the stack, he contributes to open-source projects like Vendure (improving Admin UI and theming) and Pimcore (back-end fixes and asset handling), blending front-end UX polish with backend robustness. His background in mechanical engineering and early work in manufacturing and IoT inform a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to architecture and process automation. Known for turning complex integrations into developer-friendly platforms, he favors community-driven solutions and dynamic theming to make commerce infrastructure more adaptable. Based in Vienna, he pairs engineering rigor with product intuition to scale digital commerce for diverse industries.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur Mechatronik Robotik und Automatisierungstechnik, Ingenieur Mechatronik Robotik und Automatisierungstechnik at HTL Saalfelden
German, English
Stackoverflow
23reputation
2kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (36)
cms10
javascript10
jms-serializer10
admin10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
typescript10
uid10
php10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
typescripts10
admin-interface10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pimcore/pimcore
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
Core Framework for the Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 41 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the back-end logic and core functionality of the Pimcore framework. They added a getter function for accessing a private variable, which resolved an error in a script. Further contributions included replacing direct variable access with the getter function and fixing issues within the HardlinkController. They also enhanced asset management by generating public URLs through asset listeners.
cmsdata-experienceecommerceshopwaredxp
vendure-ecommerce/vendure
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
The commerce platform with customization in its DNA.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 3 commits, 35 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the Admin UI, refreshing the login user interface and improving its user experience. They added Unsplash attribution links, implemented system views and settings and improved the form structure within the dashboard. They also introduced theme variables for dynamic styling.
apiecommercejavascriptframeworkshopping-cart
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