David Neustadt is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping backend architecture and feature development at Shopware, a prominent open commerce platform based on Symfony and Vue. He combines deep PHP/Symfony expertise with practical product sensibilities earned across startups and agencies, moving from junior full-stack roles to lead and principal positions. His open-source contributions to Shopware 6 focus on robust backend improvements—entity listing, message queue handling, and storefront theme compilation—highlighting a knack for reliable platform-level changes. Based in Lower Saxony, Germany, he pairs a design-oriented academic background with hands-on engineering, which helps him bridge UX-aware decisions and scalable backend systems. Colleagues value his steady delivery on complex e-commerce concerns and his ability to improve developer-facing internals that benefit a broad community.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Kommunikationsdesign, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Kommunikationsdesign at Aachen University of Applied Sciences - FH Aachen
Abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung Staatlich geprüfter Gestaltungstechnischer Assistent, Abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung Staatlich geprüfter Gestaltungstechnischer Assistent at Richard Riemerschmid Berufskolleg
Shopware 6 is an open commerce platform based on Symfony Framework and Vue and supported by a worldwide community and more than 1.500 community extensions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:24 reviews, 220 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including implementing new features and addressing bug fixes within the Shopware 6 e-commerce platform. They implemented changes to the administration's entity listing, incorporating events for item deletions. Furthermore, the user worked on the Storefront area, adding events for concatenated styles and scripts to the theme compiler. The commits also include modifications in the area of message queue handling, particularly regarding administration message consumption.
Shopware plugin that allows you to record/log views and restore them
Contributions:7 releases, 23 commits, 5 PRs in 10 months
shopwarerestorepluginshopware-pluginrecord
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.
Request Free Trial
David Neustadt - Principal Software Engineer at Shopware