Dominic Garms
CEO at The Geisha Tea House
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolDominic Garms is a Berlin-based technology entrepreneur and CEO with 14 years of hands-on experience building web and full-stack solutions while founding and running multiple companies. He combines product leadership at planet.training and DMFmedia with technical stewardship as CTO of The Geisha Tea House, bringing a pragmatic mix of business ownership and engineering. An active open-source contributor, Dominic has improved developer UX across front-end libraries (react-hook-form MUI work) and Nuxt/Apollo integrations, and has extended Firebase auth hooks to support advanced verification and custom claims. His background in sport science and IT from TU Darmstadt informs a disciplined, user-focused approach to product design and systems. Notably, he blends long-term consultancy experience for enterprises like Merck with modern JS ecosystem expertise, enabling both strategic direction and hands-on delivery.
14 years of coding experience
Diplom, Sportscience and IT, Diplom, Sportscience and IT at TU Darmstadt
English, Indonesian, German
Github Skills (26)
firebase-authentication10
javascript10
typescript10
nuxt10
material-ui10
wpgraphql10
apollo-client10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
typescripts10
firebase10
react10
multiselect9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dohomi/react-hook-form-mui
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Material-UI form components ready to use with react-hook-form
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 4 reviews, 202 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dominic's commits primarily focused on migrating and updating Material-UI form components for use with react-hook-form. They introduced new features like the `SwitchElement`, the incorporation of chip-based selections in the `MultiSelectElement`, and added the ability to read text input fields. Their work also involved code cleanup, adjusting the inputProps for the autocomplete component, and enhancements to the styling of date and time pickers, reflecting a focus on improving the UI and user experience of the form library.
reactreact-hook-formform-uimaterial-uireactjs
nuxt-modules/apollo
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Nuxt.js module to use Vue-Apollo. The Apollo integration for GraphQL.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 137 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily contributed to the integration of Vue Apollo within a Nuxt.js module. Their work involved modifying the plugin.js file to incorporate features such as prefetching Apollo data on the server-side, adding context to network interfaces, and updating the syntax for the .provide() method. They also added an option to include node modules for gql file recognition and integrated cookie support for authentication.
nuxtvuegraphqlnuxt-jsvue-use
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