Summary
Dominik Habersack is a pragmatic Product & Technology Lead and founder with 12 years of experience building and improving web products from prototype to production. Currently leading product and tech at Süddeutsche Zeitung Dossier while running fn teach, he blends hands-on front-end engineering, UX design, and product strategy to deliver measurable improvements in performance and developer velocity. He’s skilled at untangling legacy constraints—moving slow APIs to client-side search and incrementally refactoring coupled codebases to avoid costly rewrites. As a teacher and maker, he documents and shares his methods through courses and articles, deliberately empowering teams to work faster and more confidently. His background includes leading cross-functional teams, running design sprints, and acting as Scrum Master, which helps him translate stakeholder needs into pragmatic engineering choices. Based in Bavaria, he pairs startup agility with newsroom-scale product thinking and a habit of shipping small, high-impact changes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
German, English