Erik Witt
Chief Product Officer At Speed Kit
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Witt is a product-focused technology leader and performance engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling web performance solutions from Hamburg. He has progressed through hands-on roles at Speed Kit—from Full-Stack Developer and Team Lead to Vice President Product and now Chief Product Officer—combining deep technical fluency with product strategy. Erik’s background in computer science (MSc) and early work as a Java developer underpin his expertise in full-stack architectures and NoSQL/data-store topics he’s presented at conferences. He writes about performance engineering and practical web optimization, bridging developer tooling and product decisions to accelerate real user experiences. Colleagues describe him as the kind of leader who still dives into code to unblock teams while shaping roadmap priorities.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Hamburg
English, German
Stackoverflow
2,948reputation
180kreached
47answers
17questions
performance-testing
top-5%
Github Skills (41)
webpagetest10
performance-testing9
sdk9
service-worker9
cropper8
preloading8
baqend8
javascript8
analyzer7
fetch7
react7
jquery7
serverless7
mongodb6
cli6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Baqend/transaction-performance-test
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Baqend/transaction-demo
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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