Fabian Blechschmidt
GeschĂ€ftsfĂŒhrender Gesellschafter at safefive
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFabian Blechschmidt is an experienced ecommerce engineer and founder with 14+ years building and maintaining PHP-based platforms, starting as a Magento developer in 2008 and now running Winkelwagen GmbH focusing on Shopware projects and Magento 1 maintenance. He combines hands-on backend expertiseâAPIs, deployments, database and plugin lifecycleâwith practical leadership as GeschĂ€ftsfĂŒhrer and partner at safefive, and explicitly prefers running his own ventures over traditional employment. An active open-source contributor, Fabian has improved core functionality in Shopware 6, enhanced Deployer recipes for Shopware deployments, and hardenings in OpenMage, showing a focus on platform stability and deployment reliability. Based in Berlin with a BSc in Computer Science from Freie UniversitĂ€t Berlin, heâs known for solving tricky backend edge-cases (like null-handling and HTTP/2 support) that often go unnoticed but materially improve robustness.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Freie UniversitÀt Berlin
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
debug10
deploying10
jira10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
jira-rest-api10
magento10
online-store10
jira-cli10
php10
api10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
webshop10
shopware10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
deployphp/deployer
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 12 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily contributes to the `shopware6.php` recipe within the Deployer deployment tool. Their work includes updating deployment tasks related to Shopware, such as database migrations, plugin activation, and theme compilation. The user introduced and refined functionalities for handling Shopware plugins, including ordering them by dependency, and addressed a critical issue in the deployment process by preventing deployments when no current path exists. They also contributed to core components like `Httpie.php`, implementing PUT and DELETE methods, enhancing the tool's versatility.
continuous-deploymentboxdeploymentdeployphp
OpenMage/magento-lts
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Migrate easily from Magento Community Edition in minutes! Download the source code for free or contribute to OpenMage LTS | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Fabian focused on bug fixes and improvements to the Magento codebase, addressing issues related to file handling, XML processing, and translation emulation. They contributed to core modules like Core, ProductAlert, and HTTP Client by fixing bugs and adding HTTP/2 support, reflecting a good understanding of the platform's internal workings. Their contributions improved the stability and functionality of the OpenMage LTS codebase.
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