Frederik Schmatz
Co-Founder CTO at Artesa
Klein Schwaß, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFrederik Schmatz is a pragmatic technology leader and Co-Founder/CTO with nine years of experience building applied software products for industrial and craft sectors from Germany. He leads product and engineering at Artesa, delivering a digital planning board that simplifies job scheduling for tradespeople, while drawing on a long research background at Fraunhofer IGP where he transitioned from student roles to research associate. Hands-on in backend development, Frederik contributes to notable open-source projects such as FeathersJS, improving adapter tests, pagination, multi-update behavior and sorting efficiency—work that reveals a focus on robustness and maintainability. With an academic foundation in industrial engineering (M.Sc., Universität Rostock), he blends systems thinking, practical product delivery, and a penchant for refactoring legacy patterns out of codebases. Colleagues would note his knack for turning research insights into usable tools and his preference for clear, efficient implementations over clever complexity.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen at Universität Rostock
German, English, French
Github Skills (16)
typescript10
feathersjs10
adaptor10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
adapter10
testing10
pagination9
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
realtime7
application-framework7
web-framework7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
feathersjs/feathers
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
The API and real-time application framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 30 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Frederik primarily contributed to the testing and enhancement of the FeathersJS framework's adapter functionality. Their work included adding comprehensive tests for pagination and multi-update operations within various adapters. Additionally, they addressed specific issues, such as integer-based "NotFound" errors, and improved the efficiency of sorting algorithms. The user also made improvements to documentation and refactored code to reduce the use of lodash.
apirealtimebrowserreact-nativejavascript
fratzinger/feathers-casl
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
feathers.js + casl: hooks & channels
Contributions:17 releases, 1 review, 197 commits in 2 years
authorizationcaslchannelspermissionsnodejs
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