Summary
Lars Girndt is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling e-commerce and enterprise software teams from Berlin. As Head of Engineering at nebenan.de and previously Head of Software Development at brands4friends, he combines hands-on architecture ownership with people leadership, product partnership, and technical feasibility translation. His background includes transforming legacy prototypes into robust, scalable shop platforms and coordinating distributed development across onshore and offshore teams. Comfortable across Java, distributed systems and logistics-related projects, he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainable architectures and team growth. Collected experience in both hands-on development and multi-team management gives him a rare ability to roll up his sleeves while shaping long-term technical strategy.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur Informatik, Diplom-Ingenieur Informatik at Technische Universität Braunschweig