Manuel Selbach is a facilitator and seasoned software professional with 11 years of experience bridging hands-on backend development and team leadership. Based in Frankfurt, he has led development teams at agencies and product firms and contributed to the TYPO3 CMS core—adding features, fixing bugs, and modernizing backend routes and database usage. More recently he has shifted into New Work, agile and systemic coaching, combining certified coaching credentials with practical delivery experience to help teams transform how they work. He teaches adult education modules and serves as a facilitator at M3K while remaining active in professional networks like BNI. Manuel’s background as a developer-turned-coach gives him a rare perspective: he understands both code-level tradeoffs and the human systems that enable high-performing engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Fachrichtung Anwendungsentwicklung, Fachinformatiker Fachrichtung Anwendungsentwicklung at IBF GmbH
Certified New Work Consultant and Agile Coach (EN ISO/IEC 17024, Certified New Work Consultant and Agile Coach (EN ISO/IEC 17024 at MESH® ACADEMY
Systemische Kompetenz für Führung und Kommunikation, Systemische Kompetenz für Führung und Kommunikation at Institut Engel
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:72 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the TYPO3 CMS core by implementing new features and resolving bug fixes. Their work includes making the `stdWrap_bytes` configurable via TypoScript, which enhances file size handling. Additionally, the user removed an internal constant and addressed a PHP warning related to RTE classes. The user also added backend routes for wizards and refactored code to use prepared statements.
Contributions:6 reviews, 16 PRs, 97 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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