Marcel Gleeson
Principal Frontend Engineer at Babbel
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMarcel Gleeson is a Principal Frontend Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience designing and shipping polished web interfaces. He has progressed through multiple frontend roles at Babbel since 2018, now driving architecture and delivery as a principal while also maintaining freelance engineering practice since 2013. Marcel brings a strong design-first background—holding an honours degree in Industrial Design from RMIT and study at Delft—which informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to front-end systems. He has led teams and projects at CHE Proximity and balanced hands-on implementation with technical leadership across product and agency environments. Comfortable across the full frontend stack, Marcel excels at turning complex UX requirements into maintainable, scalable code and often blends prototyping intuition with production engineering. Outside of work he curates his professional presence at marcelgleeson.com.au, reflecting his ongoing interest in design-driven frontend craft.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Design, Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Design at Delft University of TechnologyBachelor of Industrial Design (Honours), Industrial and Product Design, Honours 1st Class, Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours), Industrial and Product Design, Honours 1st Class at RMIT University
English
Github Skills (94)
swagger10
code-generation10
faker10
codegen10
orval10
music10
angular10
open-api-v310
typescript10
react-query10
react10
msw10
rtc10
async9
yaml9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Marcel-G/keystone-graphql-next
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Marcel-G/sobaka-sample
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Web based modular synth
Contributions:1 review, 178 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 6 months
synthesizerrustweb-basedsvelteaudio
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