Martin Ficzel
Senior Back-End-Developer (Neos) at sitegeist media solutions GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Ficzel is a Senior Back-End Developer based in Hamburg with 14 years of experience, currently focused on Neos CMS development at sitegeist. He excels at simplifying complex systems and has a track record of shipping maintainable core improvements—refactoring site creation flows and enhancing routing commands in Neos/Flow. A Fusion enthusiast and toolmaker, he builds developer-facing utilities like Fusion.AFX and Sitegeist.Monocle and contributed a Flow deployment recipe and native SSH support to the widely used Deployer project. His background in project leadership and architecture gives him a pragmatic perspective on developer experience, deployment reliability, and long-lived codebases.
14 years of coding experience
Dipl. Ing. Architelktur (FH), Architektur, Dipl. Ing. Architelktur (FH), Architektur at Hochschule Anhalt
German, English
Github Skills (19)
url-routing10
content-management-system10
cms10
provisioning10
symfony-console10
fusion10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
cm10
cli10
ssh10
unit-testing9
phpunit9
api8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
neos/neos-development-collection
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
The unified repository containing the Neos core packages, used for Neos development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 297 reviews, 1134 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Martin refactored site creation functionality in the Neos core by separating it into three distinct methods: import, createPackage and import, and create empty site. This change improved code maintainability and addressed a previous implementation that supported three use cases. The user also added several methods to improve the readability and functionality of the content management system.
core-packagecontent-managementflowframework
neos/flow-development-collection
Nov 2011 - Jan 2023
The unified repository containing the Flow core packages, used for Flow development.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:149 reviews, 215 commits, 200 PRs in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Martin implemented and enhanced features related to the routing functionality of the Neos Flow framework. They added new CLI commands for displaying, generating, and routing paths. The commits involve modifications to PHP files, specifically within the command controller, to introduce and configure new functionalities within the routing system, including improvements to existing listing commands. The user also removed unused configuration types from the ConfigurationManager and adjusted unit tests.
core-packagephp-frameworkflowframeworkopinionated-framework
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