Matthias Glitzner-zeis is a CTO and Magento specialist with over 14 years of experience in web development and leadership, currently steering technical strategy for a 50+ person agency in Vienna. He moved from leading a 20+ developer team into the CTO role, where he combines hands-on Magento 2 architecture and coding with company-wide initiatives like CI/CD, technical career ladders, and cross-team alignment. A long-time open-source contributor and Magento Master Maker (2017) and Top 50 contributor (2017–2018), he has improved core tools such as the Magento coding standard and the widely used n98-magerun CLI. Matthias is known for obsessing over quality and performance in e-commerce, and for translating deep industry knowledge into tangible business improvements for clients. He also cultivates the community as founder of Magento Meetup Austria and a regular conference speaker and blogger.
14 years of coding experience
Bakk. phil., Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Sehr gut, Bakk. phil., Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Sehr gut at Universität Wien
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on improving the Magento coding standard, specifically the line length rules. Their contributions included moving rules, fixing line length sniffs to handle translations correctly, and removing redundant empty lines. They also addressed issues related to class comments, ensuring proper code style and adherence to the project's coding standards.
The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the development of command-line tools for the Magento platform, enhancing its functionality. They added new commands for tasks like counting report files, measuring log file sizes, and executing database queries. Furthermore, they implemented features such as gzip compression for database dumps and imports, improving data management capabilities. Additionally, the user fixed documentation to clarify functionality.
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