Michael Pfeiffer
Director, Technical Program Management at Shopware
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Pfeiffer is a Director of Technical Program Management with 13 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products and platforms from front-end UI to infrastructure. Based in Saarbrücken, he combines hands-on engineering roots—contributing notable UI and accessibility improvements to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress Gutenberg, WooCommerce and Jetpack—with leadership roles at Automattic and Shopware where he shaped platform strategy and delivery. He has led cross-functional teams, run technical programs, and moved between individual-contributor coding and senior management, bringing pragmatic product thinking to complex engineering problems. As a co-founder of developer conferences and a D2C social enterprise, he pairs community-building and entrepreneurship with technical stewardship. Colleagues know him for improving user experience at the browser and mobile edge (fixing iOS/Firefox quirks) while driving program-level outcomes in large, distributed orgs.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Digital Media, Bachelor of Arts Digital Media at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University
English, German
Github Skills (22)
woocommerce10
javascript10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
woocommerce-blocks10
plugin10
uid10
php10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
typescript-types10
html10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-blocks
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged into woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 91 reviews, 70 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on front-end development, contributing to the user interface and block functionality of the WooCommerce Blocks plugin. Their work included fixing alignment issues in the cart, hiding blocks in the customizer, adding block transforms for legacy widgets, and adding background color options to featured blocks. They also converted shared configuration elements to TypeScript and updated block template descriptions and code formatting.
wordpresswoocommercefeature-plugingutenbergwoocommerce-blocks
Automattic/wp-calypso
Aug 2017 - Mar 2021
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 116 commits, 216 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress.com project, focusing on UI updates and feature enhancements. Their work involved modifying modal interfaces, implementing template previews, and improving the visual appearance and user experience on smaller screens. They demonstrated proficiency in React, JavaScript, and related front-end technologies, working within the `full-site-editing` plugin and other UI components of the project.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
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