Michael Xander
Lead Software Engineer at ZEISS Group
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Xander is a Senior Software Engineer and product-minded designer with 13 years of experience building customer-facing digital products from greenfield enterprise apps to consumer platforms. He led front-end architecture and product design at ZEISS using React, TypeScript, GraphQL and React Native, and previously scaled My Morning Routine from a niche blog to a Penguin-published book and a 12,000+ subscriber magazine. Comfortable as a bridge between design, product and engineering, he prioritizes UX, semantic markup, accessibility, performance and component-driven systems. His background includes founding startups, freelance transitions to atomic design systems, and automating workflows—skills that surface in pragmatic decisions that balance design consistency with scalable code. Based in Munich, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a proven track record of shipping polished, measurable products.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor's degree Wirtschaftsinformatik at Stuttgart Media University
English, German
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Github Skills (131)
webextension10
stylelint10
rss10
javascript10
rss-reader10
safari10
gulp10
firefox10
golang10
git10
stylesheets10
browser-extension10
typescript10
uncss10
cicd10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
michaelx/gulp-jekyll
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Build tooling for web development. Integrates Jekyll with Gulp.js, BrowserSync, PostCSS, Stylelint, and more.
Contributions:4 releases, 23 commits, 23 pushes in 2 years 10 months
browsersyncgulpjsjekyllpostcssstylelint
michaelx/media-tracker
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Self-hosted open source media-tracker for tv shows and movies. (React, Redux)
Contributions:23 commits, 17 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 5 months
reactreduxtv-showstv-seriesmovies
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