Summary
Oliver Schafeld is a Senior Frontend Developer and freelance consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-conversion e-commerce apps, microfrontends, and advanced data visualizations. He blends deep frontend craft (React, Vue, Nuxt, Typescript) with experimentation-driven optimization using Adobe Target and A/B testing to improve user experience and metrics. Oliver has architected solutions for major telco and retail clients, led frontend teams, and supported pre-sales and customer workshops for a VC-backed frontend platform. Currently working on 3D and dashboard visualizations with Cesium and Refine, he pairs UI engineering with a strong sense for product impact. A lifelong learner, he augments formal CS studies with MOOCs from Coursera/edX/Udacity and practical UX engineering work. He also brings an entrepreneurial background, having founded a digital agency and a food-styling image business, which informs his pragmatic product-first approach.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Coursera
Computer Science, Computer Science at edX
Object-Oriented JavaScript Computer Science, Object-Oriented JavaScript Computer Science at Udacity
Full Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Computer Science (Media) B.Sc., Computer Science (Media) B.Sc. at Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven
cand. arch. architecture, cand. arch. architecture at TU Dortmund University
German, English, Dutch, Spanish