Patrick Hopfner is a Full Stack Engineer and CTO with a decade of experience building and maintaining web applications across Austria's tech and energy sectors. He combines hands-on PHP and JavaScript work—evidenced by substantive contributions to the Sulu CMS core, including admin and media bundle enhancements—with leadership at startups and agencies like weitweit and noknots. Comfortable across backend, frontend and DevOps concerns, he has a practical engineering background that began in electronics and industrial automation, giving him an uncommon sensitivity for hardware-software integration. Known for shipping pragmatic fixes, refactors and feature work, he balances production-focused reliability with incremental improvements that reduce technical debt. Based in Alberschwende, he brings both entrepreneurial drive and deep implementation skills to product-focused teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Matura Aufbaulehrgang für Elektronik-Informationstechnologie, Matura Aufbaulehrgang für Elektronik-Informationstechnologie at HTL Rankweil
Core framework that implements the functionality of the Sulu content management system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:106 commits, 142 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the enhancement and bug fixing of the Sulu CMS framework, specifically within the admin and media bundles. The commits involved adding features, fixing bugs, and refactoring code, which included changes to both the frontend JavaScript (in the form of components and modules) and backend PHP. The contributions also encompassed the integration of new functionalities such as a Behat step for admin login with a default locale and the correction of date handling.
Contributions:596 pushes, 87 branches in 1 year 11 months
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