Paul Hackenberger
Team Lead Apps WELT at Axel Springer National Media & Tech GmbH & Co. KG
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hackenberger is a seasoned mobile engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and leading native iOS, Android and cross-platform teams in the media industry, currently heading the premium-focused WELT Apps at Axel Springer in Berlin. He blends hands-on development instincts with product-minded leadership, overseeing apps for high-traffic brands like BILD and WELT while championing mobile design, payments, push and in-app messaging. Fluent in Agile (Kanban, Scrum) and a Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, he keeps technical depth in Flutter and native stacks even as he scales teams and delivery. His career path shows steady progression from technical project management to senior mobile leadership, reflecting both operational rigor and long-term platform stewardship. Known for being "still a developer at heart," he brings pragmatic engineering trade-offs to editorial product challenges.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Freie Universität BerlinDiplom, Electronic Business, Diplom, Electronic Business at Universität der Künste Berlin
English, German, French
Github Skills (32)
mermaid10
markdown10
javascript10
visualization10
typescript10
flowchart10
sequence10
mindmap10
documentation10
react-component8
json7
swift7
react6
consent-management6
plug6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pkcpkc/emoji-zero-width-joiner
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
pkcpkc/threadingText
Nov 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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