Philipp Flenker
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Flenker is an experienced engineering manager with 11 years of building and scaling high-performing R&D teams across co-located and remote environments, currently leading engineering at Zalando. He combines hands-on technical background (Java, Node, React, Groovy) with strong systems architecture and agile transformation expertise, having steered teams of 20–75+ people and large subcontractor landscapes. Philipp excels at fostering a growth mindset through structured learning programs, internal conferences and cross-team scaling initiatives that convert individual learning into organizational capability. He is pragmatic and outcomes-driven, creating environments of trust, clear ownership and accountability while still contributing technically when needed. Based in Lüdinghausen, Germany, he pairs product sensibility from past product-manager roles with engineering leadership to move teams from ideas to measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik, 1,5, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatik, 1,5 at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (77)
semantic-ui10
google-maps10
semantic-ui-react10
react-library10
mongodb10
responsive-design10
javascript9
fomantic-ui9
component-library9
zenhub9
semantic9
react9
nodejs9
rust8
maps8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pflenker/hecto-tutorial
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Build your own text editor in Rust
Contributions:132 commits, 3 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 7 months
rustrustlangtext-editoreditorbuild-your-own
pflenker/vim
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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