Philipp Giese
Co-Founder at Zodiac
Borkwalde, Brandenburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Giese is a web-focused technology leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building product-first engineering teams and shipping polished front-ends. He combines deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript ecosystems (including Meteor, CoffeeScript and React UI work) with backend experience in Python/Django, Java and Android, having progressed from software engineer to staff engineer, CTO and now founder. At Signavio and in open source he improved UX-critical components—contributing UI refactors and advanced copy/paste/inline-styling behavior to the popular react-mentions project. Philipp pairs product thinking (former product manager) with technical leadership, enabling pragmatic decisions that balance developer velocity and user experience. Based in Brandenburg, Germany, he augments his engineering background with formal training in modern leadership to scale teams effectively. Colleagues describe him as a creative, obsessive web developer who deliberately seeks growth through cross-disciplinary roles.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Software Engineering, Master of Science Software Engineering at Hasso Plattner InstitutePractitioner of Modern Leadership Organizational Leadership, Practitioner of Modern Leadership Organizational Leadership at TAM Akademie GmbH
English, French
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
mention10
react10
css9
html7
react-router7
orm6
many-to-many6
sqlite6
android6
jsp6
crud6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
signavio/react-mentions
Nov 2014 - Jan 2020
@mention people in a textarea
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 194 commits, 40 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Philipp focused on improving the user interface of the React Mentions component. Their contributions included refactoring the UI, improving styling, adding support for inline styling capabilities, and implementing custom copy/paste behavior. The user also worked on restructuring examples and updated the project's dependencies.
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frontendphil/react-undo-redo
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
A utility to add undo and redo functionality to any state managed through a reducer.
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 47 commits in 1 year 3 months
reactstate-managementreducerhooks-apiredo
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