Richard Blechinger
Owner at pretzelhands
Graz, Styria, Austria
Summary
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SeniorRichard Blechinger is a freelance software engineer and owner with over a decade of experience designing and maintaining complex web and backend systems for clients across Austria and Germany. He specializes in PHP (Symfony, Laravel), C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript, with deep expertise in backend architecture and thorny legacy integrations—including IBM DB2/AS400 environments most developers avoid. Richard has led long-term, remote engagements with full technical ownership, delivering systems like a real-time pricing engine for 150,000+ vehicles and a Java API that brought a 40-year-old ERP online. He also has hands-on e-commerce and payments experience (Magento, Shopware, WooCommerce, Wirecard) and has shipped a successful Vue/Electron product, Notebag, before open-sourcing it. Comfortable running both greenfield projects and migrations of massive legacy footprints, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with an appetite for technically risky integrations. Based in Graz, he’s open to new remote engagements where he can take end-to-end responsibility.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Stackoverflow
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499reached
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Github Skills (119)
gif-animation10
payment-service10
animated10
animation10
wordpress10
draw10
wirecard10
payment9
api9
aseprite9
woocommerce9
payment-gateway9
state-machine9
cpp9
gif9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pretzelhands/jinx
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
✨jinx - a magical nginx wrapper
Contributions:6 releases, 31 commits, 7 PRs in 24 days
nginx
pretzelhands/opencart-ee
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Wirecard Payment Processing Gateway Extension for OpenCart
Contributions:40 releases, 41 pushes, 46 tags in 5 days
opencartwirecardpayment-processingpayment-gatewaygateway
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