Richard Poelderl
Founder at Build & Rave
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRichard Poelderl is a founder and full-stack engineer based in Berlin with six years of experience blending marketing, product strategy, and hands-on development. A marketer-turned-developer, he builds user-focused web apps across frontend and backend using Python, Flask, React, Node, Docker and Kubernetes, and practices TDD and CI/CD. He has driven growth and international expansion at scale—e.g., leading acquisition efforts that grew traffic 1M→4M visits/month—and later translated that growth mindset into engineering roles including contributing front-end improvements to the widely used scheduling platform Cal.com. Richard also co-founded early-stage SaaS products and runs agencies that help founders structure content and digital workflows, bringing rare cross-functional fluency between growth and engineering. Currently finishing a Full Stack Nanodegree and actively hiring/looking for frontend, backend or full-stack roles, he combines entrepreneurial grit with production-grade engineering and SEO-savvy product instincts. An uncommon detail: he pairs high-growth marketing playbooks with open-source contributions that optimize SEO, i18n and performance in real-world developer tooling.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Business Administration Management in Automobile Trade, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Business Administration Management in Automobile Trade at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Nanodegree Full Stack Developer, Nanodegree Full Stack Developer at UdacityImprenditorialità ed Innovazione
(Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Imprenditorialità ed Innovazione
(Entrepreneurship and Innovation) at Università degli Studi di FirenzeBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) International Business, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) International Business at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityMaster of Science Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Master of Science Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
German, English, French, Italian
Stackoverflow
349reputation
39kreached
4answers
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Github Skills (30)
seo10
web-application10
apidoc10
typescript10
nextjs10
ui-design10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
webapp10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
web-development10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unkeyed/unkey
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
The Developer Platform for Modern APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 17 PRs, 56 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed significantly to the `unkey` project, primarily focusing on API management features within the `billing` and `landing` applications. They implemented a keyword research agent, generating glossary entries and workflows, as well as optimizing SEO meta tags, takeaways, and FAQs. The user also demonstrated proficiency in setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline.
authenticationauthorizationgatewayapiapi-keys
calcom/cal.diy
Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 43 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on improving the front-end of the Cal.com application. Their contributions include setting and managing canonical URLs for SEO, removing unnecessary tags, updating UI components and links, and optimizing the website's prefetching behavior. They also worked on updating various UI elements, such as headers and logos, along with implementing SEO enhancements.
tailwindcssturborepotrpcprismascheduling
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