Robert Meessen
Director Of Technology at Forte Central Europe
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRobert Meessen is a software leader and Head of Development based in the Greater Hamburg Area with five years of formal experience and a decade-plus background in web and e‑commerce engineering. He blends hands‑on frontend expertise—co‑developing Shopify’s Polaris and contributing accessibility improvements to notable open‑source projects—with strategic technical leadership, having introduced Next.js/Remix and guided international teams at Shopify. As a consultant and team lead he has built scalable UI component libraries and headless commerce solutions for clients like Bucherer and O2, and led frontend work for PwC’s energy portal under a German federal program. Known for mentoring engineers and hiring across borders, he routinely pairs pragmatic architecture choices with rigorous testing and accessibility practices. A former e‑commerce manager at Warner Music, he brings product sensibility to engineering decisions and a consistent focus on delivering measurable business impact.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Media & Communication Management, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Media & Communication Management at Hochschule Fresenius HamburgWirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftswissenschaften at Fachhochschule Wedel
German, English
Github Skills (11)
accessibility10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
storybook9
react-router8
graphql8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Shopify/quilt
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
[⚠️ Deprecated] A loosely related set of packages for JavaScript/TypeScript projects at Shopify
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on enhancing the accessibility and functionality of the project's user interface. They added exports for `RouteProps` and `generatePath` to the react-router library. They also addressed an export issue related to `NetworkStatus` in the `react-graphql` package and made updates to the `storybook-a11y-test` package, specifically, adjusting test setup and related stories to improve accessibility testing.
javascriptshopifytypescript
Shopify/polaris-react-archive
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Shopify's Polaris Design System - React implementation (Deprecated)
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 commit, 6 PRs in 1 day
reactshopifyshopify-polaristypescriptdesign-system
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.