Simon Hilz
Geschäftsführer at Konvenio
Passau, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Hilz is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of hands-on development experience and over a decade running his own companies from Passau, Germany. As Geschäftsführer of Hilzweb GmbH and Konvenio, and former Head of Software at dekodi, he blends product-focused leadership with deep backend expertise, having contributed form-handling improvements to the well-known Zend Framework. He has repeatedly moved between founding roles and senior engineering positions—co-founding Quatool and serving as Principal/Staff Engineer—demonstrating an ability to scale both teams and architectures. Known for pragmatic problem-solving in small and large organizations, he pairs technical rigor with commercial sensibility to deliver maintainable systems that meet business needs.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Universität Passau
German, English
Github Skills (8)
use-form10
zend-framework10
php10
view-helpers10
object-oriented-programming10
eforms10
forms10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Zend Framework, focusing on form-related components. They implemented changes to the `Collection` and `FormCollection` classes, including addressing an issue related to object extraction and adding the ability to use custom fieldset helpers. Additionally, the user fixed code style issues and added tests for the custom fieldset helper. These changes improve the form handling and rendering capabilities of the framework.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
DaHaiz/streamline
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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