Simon Praetorius
Web Consultant & Developer at Simon Praetorius
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Praetorius is a Hamburg-based Web Consultant & Developer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and leading TYPO3 projects and web applications. He combines deep technical expertise across frontend and backend with business-oriented thinking, helping clients align online marketing goals with robust, maintainable implementations. As former Business Unit Lead and Senior TYPO3 Developer, he led teams, improved DevOps and quality processes, and presented at conferences while coaching developers and acting as technical lead in client engagements. His open-source contributions — from TYPO3 core fixes and feature work to enhancing a Sublime Text Gist plugin with advanced filtering and author displays — show a practical focus on improving developer workflows and CMS internals. Trained in Communication and Multimedia Design, he brings both UX-aware design sensibility and backend engineering rigor to projects.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Communication and Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Communication and Multimedia Design at FH Aachen University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Science - BS, Communication and Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Communication and Multimedia Design at Zuyd Hogeschool | Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (13)
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
api10
sublime-text-plugin10
content-management10
python10
apidoc10
typo310
github-api9
sql9
regular-expression8
javascript7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TYPO3/typo3
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to bug fixes and new features within the TYPO3 CMS core, focusing on the Install Tool and core functionalities. Their work involved modifying PHP code related to database queries and settings, as well as implementing new features such as support for the `defer` attribute in JavaScript includes. The contributions demonstrate a solid understanding of the TYPO3 framework's internal workings and focus on improving functionality and maintainability.
cmsmanagement-systemphpsynchronizedtypo3-cms
condemil/gist
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
Sublime Text plugin for creating new Gists from selected text
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Sublime Text Gist plugin. They added features to fetch gists from organizations and other GitHub users. The user also implemented options for advanced gist filtering, including filtering by tags and prefixes, improving the plugin's flexibility and search capabilities. Furthermore, they incorporated the display of author names in the gist listing.
textmatesublime-text-pluginsublimesublime-text-3gists
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