Simon Schick
Technical Engineering Lead at ecorize
Mühlacker, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Schick is a Technical Engineering Lead based in Mühlacker, Germany with 14 years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing web and mobile systems across Azure, C#, Blazor, Meteor, NodeJS and Xamarin. He blends strategic product stewardship with active coding, having led engineering teams and driven UX-focused technical specs to ensure long-term maintainability and high code quality. Simon is an experienced open-source contributor—improving API robustness in the widely used FriendsOfSymfony FOSRestBundle and hardening media queue behavior in the XamarinMediaManager plugin—highlighting a pragmatic focus on reliability and test coverage. Comfortable across backend, frontend and cloud operations, he has repeatedly simplified complex data queries and improved developer tooling while keeping user experience front of mind. Notably, he transitioned from deep implementation roles into leadership without losing the habit of shipping code and writing unit tests, making him a leader who still understands the trenches.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ausbildung Computerprogrammierung besondere Anwendungen, Ausbildung Computerprogrammierung besondere Anwendungen at Ferdinand-Braun-Schule FuldaZweijährige Höhere Berufsfachschule der Fachrichtung Informationsverarbeitung – Technik, Zweijährige Höhere Berufsfachschule der Fachrichtung Informationsverarbeitung – Technik at Konrad-Zuse-Schule
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Github Skills (50)
javascript10
mobile-development10
testing10
media-manager10
xamarin10
mongodb-database10
http-status-code10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
dotnet-core10
rest-api10
csharp10
meteor10
mongodb10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-roles
Aug 2017 - May 2020
Authorization package for Meteor, compatible with built-in accounts packages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 24 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to simplifying and improving MongoDB queries within the Meteor roles package. They added a critical dependency ('mongo') to enable testing with Meteor v1.6.0, and corrected a syntax error. The user also implemented a method to check role inheritance and addressed minor code style adjustments by switching to the 'standard' code style and making adjustments for code coverage.
built-inmeteoraccountsauthorization
Baseflow/XamarinMediaManager
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Cross platform Xamarin plugin to play and control Audio and Video
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 50 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Xamarin MediaManager plugin, including enhancements to the media queue management. They implemented event triggers for property changes, specifically for `Count` and `Current` properties. Several commits addressed issues with shuffling, clearing the queue, and managing the internal queue with the use of `ReplaceQueueWith`. Unit tests for the `MediaQueue` were added to improve quality.
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