Simon Sprankel
Geschäftsführer at Mage-OS
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Sprankel is a seasoned software entrepreneur and CTO with 13 years of experience building and operating Magento-based eCommerce platforms, now serving as Geschäftsführer of CustomGento GmbH. He combines deep backend PHP expertise with DevOps know-how, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Magento 2 and the Deployer tool to improve internationalization, deployment reliability, and caching strategies. As a founding member of the Mage-OS association he helps steward the future of Magento Open Source, blending community leadership with product-level engineering impact. His contributions to extensions such as AvS_FastSimpleImport show attention to robustness and international compatibility (multibyte handling and case-insensitive attribute logic). Trained with an M.Sc. in Computer Science from TU Darmstadt, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with a decade-plus of practical shipping and scaling of eCommerce systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
German, English, French
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Github Skills (20)
deploying10
ecommerce10
provisioning10
magento10
php10
caching9
varnish9
html8
toolz8
tooling8
toolbox8
filter6
htaccess6
moodle6
footer6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
avstudnitz/AvS_FastSimpleImport
Feb 2016 - Aug 2019
Wrapper for Magento ImportExport functionality, which imports products and customers from arrays
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Magento extension, `avs_fastsimpleimport`, by implementing bug fixes and improvements related to product import functionality. Their work focused on enhancing attribute option handling, ensuring case-insensitive comparisons for dropdown and multiselect attributes, and using multibyte string functions for broader compatibility. Further contributions included the addition of functionality for downloading external downloadable files and enhancements to the downloadable links import process.
customersmagento2arraysimportsmagento
magento/magento2
Dec 2014 - Jun 2022
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Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the Magento 2 codebase by addressing internationalization issues related to the processing of nested trans directives within HTML templates. They modified the `Html.php` file to extract phrases and added a test case in the `test_mail_template.html` file. Furthermore, the user made changes to the Varnish configuration files, adding and adjusting tracking parameters. This indicates involvement in both backend logic and optimization related to caching strategies.
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