Thomas Eiling is an experienced E‑Commerce leader and hands-on software engineer with over a decade leading development teams and optimizing online retail platforms. Currently Bereichsleiter E‑Commerce at OFFICE Partner, he combines squad leadership with deep backend and DevOps expertise honed at Shopware and FastBill, including contributions to the widely used Shopware core and developer docs. He excels at performance improvements, legacy refactoring, and infrastructure automation—practical skills reflected in server-requirement checks, SQL work, and Shopware core maintenance. Based in Heiden, Germany, he blends technical authorship and team coaching to turn complex commerce requirements into resilient, high-performing systems. An often-overlooked strength is his knack for improving developer experience through clear documentation and small, high-impact code hygiene changes.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
Fachinformatiker Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker Systemintegration at Berufskolleg für Technik Ahaus
Contributions:53 commits, 39 PRs, 23 pushes in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on documentation updates and corrections within the Shopware 5 developer documentation repository. Their contributions included fixing typos, unifying directory usage in test examples, and adding a blog post related to mutation testing. The user also replaced tabs with whitespaces in the documentation files. Their work improved the clarity and accuracy of the documentation for developers.
Contributions:6 reviews, 43 commits, 53 PRs in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on maintaining and enhancing the Shopware 5 core, specifically modifying backend functionalities. Their contributions involved adding events, removing legacy code, adding PHP documentation, and replacing double quotes. They also addressed database-related issues by increasing the password hash size. Further work included fixing an ES availability filter and fixing issues related to the frontend forms controller.
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Thomas Eiling - Bereichsleiter E-Commerce at OFFICE Partner GmbH