Tobias Baldauf
Web Performance Lead at Speed Kit
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Baldauf is a web performance leader with 14 years’ experience optimizing large-scale sites, currently driving performance strategy as Web Performance Lead at Speed Kit after shaping site speed and image optimization at trivago. He blends hands-on DevOps tooling, image compression expertise and frontend leadership—skills honed earlier as an Enterprise Architect at Akamai and through freelance consulting. A frequent conference speaker praised for his presentation skills, Tobias is known for turning complex performance challenges into automated, measurable wins that delight customers. Based in Düsseldorf, he balances technical depth with pragmatic delivery and brings a curious maker’s mindset (runner, musician and single parent) that informs a disciplined, human-centered approach to engineering.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
First Legal State Exam (1. Staatsexamen), HDip. ed. (Higher Diploma in Education), First Legal State Exam (1. Staatsexamen), HDip. ed. (Higher Diploma in Education) at RWTH Aachen University
German, English, French, Sign languages, Portuguese
Github Skills (168)
svg10
compression10
lazyload10
srcset10
image-optimization10
placeholder10
prerender10
user-interaction10
normal10
cli-tools10
image-compression10
shadow10
responsive-images10
jpeg10
lazy-loading10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
technopagan/adept-jpg-compressor
Apr 2013 - Nov 2019
A Bash script to automate adaptive JPEG compression using common CLI tools
Contributions:67 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 7 months
image-optimizationjpeg-compressionlosslessadaptivecompression
technopagan/slides-in-markdown
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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