Summary
Uli Schumacher is an agile professional and coach based in Hamburg with 15 years of experience guiding product engineering and development teams from hands-on frontend work to leadership roles. Currently at Die Techniker, he brings a practical blend of coaching, scrum mastery, and technical empathy honed through roles as Director Product Engineering and Technical Director at SinnerSchrader and as an independent developer. Uli’s background spans early full-stack and frontend craftsmanship—JavaScript, PHP/Symfony, ActionScript and MySQL—giving him credibility when translating product goals into engineering practices. He excels at creating reflective team cultures and pragmatic delivery mechanisms, combining antenna-like listening skills with strategic reflection. Known for shifting between coaching and doing, he helps organizations adopt agile patterns without losing sight of developer experience. Based in Germany, he pairs a long arc of incremental technical growth with a human-centered approach to change.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium Antonianum Vechta
German, English