Piet Althoff
JavaScript developer focused on Vue and Nuxt
Experience
Value Finance GmbH
Customer-facing application for a team of realtors to manage insurance and financial contracts. Tool provides real-time insights into various insurance products, allowing realtors to manage, compare, and recommend contracts to clients. Implemented a complex, reactive SVG visualization that displays key contract metrics for client presentations.
start.me B.V.
Lead Architect for updating a large SaaS with several million users from Vue 2 (SPA) to Nuxt 3 (SSR). Coordinated the upgrade process to enhance web performance and maintainability. Mentored two nearshore developers on best practices in software development, code quality, and specifically focused on UX/UI considerations to ensure user-centric design and accessibility. Initiated and led the development of new interface concepts and widgets, aiming to improve user interaction and visual appeal while maintaining high performance and responsiveness across devices.
Dumont Media GmbH
Successfully relaunched all of Dumont's major online newspapers with Nuxt 3. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Express, Kölnische Rundschau. Two freelancers, including myself, did most of the legwork. So I was involved in every aspect of the relaunch.
Work that was done exclusively by me:
- Business logic, e.g. how to arrange teasers.
- All revenue-related issues, including ads, ad placements, ad logic.
- All SEO-related topics.
- All personalization topics, including regionalized news.
- All search functionality + interpretation of misleading links.
drumcenter.de
Successfully relaunched a legacy Magento 1 online shop to Nuxt 2. >100k shop items. Heavy use of RegExs to polish item names and correct legacy/transfer errors. Improved SEO and site speed significantly; now ranking for 'Drum' related search terms above musicstore.de in Cologne.
Generali Insurance Group
Successfully wrote an internal-use script that cleans up and summarizes large amounts of customer data from various Excel files and transforms them into a unified JSON dataset.
ENPOLITE - ISEA of RWTH Aachen University
Website which presents a Lithium Battery Aging research project. Made non-responsive Vega Data Visualization library responsive. Loads multiple large JSON datasets lazy to save on bandwidth and improve UX. Includes hidden pages where researchers can discuss unreleased datasets.
Convidera GmbH
Bringing Nitrex Steel Furnaces UIs into the Web 3.0 industry project. 0.5m LOC German Legacy Code Base. Working with Offshore Designers and Backend Developers.
Dermanostic GmbH
Sitespeed Optimization, Webpack Pruning, SEO, Custom Treeshaking for Vue-Bootstrap, 1220ms -> 380ms onload, Breaking up page in lazy components. Dermanostics ranks on #1 for every search like 'dermatologie app', 'hautarzt app', 'hautarzt online' in Germany.
Primed Marketing Agency (by Fedor Holz)
Scraping and analyzing 2.5m Instagram accounts every day using custom written Instagram API via Puppeteer. First Dev of the company. Botnet used by the European Commission in Vienna.
Aponcho
Provided UI/UX consultancy for a startup online shop, focusing on enhancing user experience to boost conversion rates, reduce bounce rates, and optimize user funnels. Developed solutions for product customization.
Phobius VR-Phobia Treatment
UI/UX, Conversion Funnel Optimization, Sitespeed Optimization, SEO. Several Phobia Sites on Google Austria Position 1 above Wikipedia. Some of Google's Infoboxes are delivered from phobius.at instead of Wikipedia. 90% Customers via SEO. First Dev of the company.
Diplomaps (Own Project)
Scraping and analyzing tens of thousands of international diplomatic and economic news daily. Presented to the Policy Planning Staff of the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
Summary
Languages
Education
University of Vienna
Biology - Genetics · Vienna, Austria
FH Jülich
Bio-Technology · Germany
Einhard-Gymnasium
Aachen, Germany
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