Piet Althoff
Lead Architect
Experience
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
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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.
- Stack: Nuxt 3, Tailwind, Google Firebase
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
3 monthsLead Architect
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.
- Stack: Vue 2 -> Nuxt 3
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
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Dumont Media GmbH
- Successfully relaunched all of Dumont‘s major online newspapers with Nuxt 3: Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Express, Kölnische Rundschau.
- As one of two freelancers who did most of the legwork, I was involved in every aspect of the relaunch.
- My exclusive work included:
- 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 regionalised news and premium features.
- All search functionality + interpretation of misleading links.
- Stack: Nuxt 3 (Layers), Tailwind, Storybook, Google Search Console
Apr 2022 - May 2022
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drumcenter.de
- Successfully relaunched a legacy Magento 1 onlineshop to Nuxt 2.
- Managed >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.
- Stack: Nuxt 2, Elasticsearch
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
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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 an unified JSON dataset.
- Stack: Typescript, Node.js
Feb 2021 - Present
4 years 6 months Aachen, Germany
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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 bandwith and improve UX.
- Includes hidden pages where researches can discuss unreleased datasets.
- Stack: Nuxt 2, Vuetify 2 -> Nuxt 3, Vuetify 3, Netlify
Feb 2021 - May 2021
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Convidera GmbH
- Bringing Nitrex Steel Furnaces UIs into the Web 3.0 industry project.
- Worked on a 0.5m LOC German Legacy Code Base.
- Collaborated with Offshore Designers and Backend Developers.
- Stack: Vue 3, GraphQL
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
6 months Germany
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Dermanostic GmbH
- Conducted Sitespeed Optimization, Webpack Pruning, and SEO.
- Implemented Custom Treeshaking for Vue-Bootstrap.
- Improved onload time from 1220ms to 380ms.
- Broke up page into lazy components.
- Dermanostics Ranks on #1 for every search like “dermatologie app”, “hautarzt app”, “hautarzt online” in Germany.
- Stack: Nuxt 2, Google Analytics
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
10 monthsFirst Dev of the company
Primed Marketing Agency (by Fedor Holz) today: infludata.com & onlinepunks.com
- Scraping and analyzing 2.5m Instagram accounts every day using a custom written Instagram API via Puppeteer.
- Served as the first developer of the company.
- The developed botnet was used by the European Commission in Vienna.
- Stack: Node.js, MongoDB
May 2017 - Jun 2017
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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.
- Stack: Wordpress -> Shopify
Jun 2016 - Jun 2023
7 years 1 month Austria
First Dev of the company
Phobius VR-Phobia Treatment
- UI/UX, Conversion Funnel Optimization, Sitespeed Optimization, SEO.
- Achieved Position 1 on Google Austria for several Phobia Sites, above Wikipedia.
- Some of Google‘s Infoboxes are delivered from phobius.at instead of Wikipedia.
- Acquired 90% of customers via SEO.
- First Dev of the company.
- Stack: Nuxt 2, Google Analytics
Jun 2013 - Mar 2018
4 years 10 monthsDiplomaps (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.
- Stack: Node.js (worker threads)
Summary
With 8 years of experience as a JavaScript developer, I‘ve focused on Vue and Nuxt for the past 5 ye-ars. I‘ve been working with Vue 3 and the Composition API for 3 years. My backend primarily relies on Node servers, and I‘ve recently started learning Rust.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
University of Vienna
Biology - Genetics · Vienna, Austria
FH Jülich
Bio-Technology · Jülich, Germany
Einhard-Gymnasium
Aachen, Germany
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