Erik Müller
Personal data
| What? | Where |
|---|---|
| Where I build | @erikmueller |
| Where I blog | @slackoverflow |
| What I think | @Air2ick |
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I ❤️ functional, declarative and clean programming and its powerful abstractions like pure functions and immutable data.
It makes programs easier to reason about and (imho) introduces less bugs.
My favourite Tech-Stack consists of a React frontend, bundled and transpiled with webpack to use the latest ES7 features.
I also love node.js bundled with TypeScript (when applicable) for the backend but prefer the Elixir environment around the Phoenix framework for its more functional nature.
Technical Experience
JavaScript with 6 years professional experience in extending existing architectures as well as conceptualizing new projects. Besides working with ES6 and ES7 language features I utilised popular frameworks and libraries in production such as:
- React, redux and react-router on client and server (universal)
- Two popular node.js web frameworks: Express and hapi
- ORM/ODM wrappers for mongodb (mongoose) and mysql (sequelize)
- Build tools and transpilers: Webpack, babel and TypeScript (in conjuction)
- Several test runners and assertion libraries (jest, unexpected, karma, mocha, selenium)
I also created and contributed to several open source projects including:
- eslint (pluggable tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript)
- react-stdio (render React.js components on any backend)
- unexpected-immutable (immutable.js assertions for unexpected.js)
- an-old-hype (port of an atom syntax theme for hyper)
Elixir. Hobby alchemist for 2 years. Although still being a niche language Elixir helped me in becoming a better programmer and made me rethink established object oriented ways of thinking and programming patterns. A lot of the functional paradigms found in Elixir can be applied to the JavaScript language as well. I was part of the Hamburg.ex user group and created several side projects and playgrounds:
- Luke (server-side rendered react-router with the cowboy webserver)
- JellyShot (blog engine based on Phoenix powered by markdown)
- Edmin (image slider backed by ex_admin CRUD interface)
HTML & CSS. Besides efficient JavaScript I consider writing semantically correct markup and stylesheets the bread and butter of successful web development.
MySQL & MongoDB. Experience with running relational and document-oriented databases in production gives me the proficiency to always chose the best-fitting technology for the task at hand.
Docker & CI. I use Docker a lot. Be it for easy reproducible deployments or faster development workflows. All my projects build and test on CircleCI. I also did docker multistage builds in the CI environment as well as bundle optimizations like code and route splitting.
Work
| When? | What |
|---|---|
| 2014 – 2018 | JavaScript Engineer, ePages GmbH, Hamburg |
| - Part of a cross-functional fullstack team | |
- From scratch rewrite of an ecommerce frontend with react & redux |
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- Backend for frontend implementation with express, sequelize and TypeScript |
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| - Examining applications and conducting technical job interviews | |
| 2012 – 2014 | JavaScript Engineer, ePages GmbH, Jena |
| - Part of the frontend team | |
- Working with jQuery and the Dojo Toolkit as well as require.js and Backbone |
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- Building a new asset pipeline with nodejs (0.8) |
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- Greenfield project based on node.js and express with universal rendering |
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| 10/11 – 3/12 | Intern, ePages GmbH, Jena |
| - Evaluating several mobile frameworks as part of the master thesis | |
| - Prototypal implementation of a multi platform app for administrating epages6 |
Education
| When? | What |
|---|---|
| 2010 – 2012 | Applied Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt |
| Thesis: Mobile Cross Platform Development | |
| Degree: Master of Science, final grade: 1.8 | |
| 2007 – 2011 | Applied Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt |
| Thesis: Tool for Heuristic Evaluation Online (THEO) | |
| Degree: Bachelor of Science, final grade: 2.0 | |
| 2006 – 2007 | Media Systems, Bauhaus University Weimar |
| 1998 – 2006 | Gustav-Freytag-Gymnasium Gotha |
| Thesis: The Venus Transit` | |
| Degree: Abitur, final grade: 1.6 |
Language skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| German | Native speaker (first language) |
| English | Highly proficient in both spoken and written English (C1) |
| French | Basic (3 yrs) |
Hobbies
- Sports (volleyball, cycling, snowboarding)
- IoT and the like (several raspberry projects involving soldering stuff)
- Music festivals and concerts