"As a wonderful leader and high-skill engineer, Achim enables people to achieve great goals. He leaves a trail of successful products with him by continuously encouraging people to grow and supporting them to implement their innovative ideas. I've worked with Achim for almost 3 years and what really impressed me was his ability to mix technical knowledge, managerial skills, and business orientation. Focused on what matters he was able to manage very complex tasks achieving high-quality results with great teamwork. Very professional and reliable with vast technical knowledge of Software Development. He also has a strong and wide technical basis in different domains like eCommerce solutions, DevOps and AWS. Achim knows how to motivate, empower and grow individuals and teams with his enthusiasm and energy. He is very communicative, and flexible, and creates an atmosphere of continuous learning, motivation, respect, and fun. It was a pleasure to work with an extremely creative person as he can find simple and reliable ways to solve complicated problems. I recommend him without hesitation and would be glad to have the opportunity to work with him in the future!"
"Achim is one of the most delightful people I had the pleasure of working for in my career. Helpful, supportive, respectful, and a hero for doing the best, a friend to help and a lead to solve. Not only did he have a unique ability to make an incredible team spirit and keeps our team organized, but his constant communication helped lift our spirits in challenging situations. I always mentioned him to others as an impressive lead that makes your situation super comfortable and results in you can solve the problem much easier than you think, exactly like a thoughtful leader, and I was always impressed by his ability to motivate us to reach our full potential and deliver a best possible solution, and he was there until the end. He is also a super-powerful developer and engineer who find the best reliable solution for every issue and he knows and finds what to do in any kinda situation. He has very strong abilities in many developing fields. His ability to coach other team members is something that I will definitely miss. Again, that was my honor to have worked with Achim and highly recommend him."
"Achim Galeski is an inspiring, genuine, and hands-on leader. He is the kind that you know would go to bat for you and enjoys getting into the field with his team. He combines leadership so well with experience and deep technical know-how to manage a cross-functional and diverse team. With Achim, you are never standing still, and there are a ton of optimizations to reduce toil, improve automation, and have a lot of fun while doing it. In making decisions, he ensures to get valuable inputs from the team on potential solutions. In my time working with him, he has had an immense impact on my career, and really helped me excel at my work as a Cloud Administrator, and eventually as a DevOps Engineer by clearly defining how my work can align with the business’s goals, and then giving me a great deal of autonomy to get the job done. This level of detail and communication went a long way in getting my work noticed on many levels for various infrastructure improvements on AWS, architecture decisions, and cost optimization strategies that I helped implement. On any given day, Achim can be seen simultaneously driving a ton of different backend, frontend, and AWS cloud infrastructure topics without breaking a sweat. Achim is also 100% committed to getting results and enjoys getting down to solve problems that arise quickly and transparently. He works extremely hard, solves hard problems and pushes for designing solutions that scale beautifully over many users while being not overly complex if they are maintainable, fast, and long-term effective. I recommend him highly!"
"I worked with Achim for 4 years, where he not only migrated a formerly static system into the AWS cloud with an automatic vertical and horizontal scaling set up (quite some night shifts were needed for this) to accommodate also hugh traffic spikes, but also developed and set up a safe and secure tech-environment. As (product) partner in crime he developed quite some marketing requested features e.g. all kinds of coupon options, but also catering to customer, operation and customer service needs - all on this fast, precise and with dedication. Furthermore, he is dedicated to setting up and evolving his team catering to any of cultural and technical background."
"Achim excels at concisely explaining and implementing technical solutions. Despite humbly referring to himself as a "Backend developer", his extensive knowledge of IT enables him to be equally as effective in DevOps and System Administration roles. He's the rare, sought after breed of Developer who's capable of both swift hot-fixes and meticulously crafted codebases. A pleasure to work with and someone whose feedback and input I always value."
"I had the great pleasure to work with Achim. Beyond being a very pleasant, friendly and brilliant gentleman, strongly rooted into core values, Achim is a real model for professionalism, devotion and loyalty. His primary care is to his customers and his team, he will never hesitate to dig deep into his energy to fulfil his professional and personal commitments. His strong technical skills allow him to provide highly efficient solutions to complex problems, providing therefore piece of mind to all stakeholders. I am very pleased to recommend Achim and will always be delighted to work with him."
"Achim is one of my most talented and reliable Team Leaders. He has an excellent PHP knowledge and an open solution oriented mind. This helps him to deliver fast and out of the box business solutions for our Enterprise Clients. He is truely customer focused and tries to understand the Sales demands as well. A skill that is quite rare in Developers. He cares for his team and challenges them to be better every day. It is a pleasure to work with him."
Updating & Refactoring large existing code base. Implement new monthly billing process. Improve old and build new internal processes. Expand (hire) and build the team further.
Implemented corporate compliance on infrastructure and code level. Improved lean infrastructure costs. Designed & implemented dedicated remote dev environments.
Build up the "dev" team. Established CI/CD workflows. Improved vertical + horizontal scalability of the cloud infrastructure. Implemented countless ecommerce features & customizations.
Established version control. Moved from monolithic server hosting into aws cloud. Designed cloud infrastructure. Implemented autoscaling, database infrastructure, object and page caching.
Focused on increasing available solutions, maintenance of existing solutions and establishing new enterprise level APIs and backends.
While leading and further developing the team and its capabilities and solution libraries, increased efforts of consulting potential new enterprise clients with lead sales managers.
Scaled the team of devs for enterprise integration. Realized several new 3rd party implementations via API and/or plugins. Established workflow between devs and project managers.
Established dedicated internal unit for enterprise customer integration. Created first standards for enterprise software implementations. Lead Salesforce customization team.
Management, Product Management, Web Development, Customer Care, Marketing, Service, Logistics
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