Résumé

My person

Name Alexander Gesswein

Contact eMail: [email protected]

Website: www.advery.one

Residence Malaga, Andalusia, Spain

Year of birth 1987

Nationality German

Family status Married and 4 kids

Languages German (native), English (Read/Write: full

professional proficiency, Verbal: fluent - partly

business related)

Me „cheat sheet“

(no specific order)

Personality

Honest, loyal

and faithfull

humorous considerate but

goal-oriented

ambitious /

think big

adaptable forward-looking

(Big Picture)

What drives me

Innovations Smart AND Good

Solutions

Continuous

Advancement

Ad hoc Abilities

eCommerce SQL-Databases Web-Analytics

IoT-

Development

> 10 years

Fulltime Remote-

Work

Application-

Development

LLM-APIs 3D Printing

Highly interested in

AI/ML XR/Metaverse

Suboptimalities

Money drives

me too

too attached to

work (at times)

Night-Owl

Professional education

07/2022 - now Feinripp Studios - Senior Techstack & Commerce

Distribution Developer – Factual Lead of

Development

09/2021 – 03/2023 Founder narrangee – Smellable Audiobooks

11/2011 – now Self-employed Software Engineer / - Consultant

11/2014 – 10/2017 Werbeartikel Dresden – Batai & Bauernfeind GbR –

adizz.de (Collaboration since 2011) – exclusively

from homeoffice as Lead Software Engineer

09/2011 – 11/2014 IBS AG / Siemens AG (Höhr-Grenzhausen –

Germany) as Technical Consultant / Software

Engineer

01/2011 – 09/2011 VARIO Software GmbH (Neuwied – Germany) as

Software Engineer

03/2010 – 01/2011 M/S VisuCom GmbH (Mühlheim-Kärlich – Germany)

as Software Engineer

06/2009 – 03/2010 VARIO Software GmbH (Neuwied – Germany) as

Software Engineer

08/2006 – 06/2009  College – Berufsbildende Schule Carl-Benz,

Koblenz

 College – Apprenticeship as a Software

Engineer VARIO Software GmbH (Neuwied -

Germany)

Knowledge and interests

Courses / Internships  edX - IBM: Computer Vision and Image

Processing Fundamentals

 Columbia University (ColumbiaX) Artificial

Intelligence

 Columbia University (ColumbiaX) Machine

Learning

 Datentechnik Wüst & Kuhn, Computer Engineer

 Visuelle Kommunikation, Graphic Designer

Knowledge  Programming languages: C#, Micropython,

Javascript, PHP, SQL, Java, Object Pascal, CSS,

HTML, C/C++, Perl, Python, SQL-WINDOWS

 Technologies/Frameworks: Symfony, Vue.js,

Twig, WebGL, Smarty Template-Engine, IoT,

Firebird SQL, jQuery, SCSS, SOAP, AJAX, XML,

MySQL, MS SQL Server, ORACLE Database,

Delphi 5, Delphi 7, RAD Studio 2005, 2007,

2009, 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Selenium

Webdriver, ImageMagick, MongoDB,

TensorFlow

 3D: Blender

 3D Printing FDM/FFF/SLA, 3D Modeling, Slicer,

Meshmixer

 eCommerce-systems:

WooCommerce ,Shopware, Shopify,

xt:Commerce 3 & 4, Gambio, xt:Modiﬁed, VC

Media, VC Shop (M/S VisuCom)

 CRM/CMS: Wordpress, Joomla

 ERP software (VARIO Software), CAQ (IBS

CAQ=QSYS)

 Bug-Tracking: Axosoft OnTime, osTicket,

VARIO Software TiCare, Polaris Solutions ALM

Polaris

 Windows driver development (Final assignment

of apprenticeship, interactive Whiteboard based

on Nintendo Wii-Remotes)

 Computer networks, Computers in general

 Reporting-Tools (QuickReport, List&Label)

Base knowledge  Programming languages: Assembler, Visual

Basic

 3D: Autodesk Maya

 Video editing: DaVinci Resolve 15

 Image editing: GIMP, Adobe-Photoshop,

Adobe-InDesign, Adobe-Illustrator

 MS Office, Open Office

 Virtualisation with VMWare and VirtualBox

 AI / ML

 Google Android, Windows Phone

 Technologies/Frameworks: MongoDB,

TensorFlow

Projects

The listed projects are just a selection of all projects I accomplished for all of my

former employers or customers

World-wide website-relaunch and transition to new technologies for

ASPECTA™ Flooring

Year 2022 – ongoing

Company Feinripp Studios

Technologies Web (PHP, Wordpress, WooCommerce, Javascript etc.)

Description The project was a world-wide website-relaunch for the

global enterprise ASPECTA™ Flooring. I owned the role

as the technical and architectural lead of the

development department. The projects scope was/is a

completely new website with extensive custom code

parts, Room-Visualizer, multilinguality, Cloudflare,

Fullfilment-Partner Portal. It’s an ongoing project with

new functionalities coming. For example a customized

Chat-Bot with extended abilities (Checkout etc.), XR-

Technologies and further usage of AI-Technologies

(Predictions and more). ASPECTA™s strategic plan after

the very successful cooperation in realizing and releasing

the website-relaunch is now to become the technological

leader in this sector by leveraging cutting-edge

technology.

Several projects mostly webbased

Year 2011 - now

Company self-employment

Technologies PHP, Symfony, Vue.js, MySQL, MariaDB, Javascript,

jQuery, ImageMagick, HTML, CSS (SCSS), AJAX, SOAP,

xt:Commerce Veyton, Gambio GX2, Shopware,

Wordpress, C# .NET etc.

Planning and implementation of various software solutions for business

process automation

Year 2011 – now

Company self-employment

Technologies C#, Firebird SQL, Selenium Webdriver, etc.

Description I implemented many software solutions with the goal to

automate as many as possible business processes. For

example solutions to synchronize all important product

details (such as stocks, prices, images) with the online

portals of their individiual suppliers. Another solution is

used as a central intelligence, control and administration

tool (CIA) for all business processes (e. g. Approval

process of print previews inclusively transfer to factory;

triggering of internal alert mails; placing orders with

suppliers etc.).

Planning and development of a Realtime Monitoring Tool of measurement

data (Quality Management)

Year 2013

Company IBS AG / Siemens AG - Germany

Technologies C#; ORACLE Database

Description The tool monitors and analyzes daily millions of recorded

measurement data through algorithms in realtime. If the

measured data shows critical development or deviation a

visual alarm will be triggered.

Planning and development of a semi-automatic installation tool for the

IBS CAQ=QSYS software

Year 2012 - 2014

Company IBS AG / Siemens AG - Germany

Technologies C#; ORACLE Database; MS SQL-Server

Description Planned as an internal installation tool for our service

engineers it has grown to such a handy and mighty tool

it’s in the meantime even used by enterprise customers

too.

Lead developer of an ERP<>Webshop-Interface

Year 2010; 2011

Company VARIO Softwareentwicklung GmbH - Germany

Technologies PHP; Delphi 2005; Firebird SQL; MySQL; SOAP;

xt:Commerce 3, 4, Gambio, Magento

Description The interfaces for different shops are working with

SOAP-Requests and FTP-File-Transfer. The interfaces are

syncing data between the webshop systems and the

inhouse ERP-System (incoming orders, order status,

addresses, products, stocks, prices etc.).

Dynamic XML-Import - Interface

Year 2010

Company M/S VisuCom GmbH - Germany

Technologies Perl, MySQL, XML, HTML, Javascript

Description For a customers order I realized a dynamic XML-Import

interface which is capable of importing product data as

well as data for the product configurator on their

website.

Final assignment apprenticeship: Interactive whiteboard

Year 2009

Company VARIO Softwareentwicklung GmbH - Germany

Technologies Delphi 7; Windows Driver Development; Infrared camera

(Nintendo Wii Remote); Bluetooth

Description My final assignment comprised the planning,

documentation and realization of an interactive

whiteboard. The whiteboard worked as follows. A

projector shows the PC screen on the wall and a infrared

camera (Nintendo Wii Remote) observes the area for a

bright infrared light source. If a bright light source is

spotted within the projectors image the position for the

mouse cursor will be calculated and the cursor gets

positioned. The bright infrared light source was realized

with a pen which got an infrared LED at the tip.

Planning and development of a new bug tracker software

Year 2008

Company VARIO Softwareentwicklung GmbH – Germany

Technologies Delphi 2005; Firebird SQL

Description Planning and realization of a bug tracker software.

Planing and development of a new client software for the telephone

system Asterix

Year 2007 - 2008

Company VARIO Softwareentwicklung GmbH - Germany

Technologies Delphi 7; Firebird SQL

Description Planing and realization of a new client software for the

telephone system Asterix. The client was able to show

incoming and outgoing connections as well as to take

over calls, dial numbers and a internal chat functionality.

Development and maintenance of ERP-Software

Year 2006 - 2010

Company VARIO Softwareentwicklung GmbH - Germany

Technologies Delphi 5, 7, 2005; Firebird SQL

Description The development and maintenance tasks consisted of

either planning and realization of customers

requirements as of general advancements and interfaces

like Import-Export, implementing parcel carrier

interfaces and webshop replication interface).