Eric Höppner

Hi, I am a Technical Lead Manager with a strong frontend background and more than 10 years of experience building modern, scalable and user friendly web applications. I like to stay close to the code while leading teams, so my day to day work is a mix of hands on engineering, mentoring, and making sure what we build actually solves business problems.

A few things I have done especially in the last years: introduced TypeScript across teams and projects, modernized build tools (for example migrations from Webpack to Vite and from Jest to Vitest), increased test coverage to make releases safer and faster, and helped build and evolve React based shared component libraries. On the platform side I focus on creating a smooth developer experience by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, integrating static analysis tools like SonarQube, and establishing guidelines that keep large codebases maintainable as they scale.

I care a lot about clean and maintainable code, accessibility and customer focused solutions. I try to make technical changes easy to adopt by pushing for semantic versioning, good documentation and migration guides instead of surprise breaking changes.

My sweet spot is somewhere between senior or staff level engineer and technical frontline manager. I like to set guardrails for architecture and design systems, help others to do their best work, and still be able to jump into a pull request or a tricky bug when it matters.

When I am not dealing with frontends, pipelines or shared libraries, I usually play around with game ideas and the Godot engine. And in between all of that I navigate the usual adventures of marriage and being a dad. In short: I like to build things, improve them over time and make life a bit easier for the people I work with.