Dominique Stender Good software is only the beginning…

About me

I am an IT system architect and manager with a very strong technical background in online application development. Of German origin, I'm an Indian resident since May 2009.

With over ten years of experience in the eBusiness industry I'm regularly involved in every aspect of enterprise-scale database driven eCommerce systems.

My experience focuses on the typical LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), but as it is with enterprise projects I've come across many other technologies like J2EE, C and C++, Perl, Oracle, Sybase and many others. Frameworks and products including but not limited to Zend Framework, jQuery, Magento, TYPO3.

I am a certified Scrum Master and an active Scrum practitioner for several years now. As such I was and continue to be in charge of the successful adoption of the agile methodology Scrum in several teams and projects.

Being employed the leading eBusiness supplier in Germany as well as our Indian sister company I am responsible for the development of our internal eCommerce framework, which is in active use by many of Europe's larger retail companies since 2005. My second designation with the company is the on-site coordination between the offices in Stuttgart, Germany and Bangalore, India.

I'm convinced that the future of online business lies in widespread adoption of agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, improvements in time-to-market through concepts like test automation and continuous integration on the technical side, as well as the successful utilization of the new possibilities offered by the now omni present mobile commerce and social networks.