SVEN KLASSEN Technical / Development Lead

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Sven Klassen, Technical / Development Lead from Karlsruhe

// About

About Sven Klassen — Hello there!

My name is Sven Klassen, and I come from a small town in southwestern Germany, situated between Karlsruhe, Mannheim, and Heidelberg.

I began my career at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), where my boss discouraged me by stating that I wasn't good at IT and would not be able to achieve my goals. However, after eight years of hard work and dedication to web development and IT, I became highly successful in my field. This experience led me to aspire to become a better leader than the ones I had encountered in the past. I believe that employees are the most important asset of any organization, and that it is my responsibility as a leader to serve them.

As a servant leader, I aim to help my employees grow by providing an environment that fosters intrinsic motivation and enables them to perform at their best. This approach creates a win-win situation for both the company and its employees, as a motivated and engaged workforce ultimately leads to better outcomes for everyone involved.

// What I do

Skills & Experience

years

Leadership

  • Disciplinary Leadership
  • Technical Leadership
  • Agile Leadership
  • Conflict Management
  • Solution-Oriented Thinking
  • Employee Development

years

Business & Requirements Engineering

  • Basic Knowledge
  • Scope, Context and Interfaces
  • Requirement-Types and their descriptions
  • Requirement documentation
  • Requirement administration and maintenance

years

Web Development

  • HTML5, SCSS/SASS, npm
  • Pattern Libraries like PatternLab
  • ECMAScript 6 and frameworks like jQuery, Google Closure, ExtJS, Sencha Touch, React
  • 3D-Development with BabylonJS and Three.JS
  • PHP-Development, including frameworks like Zend and Laravel
  • CMS-Development with WordPress and TYPO3

// References

Selected Projects

All projects below were completed during my time as an employee at the respective companies — work shipped all by myself or in collaboration with the teams I was part of.

// Get in touch

Let's build something that matters.

I'm always happy to talk about web, teams, leadership & tech — drop me a line.

hello@svenklassen.de