Tobias Forkel

Tobias Forkel

Magento Technical Lead / PHP + Magento Developer

Resume

About me

My name is Tobias Forkel. I am a Magento Technical Lead / PHP + Magento Developer and currently located in Melbourne, Australia. Before I have been working in Zurich, Switzerland and Montréal, Canada where I have developed my career at Unic AG and Gorilla Group in different positions.

I am motivated, fast learning, looking for opportunities to develop my career and work experienced acquired in my last job. I seek a challenging and rewarding position in a business area that helps me further develop my skills in a multinational dynamic and demanding company with focus on personal and professional growth.

Experience

Bravo – Creative Technology Studio, Magento Developer
2019 - present, Melbourne, Australia

Develop applications, either from scratch or by adapting existing code for Magento® 2 and October CMS. Integrate 3rd party tools and web services. Maintain high customer service levels.

  • Magento® 2 EE and CE standards and best practices
  • Magento® 2 Cloud / Adobe Commerce Cloud
  • Google Cloud
  • AWS
  • Scope and cost estimation
  • Code review and quality enhancement
  • Maintain high customer service levels
  • Troubleshooting
Retail Directions, eCommerce Developer
2019, Melbourne, Australia

Maintain existing custom build eCommerce platform based on PHP, C# and .NET.

  • Technical documentation
  • Code review and quality enhancement
  • Cost estimation
  • Customer support
  • Troubleshoot defects
Convert Digital, Magento Technical Lead
2018, Melbourne, Australia

Develop applications for Magento® 1 and 2 and extending existing modules to meet business requirements. Maintain high customer service levels. Integrate 3rd party tools and web services. Prioritize and proactively manage the tickets that come through the queue.

  • Technical guidance
  • Scope and cost estimation
  • Code review and quality enhancement
  • Analytical approach in new and existing shops
  • Customer support
  • Troubleshoot defects
Convert Digital, Magento Developer
2016 - 2018, Melbourne, Australia

Maintenance and troubleshooting of Magento® 1 and 2 clients. Develop applications for Magento® 1 and 2 and extending existing modules to meet business requirements. Integrate 3rd party tools and web services. Diagnosis and the resolution of any functional or visual issues. Maintain high customer service levels. Prioritize and proactively manage the tickets that come through the queue.

  • Technical guidance
  • Scope and cost estimation
  • Code review and quality enhancement
  • Analytical approach in new and existing shops
  • Keeping up to date with emerging technologies
  • Customer support
  • Troubleshoot defects
Gorilla Group, PHP Developer
2014 - 2015, Montréal, Canada

Maintenance and troubleshooting of Magento® 1 Enterprise clients. Develop applications from scratch or by adapting existing software to meet business requirements. Diagnosis and the resolution of any functional or visual issues. Maintain high customer service levels. Prioritize and proactively manage the tickets that come through the queue.

  • Concept creation
  • Scope and cost estimation
  • Customer support
  • Troubleshoot defects
  • Process optimization
Unic AG, Professional Application Engineer
2012 - 2014, Zurich, Switzerland

Coordination of tasks within and between teams. Maintenance and troubleshooting of running TYPO3 environments, concept creation and costs estimations for new projects or existing applications. A competent contact partner for almost all TYPO3 customers in first, second and third level support.

  • Concept creation
  • Scope and cost estimation
  • Custom shops with high specifications
  • Analytical approach in new and existing shops
  • Keeping up to date with emerging technologies
  • Customer relations
  • Customer support
  • Troubleshoot defects
  • Process optimization
Unic AG, Web Engineer
2007 - 2012, Zurich, Switzerland

Mainly maintenance and troubleshooting of running TYPO3 and Magento® environments, concept creation and costs estimations for new projects or existing applications. A competent contact partner for almost all TYPO3 customers in first, second and third level support.

  • Concept creation
  • Scope and cost estimation
  • Custom shops with high specifications
  • Analytical approach in new and existing shops
  • Keeping up to date with emerging technologies
  • Customer support
  • Troubleshoot defects
Unic AG, Trainee
2006, Zurich, Switzerland
  • TYPO3
  • Troubleshoot defects
  • Studying

Education

  • 2005 - 2007
    b.i.b International College

    Education: Software Engineering
    Location: Dresden, Germany
    Field: C++, C#, PHP, Databases, Software Engineering

  • 2002 - 2004
    Konrad Wachsmann Oberstufenzentrum

    Education: Automation and computer technology
    Location: Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
    Field: Electrical Engineering, Metrology, Programming (SPS), Automation Technology, Computer Technology

Awards

  • 2012
    Best of Swiss Web Awards 2012

    Websites: m.laax.com / m.flims.com
    Category: Usability Gold, Creation Bronze
    Task: Templating, troubleshooting and import of multi-language content

Professional Skills

E-Commerce
Magento® 1
Magento® 2
Shopify

CMS
October CMS
TYPO3
MODx
Drupal
WordPress
Grav

Frameworks
Laravel
Symfony
Zend MVC
jQuery
Bootstrap 4

Deployments
Bitbucket Pipelines
Octopus
Deployer

Hosting
Google Compute Engine
AWS EC2, AWS ECS
Traditional LAMP
Adobe Commerce Cloud

Languages
PHP
SQL
C++
Java
C#
Shell

Virtualization
Docker
VMware

E-Mail
Templating
Mailchimp
SendGrid, Mailgun®

Mobile
Responsive
PhoneGap
Content
SMS Gateways

API
Google Cloud API
Google Analytics
Google Maps
Google Site Search
Strava


Payment
Stripe
PayPal
SendOwl

Versioning
Git, Bitbucket, SVN

Graphic
Adobe Photoshop
GIMP

Server
Linux (Setup, Maintenance)
Windows (Setup, Maintenance)
Microsoft Sharepoint

Other
Troubleshooting

Personal Skills

  • Teamwork
  • Creativity
  • Organization
  • Communication
  • Learning

Languages

  • German
  • English

Portfolio

Gorilla Group, Montréal

A short list of my work during my time at Gorilla Group.

Unic AG, Zurich

A short list of my work during my time at Unic AG.

Modules

For further Magento® modules please checkout my GitHub repository.

Debugger (M2)

This Magento® 2 module allows your developer team to view the latest report file from ./var/report/ or download the entire log and report folder as a tar file.

Magenizr - Debugger It's free

Version 1.0.0 (2018/08/18)
Compatibility Magento: 2.x
GitHub

Custom Shipping (M2)

This Magento® 2 module allows you to provide a custom shipping method in backend only, frontend only or both.

Magenizr - Custom Shopping It's free

Version 1.0.0 (2018/08/25)
Compatibility Magento: 2.x
GitHub

Maintenance Alerts (M1)

Display a simple maintenance alert on top of your Magento® environment and lower your bounce rate by telling your customers that they should come back in case of serious technical problems or upcoming maintenance work.

Magento - Maintenance Alert $5.00 USD

Version 1.0.0 (2015/10/31)
Compatibility Magento: 1.9.x
Warranty
  • 90 days after purchase
  • Warranty includes technical defects and conflicts with "core" modules or other Magento core functionalities
  • Warranty does not include conflicts with other "community" or "local" modules
Updates
  • All micro, minor and major updates are available for free and will send out by email to all previous buyers.
Support This module is provided as-is, with no support. If you have any issues with this module, please contact me.
Documentation
Price $5.00 USD (incl. tax)
Purchase and Download

Bars (M1)

Add a customizable notification bar on the top of your Magento® Admin Panel. No excuse for excitedly changed settings in the Magento admin panel. This module will let all participants know on what environment they are working.

Magento - Maintenance Alert It's free

Version 1.0.2 (2016/03/19)
Compatibility Magento: 1.9.x
Download