Thomas Puppe
Head Of Web Development at ZEIT ONLINE
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Puppe is Head of Web Development at ZEIT ONLINE with 11 years of professional experience shaping high-traffic editorial web products from Berlin. He specializes in front-end performance and accessibility, combining hands-on engineering with team leadership to deliver fast, inclusive user experiences. His career at ZEIT spans roles from web developer to senior frontend and now head of the web team, reflecting deep institutional knowledge of large-scale publishing systems. Academically he graduated top of his class with an M.Sc. in International Media and Computing, bringing a research-oriented rigor to pragmatic product delivery. Outside the office he has a history of varied short-term projects and travel, suggesting a practical curiosity that informs his approach to cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), International Media and Computing, 1.3 (passed with distinction, top graduate of the year), Master of Science (M.Sc.), International Media and Computing, 1.3 (passed with distinction, top graduate of the year) at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
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Github Skills (33)
testing10
regression10
visual-testing10
visual-regression-testing10
backstopjs10
test-automation9
javascript8
monitoring7
frontend7
html6
preload6
cms6
mysql6
coverage5
accessibility5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ZeitOnline/frontend-monitoring
Feb 2018 - Jun 2024
Run competetive Accessibility tests and send them to a Graphite db
Contributions:3 reviews, 33 PRs, 101 pushes in 6 years 4 months
accessibility
thomaspuppe/thomaspuppe.de
Apr 2018 - Nov 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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