Vera Scheunert

Manage and mentor a diverse team, fostering a collaborative culture and aligning with business needs.

Develop and evangelize unified frontend standards—encompassing branch policies, feature flags, clean code principles, and robust testing practices—to maintain high-quality code across the team.

Participate in critical architectural decisions, champion code reviews, and oversee DevOps implementations to ensure scalable, efficient, and reliable applications.

Build technical roadmaps and coordinate closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and senior engineering leaders to prioritize initiatives, manage cross-team dependencies, and meet quarterly goals.

Introduce initiatives such as a tech debt guild and automated E2E testing (migrating from Cypress to Playwright) to continuously shift quality left and empower team ownership of project success.

Optimized SQL queries within a high-traffic API for improved performance and reliability through query reduction, strategic indexing, and effective use of joins.

Engineered a robust error masking solution for GraphQL endpoints using Slonik and Envelop, safeguarding sensitive data and enhancing security protocols.

Integrated a gRPC client for serving high-detail geometrical polygon data, enabling efficient data transmission and reducing response times for complex queries.

Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, reducing redundant tests by 40% and automating deployments for streamlined release cycles.

Integrated error monitoring tools (Sentry, Grafana) to track performance, diagnose production issues, and enhance system stability.

Achieved ~80% test coverage across React components using Jest and Cypess, (later Playwright), ensuring robust and maintainable code.

Founded and led the company-wide Junior Committee, creating cross-departmental networking and professional development opportunities.

Implemented Playwright as the main end-to-end testing framework in collaboration with QA, addressing cross-team integration challenges.

Delivered new features for the web banking app, demonstrating quick adaptation to emerging technologies.

Migrated blog styling from Sass to Tailwind CSS, simplifying maintenance and boosting UI consistency.

Developed a Nest.js-based REST API for authentication, OAuth, and end-to-end tested services.

Built a flexible typing and scripting system for the platform’s component-entity architecture, enabling runtime type checks and custom logic.

Engineered reconnection flows and state management (webSocket, WebRTC) to enhance streaming reliability across a CQRS microservice architecture.