About
Hi, I’m Lennart 👋
I’m a designer turned software engineer from Darmstadt, Germany. I currently work at Netlify in the “Frameworks” team.
I’m passionate about working on open source projects & making the web more inclusive through them.
My OSS code has been used by thousands of people & I regularly share educational content in the form of posts, presentations, and videos.
What I’m passionate about
Similarly to how I learned everything about design, 3D art, and photography I’m a self-taught developer. Online developer communities, OSS projects, educators sharing their knowledge (for free & paid), mentors, colleagues, and friends – all those people helped me get to where I am today. And I’m very grateful for that. Early on I also helped out people, contributed to OSS projects and published my own projects on GitHub. That’s how I realized that I enjoy technical writing (e.g. public facing documentation), creating educational content and managing & interacting with communities. I deeply care about inclusivity & accessibility both in the communication with people and the content (e.g. website/documentation) itself.
Work
I work at Netlify in the “Frameworks” team. Our job is to make every framework seamlessly work on Netlify. Through Netlify’s acquisition of Gatsby I’m continuing to maintain the Gatsby framework. Together with my colleagues I implement bug fixes, performance improvements, new features, and review issues & PRs to help >300k users build websites.
You can see my projects overview for more technical details.
Hobbies
If I’m not coding I like to spend my time with playing tennis & hiking in the mountains. I then often take my camera with me to take landscape photos and also particularly enjoy editing the photos at the computer afterwards. I also enjoy creating other forms of art such as 3D art or UI design. Lastly, my kindle is always filled with fantasy & sci-fi books 📚.
Bio: Short version
Lennart is a designer turned software engineer who is passionate about working on open source projects & making the web more inclusive through them. In the past Lennart has worked on Gatsby and his own open source projects with a particular focus on DX and documentation. When away from the keyboard, Lennart can be found hiking in the mountains, doing landscape photography, or reading fantasy & sci-fi books.
