Alexander Uitz

Engineering Leadership Across Web, Backend & Mobile

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Computer scientist with huge passion for creating great & valuable products based on bleeding edge technology by also embedding and promoting agile ways of working while focusing on team health, fun and collaboration.

Experience

  • MediaMarktSaturn Technology (Full-time · 3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Head of StoreApps & ConsumerApp Platforms
      Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

    • Head of Payment & Basket Platform
      Jan 2023 - Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Joyn GmbH (Full-time · 2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Teamlead Software Engineering
      Oct 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

      I lead and manage the Web engineering team at Joyn. Our apps aggregate global and especially local German content, offering both live TV and on-demand. We value openness, transparency & collaboration. Our team is working with a bleeding edge tech stack using React, node, nextJS, Typescript and GraphQL and are committed to deliver the best user experience possible across all our platforms while making sure our team members actually have fun at work. We're hiring! https://careers.joyn.de

    • Lead Delivery Lead
      Aug 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      As Agile Delivery Lead I'm responsible of ensuring a smooth delivery of new features from inception phase to production. In addition I take the role of a Scrum Master and Agile Coach depending on the needs and maturity of the teams. I'm promoting and ensuring agile ways of working, taking care of dependency and risk management including internal as well as external stakeholder management. Furthermore I'm working as Agile Project Manager managing several high profile projects like product migrations, product sell-offs and launches of new platforms by bringing together necessary cross functional departments & teams, external partners and stakeholders taking care of the roadmap, requirements and successful on-time delivery within an agile environment.

  • Senior IT Consultant at Netlight
    Oct 2017 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    During my time as a IT Consultant I've been working in different roles in different industries. My major contributions were working as an Software Engineer and QA Lead in a FinTech company in which I was leading a initiative to bring Engineers, QA Engineers and Integration Tester closer together to ensure faster delivery times and at the same time increase the quality of the increments being shipped which required cross department collaboration, requirement & roadmap creation. Furthermore I've been assigned to a project within the media industry as an Agile Delivery Lead ensuring the launch of a german streaming service within six months by ensuring (scaled) agile ways of working, focusing on dependency management, risk management and deliveries of bi-weekly increments without sacrificing on quality or team health.

  • QA Automation Engineer at intive Kupferwerk
    Jan 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Web-Entwickler at Continental
    2014 - 2015 · 1 yr