Stefan HothAn experienced developer gone servant leader who cares deeply about people, processes & values.
The things I care about
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I'm a manager and leader with hands-on experience in a range of technologies and environments with teams of up to twelve professionals, regularly including remote team members. Most recently, I've joined ResearchGate as an Engineering Manager for their Frontend Infrastructure team.
I firmly believe in robust processes as the foundation of success for any organisation. Caring for the team & adherence to strong values can make this success last.
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I'm connecting the world of science and making research open to all.
About me
I’m a manager and leader with hands-on experience in a range of technologies and environments with teams of up to twelve professionals, regularly including remote team members. Most recently, I’ve joined ResearchGate, a professional network for scientists and researchers, managing the Frontend Infrastructure Team.
Prior to that, I ran the German arm of a successful digital agency, managing the operational aspects of an office of 15 employees, handled the earliest stages of client relationship development, and oversaw our local teams, projects and clients.
I firmly believe in robust processes as the foundation of success for any organisation. Caring for the team & adherence to strong values can make this success last.
As an Engineering Manager I’m laser-focused on these three aspects of my team(s):
PEOPLE, PROCESS & CULTURE.
Why I think these concerns are most relevant to my role I’ve laid out in this article.
About ResearchGate
ResearchGate provides me with the environment I found I’m working at my best:
Learning and personal growth are supported and encouraged
Internal knowledge transfer, community participation via meetups & conferences as well as “let’s just try this different approach” are common practices.
Career development and a culture of feedback
are understood as a means of high employee engagement & retention and organizational strength.
Trust in individuals and teams
Reliance on the people who are closest to the problem to find the right solution reduces the risk of bottlenecks and a lack of innovation.
Seventeen people founded c-base e. V. in the autumn of 1995. In the years 2002 and 2003 the BerlinBackBone project was launched to make available and promote free public access to the internet via wireless community networks.
c-base is recognized as one of the first hackerspaces in the world. It, along with Metalab, directly influenced the creation of hackerspaces in the US.
Since then c-base has become a melting pot for musicians, activists, nerds, geeks, programmers, gamers, technologists and weekend party folks. With it’s special story and unique assembly of people it’s certainly not an everyday experience.
(This is a Berlin clone of the original NYC Hack and Tell Meetup Group!) If you’ve ever visited Hacker News, you’ve almost certainly seen the “Show HN” or “Ask HN” posts. Well, it’s time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We’ll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea.
We’ll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We’re language and software/hardware agnostic, so it’s all fair game.
After you present, it’s an open forum. The audience will ask questions and provide feedback. We want to enable as much participation as possible at these meetups, so you’d better be able to take criticism and dish it out (all within reason of course).
