Ausgezeichnet.org

A rating and review service integrated with Google Reviews, built on Symfony with MongoDB behind Doctrine.

Collaborated directly with the Product Owner on new business ideas and implemented them — which also meant proposing best practice and pointing out technical limits before they were built into a commitment.

Redesigned the whole site, and introduced automated CI/CD on GitHub Actions and Docker so releases stopped being events.

Spent deliberate time reducing accumulated technical debt rather than routing around it, because the feature rate was already being set by it.

This was my longest single engagement and the first where I was close enough to the product decisions to disagree with them usefully. Spotting that a request will cost more than it returns — and saying so before it's built — turned out to be worth more than implementing it quickly.