Dr. Leif Singer

Dr. Leif Singer is a Full-Stack Developer who has been developing for the web since 1996 in various roles including as an employee, contractor, freelancer, and co-founder.

He has experience in building solutions from ideation to maintenance and has worked on deployments with millions of users using technologies like PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Django, and Rails.

In addition to his work as a developer, Dr. Singer has also excelled as an Engineering Manager and Product Manager where he introduced practices to improve collaboration, utilized market and user research for project management, and coordinated efforts with other teams while measuring impact.

As an experienced remote worker since 2014, he has adapted to diverse work environments with colleagues from 93 countries, leveraging his academic research on developer collaboration to enhance remote work practices.

Dr. Singer has a strong mentoring background, having coached and mentored software engineers, software architects, and students from BSc to PhD levels.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Software Engineering, an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Throughout his career, Dr. Singer has held various roles in organizations such as HERO Software, Woo, Automattic, IDoneThis, University of Victoria, Freelancer, A&L GmbH, and wap3 Technologies GmbH.