About Me

Hey, I am Housein Abo Shaar, a Full-Stack Web Developer, currently living in Vienna, Austria.

I taught myself how to code as a hobby, and it escallated into a full-time career.

Work Experience

Vendure GmbH • June 2025 - Present [6 mos]

Growth Engineer and Developer Advocate

Contributed to the Open Source core by building features and maintaining the codebase, while also creating educational content and technical documentation that helped developers use it.
This role expanded my scope beyond just writing code, requiring me to upskill in areas like design, writing, and content creation.

Node.jsTypeScriptNestJsTypeORMPostgreSQLReactTailwind CSS

Development & Open Source Contribution

Developed
Github repository
Vendure MCP AI agentic editing
integration
Refactored and introduced
Github repository
CLI features
used platform-wide within the first month of employment
Built integrations for
Documentation
CMS
,
Documentation
SSO
,
Documentation
S3
, and other third-party services and created guides and documentation for them
Developed features, refactored legacy code, and optimized test suites

Content & Documentation

Wrote technical documentation and platform guides
Created videos, blog articles, and educational content
Designed
I drew the graphics you see on this page
graphics and illustrations
for branding
Increased page activity by ~70% and user engagement through content creation on LinkedIn

FONDS professionell • February 2023 – May 2025 [2 yrs 3 mos]

Frontend Web Developer

Started my career as a Web Developer where I got the chance to work on various projects and tasks.

HTMLCSSJavaScriptTYPO3NeosCMSPHPPhotoshopIllustratorMySQLPythonGoogle Ad ManagerMautic

ENPULSION GmbH • September 2021 – January 2023 [1 yr 4 mos]

Mechatronics Technician

Accomplished the achievement of making something destined for outer space. Responsibilities included equipment maintenance, procedure documentation, satellite assembly, and quality assurance.

BIFI - Vienna • June 2020 – September 2021 [1 yr 3 mos]

Mechatronics Apprentice

My first job and step in the job market. Focus on introductory mechatronics training.

Tech Stack & Skills

Web Development

Frontend: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, React, Next.js, Vite, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, Svelte

Backend: Node.js, MySQL, PHP, Python

Design

Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer

Tooling

Git, GitHub, Jest, Docker, Playwright, Lua, Shell Scripts

Knowledge & Expertise

Responsive Web Design, Test-Driven Development, Version Control (Git), Object-Oriented & Functional Programming, Documentation, CMS platforms (NeosCMS, TYPO3)