Dominique Stender

Dominique Stender is an IT system architect and manager with a very strong technical background in online application development. Of German origin, he's an Indian resident since May 2009.

With over ten years of experience in the eBusiness industry Dominique is regularly involved in every aspect of enterprise-scale database driven eCommerce systems.

His experience focuses on the typical LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), but as it is with enterprise projects Dominique has come across many other technologies like J2EE, C and C++, Perl, Oracle, Sybase and many others. Frameworks and products including but not limited to Zend Framework, jQuery, Magento, TYPO3.

Dominique is active Scrum practitioner for several years now and finished the Scrum Master & Product Owner certifications with the ScrumAlliance in 2009 and 2010, respectively. As such he was and continues to be in charge of the successful adoption of the agile methodology Scrum in several teams and projects.

Being employed the leading eBusiness supplier in Germany as well as our Indian sister company Dominique is responsible for the development of his employees' internal eCommerce framework, which is in active use by many of Europe's larger retail companies since 2005. His second designation with the company is the on-site coordination between the offices in Stuttgart, Germany and Bangalore, India.

Dominique is convinced that the future of online business lies in widespread adoption of agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, improvements in time-to-market through concepts like test automation and continuous integration on the technical side, as well as the successful utilization of the new possibilities offered by the now omni present mobile commerce and social networks.