STIHL Design System
2024-present
Building and maintaining STIHL's design system: accessible React components, documentation and testing that keep product teams consistent and fast.
Senior Web Engineer
Anton Schmidt
I'm a senior frontend engineer with a passion for clean, maintainable and performant code. Eight-plus years turning demanding briefs from Porsche, Eurowings and others into polished, well-tested products, and I love mentoring the people I build them with.
Experience
8+ years as a web engineer, from rapid prototypes to production design systems for demanding brands.
Mentoring & sharing
I promote knowledge transfer and open-source software. Coaching frontend developers is the part of the job I enjoy most.
AI in the workflow
Modern LLM tooling (Claude, Cursor, MCP) used where it genuinely speeds delivery, always behind solid quality gates.
Background
A little context.
I've been into tech for as long as I can remember and turned that into a career on the web. My work sits mostly in design systems, scalable frontend applications and data-heavy tools, the kind of projects where clean architecture and real performance actually matter. Outside work I tinker with hardware and 3D printing, and every now and then I write about it.
Languages
German (native), English (C2), Russian (native).
Education
M.Sc. International Media and Computing, HTW Berlin. Final grade 1.25, with honours.
Trusted by
Teams and brands I've delivered for.
- Porsche
- Eurowings
- Audi
- Siemens
- STIHL
- BASF
Selected work
A selection. A lot of my work sits behind NDAs, so this is only the shareable part.
Porsche Design System
2020-2022
Framework-agnostic Web Components, Sketch libraries and usage guidelines that let Porsche's teams build aesthetic, high-quality web apps to a very high bar.
Eurowings Test Data Tool
2022-2024
An internal tool for Eurowings Digital that slashed test-data creation time and lifted QA efficiency across web development.
Sounce · AI noise detection
2019
A web app for AI-based noise detection in endurance tests inside a climate chamber, with live sensory visualisation of temperature, humidity and anomalies.
Crash-test Data Visualization
2019
Visualised massive sensory data from car crash tests and generated PDF reports for EU regulators, complete with images and measurements for vehicle approval.
Skills
The short version.
- Core
- React, Next.js, TypeScript, Web Components, TanStack Query, Sass
- Testing & quality
- Vitest, Testing Library, Playwright, Cypress, Storybook, CI/CD
- Accessibility
- Semantic HTML, ARIA patterns, WCAG, axe
- Platform
- Node.js, Docker, AWS (CloudFront, S3, Lambda)
I like explicit component APIs and CSS you can still read next year. Tailwind and I have agreed to work on separate projects.
Let's talk
I'm a senior frontend engineer based in Germany, working remotely, and open to interesting projects, freelance or permanent. I'm most useful on design systems, complex data-heavy UIs and teams that care about quality and want someone to mentor along the way. Email is the quickest way to reach me.