Felix Mennen

Quando você começou a trabalhar no Echometer?

Félix: I worked as a freelancer in 2019 and started full-time in summer 2020.

Qual é a sua experiência profissional anterior?

Félix: I completed a dual study program in Business Informatics at Bertelsmann in Gütersloh. Afterwards, I worked for two years as a full-time app developer at a Bertelsmann subsidiary before joining Echometer.

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No Echometer

O que você gosta em trabalhar na Echometer?

Félix: Definitely our culture. Everyone can openly talk about challenges and mistakes without judgment. Instead, you get helpful and motivating feedback that helps you grow. 💪

If you could write your own job title, what would it be?

Félix: Probably something like “Full-Stack & UI/UX Developer.” My main role is development, working in every part of our infrastructure.

Your favorite retrospective method or team workshop?

Félix: I love the “Keep, Stop, Start” retro. It’s simple, grounded, and always delivers good results.

Your personal highlight at Echometer?

Félix: Validating a major mockup for a complete redesign of our retro flow. We received great feedback, which showed us we’re working on the right challenges.

Como foi sua primeira semana no Echometer?

Félix: I quickly realized that I was now much more responsible for the outcome of my work than before.

Your biggest or funniest fuckup at Echometer?

Félix: A customer complained that emails weren’t arriving. Logs showed errors that caused users to be blacklisted. I removed them from the blacklist intending to investigate afterwards — not knowing logs were only stored for six days. Since the issue was older, all evidence disappeared once I removed the blacklist entries.

O que você aprendeu de interessante no Echometer?

Félix: A lot — but especially GraphQL. It changed how our frontend (and we as developers) interact with the backend.

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Equipe

Como seus amigos descreveriam você em 3 palavras?

Félix: Logical, Funny, Relaxed.

What values drive you?

Félix: Work takes up a huge part of our lives — we should make the best of it and support others in doing the same.

Quais são seus hobbies?

Félix:

• Gaming with friends
• Inline skating through Münster
• Skill-based hobbies like pen spinning or solving a Rubik’s Cube
• Looking forward to going to the gym again after the pandemic

Uma foto de você quando criança?

Félix: This is me — minus the beard.