[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":87},["ShallowReactive",2],{"home_en":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":12,"extension":26,"headline":27,"meta":28,"milestones":29,"navigation":33,"path":82,"seo":83,"stem":84,"timelineTitle":85,"__hash__":86},"home_en\u002Fen\u002Fhome.md","Gereon Goldbach",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":22},"minimark",[9,13,16,19],[10,11,12],"p",{},"As a full-stack developer, I build frontend, backend, and REST APIs – my tool of choice is Laravel.",[10,14,15],{},"For fast, modern websites I primarily rely on Astro and Nuxt today, and on headless CMS like Strapi and Sanity on the backend.",[10,17,18],{},"JavaScript frameworks like Vue as well as libraries like Alpine.js and vanilla JS are firmly rooted in my daily work. For styling I mainly use Tailwind, occasionally Bootstrap.",[10,20,21],{},"On my unusual career path – from hospitality through my own companies to software development – I gained a lot of business experience: from writing a business plan to managing entire projects. More on that in the timeline below.",{"title":23,"searchDepth":24,"depth":24,"links":25},"",2,[],"md","Full-stack developer, tech & business generalist, and entrepreneurial lateral thinker with over four decades of experience in digital transformation.",{},[30,37,42,47,51,56,60,65,70,74,78],{"year":31,"category":32,"current":33,"paragraphs":34},"Today","tech",true,[35,36],"Creating websites and developing custom frontend, backend, and API solutions for new and existing applications.","Leading projects across a variety of fields.",{"year":38,"category":39,"current":33,"paragraphs":40},"2020","hotel",[41],"Opening of THE17 · Serviced Apartments Cologne.",{"year":43,"category":44,"paragraphs":45},"2016","gastro",[46],"Opening of Work. Meet. Eat. – concept store and pop-up store in Cologne.",{"year":48,"category":44,"paragraphs":49},"2010",[50],"Opening of Kolbs im Kulturquartier – eight years as owner of a museum catering business in Cologne.",{"year":52,"category":32,"paragraphs":53},"2005",[54,55],"I used my sales & marketing experience from the hotel industry to build my own price comparison system for hotel bookings – complete with my own data warehouse system, web crawler, and booking engine (IBE).","This gave rise to the company HTRS (Hotel & Ticket Reservation System).",{"year":57,"category":39,"paragraphs":58},"2001",[59],"Hotel Manager Rooms, Sales & Marketing at the Kosmos Hotel Cologne – repositioning of sales & marketing, business plan, and yield management for 161 rooms and two conference rooms.",{"year":61,"category":62,"paragraphs":63},"1997","finanz",[64],"Supervisor Fleet Accounting, Controlling & Finance at AVIS Rent a Car Germany – accounts receivable accounting and asset management for around 40,000 vehicles per year.",{"year":66,"category":32,"paragraphs":67},"1994",[68,69],"Founded my first company, Goldsoft – software development and server management. With the switch to dBase and Clipper, I was able to offer the software as multi-user and network-capable.","At the same time, I moved into a role as sales manager for conferences and congresses at the Hotel Intercontinental Frankfurt.",{"year":71,"category":39,"paragraphs":72},"1990",[73],"Moved into the hotel industry: hotel vocational school in Bad Reichenhall, followed by training as a hotel manager at the Hotel Intercontinental Frankfurt.",{"year":75,"category":62,"paragraphs":76},"1987",[77],"Training as a tax and business consulting assistant. At the same time, I built my first professional applications for asset management, accounting, and controlling with QuickBasic, and set up and installed my first networks with MS-DOS.",{"year":79,"category":32,"paragraphs":80},"1982",[81],"It all started with the Sinclair ZX81 computer. I developed my first games and programs for the CP\u002FM and DOS operating systems using the programming languages Basic, Pascal, and Assembler.","\u002Fen\u002Fhome",{"title":5,"description":12},"en\u002Fhome","Milestones","uHUXHlz0P3On_Cg_DSDKlTXOi0xnh0VIDZpPflmtQKc",1785047747328]