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While still at school he read books on software architecture and tried out everything he could get his hands on; Visual Basic .NET followed PHP, and before graduating he built his first online shop — an ice hockey store, first with Gambio, then with xt:Commerce.",[129,293,294],{},"After three semesters of business informatics (the business part was the more interesting one), he chose practice over the lecture hall: a trainer qualification (AEVO), the external examination as a certified IT specialist for application development — and years of custom software built with Symfony and Nuxt.js. Among them: construction-progress tracking for housing projects, the admin interface of a restaurant ordering, reservation and delivery platform, an idea portal, and a web-to-print solution.",[129,296,297],{},"Shopware entered the picture in 2021. The first client ran on Shopware 5 — Alex didn't know Shopware at the time, but signed on anyway: \"It's Symfony after all. 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