Alex Jank

About Alex

Alex started writing software at twelve — PHP, self-taught, to maintain his school's website. Even before that, he knew he wanted to become an entrepreneur in IT. 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.

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.

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. And what could be worse than the internals of API Platform?" The approach proved right. In 2022 he crossed paths with Benedikt on a shared Shopware project — and in 2023 the two founded today's nuonic Digital GmbH & Co. KG.

Focus areas

Architecture & technology decisions. Alex has seen many systems from the inside — grown ones, tangled ones, and genuinely good ones. That's exactly why he can assess software architecture quickly and reliably: which decision still holds up in five years, and which one gets expensive?

DevOps. There are few DevOps engineers who also know this much Shopware and architecture. Alex factors deployment, operations, and infrastructure in from day one — not as an afterthought following the final sprint.

Performance — end to end. Not just "which code runs faster", but the whole picture: What is an LCP? How should fonts be loaded? How do you keep images small, what do you do with icons — and how do you cache properly without trading one problem for another?

Integrations. Often unglamorous — transforming data and batching it differently — but decisive in almost every project. Alex builds them so they don't spring surprises in production.

Beyond the code

Alex lives in Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich and is a regular at the Shopware Stammtisch Munich — that's where he test-drove his SCUC talk in 2025. He balances work with the gym and running, cycling and the water — swimming as well as sailing — and cooking. And whenever nuonic needs graphics or photos, his brother occasionally helps out with a marketing eye.