Sebastian "rash" Gepperth

I started at AX as a UX Designer and Frontend Engineer with a mission to improve the learning curve and the first five minutes a new user has with the product. Over the years I completely redesigned the product to be more intuitive and added many rich and powerful features as Product Designer and Principal Engineer, while also guiding my colleagues through ever-evolving agile processes. As Head of Product I most recently spearheaded development of our new flagship product to make content creation at scale a breeze for our customers, combining deterministic text generation and generative AI to give copywriters the control and insights they need. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, the product team and I shipped this new product from prototyping to first production customer in just half a year and always keep up with customer requirements by working closely with our customer solution team.

During the pandemic a few friends and I saw the need for a virtual conference platform for our community and existing customers. We built venueless as an open source project and successful SaaS offering and are continously improving it and adding features.

For Onventis’ procurement platform I implemented and shipped a redesign of their catalog management component together with another new hire. Unresponsive leadership and a rigid Scrum process made me quit at the end of my trial period.

With three friends from university I founded creatale as a software agency, working for clients mainly in the medical field, creating custom applications for them and building our own game prototypes.

Starting with freelance web design, I’ve been working with a wide variety of companies, technologies and problems, from CMS like Drupal, browser-based point-of-sale systems, and desktop applications with Java or .NET. I care a lot about strong communities and diversity, doing a lot of mentoring and creating safe spaces.