Hi, I’m Anselm. I help teams and companies become more effective and create beautiful, fast and accessible web experiences that humans will love. Hire me as freelancer:

  • if your team has challenges achieving goals or sticking to workflows
  • if you want to build solid products that work as your customers expect it
  • if you want me to fix accessibility, performance issues or scaling your codebase
  • if you want me to coach your frontend teams to become better engineers

I’m in the industry since 2004, so far have worked with large companies and teams, spoke at events, wrote several articles and books and my customers and colleagues highly appreciate my work.

Read more about my services or Send me an email to work together

Engineering Excellence

I have helped many teams already to have better workflows, reliable toolchains and solid code quality. By understanding the requirements, needs and goals of Product Management, developers and the customers I’m able to fix the remaining problems in workflows.

When working with the teams, I do code reviews, code myself and implement features or fix bugs and coach people while doing that. In the end, I deeply integrate into the team and transfer my knowledge to the company. That usually leads to great results and a happier team and company.

The solutions I could do the architecture for have a robust architecture with modern technologies while working with the web platform instead of working around or trying to copy paste solutions from the web or AI agents. Using Agentic AI can be a benefit for teams but we need to set the environment so this works for us and does not fire back quickly.

Email me to discuss your case

Lean Workflow Coaching

Scrum, Kanban, Agile, Lean — it does not matter which term you prefer but what works for your team. With quite some experience in Agile Management and Engineering Management in a variety of companies I’m able to find the best methods for your case and adopt the new workflow together with the team.

If you really want to unblock yourself and commit the company to do this, we’re going to be faster and more reliable on the business side while the team will be calmer, happier and more committed to the goals on the human side.

I was certified Scrum Master (expired) but more importantly have personal recommendations by Agile Influencers and Engineering Management people I worked with around the world.

Email me to check what I can do for your team

Connect on LinkedIn

Read my thoughts on web development and tech news, some of my achievements and send me a message via LinkedIn if you prefer over email.

Connect on LinkedIn

Podcasting

For several years, I was one of the hosts who record the Workingdraft podcast. It is one of the best known podcasts for the developer community in Germany and from time to time also features international guests.

Workingdraft Edition 696 »Was macht eigentlich… Anselm Hannemann?«
Wir reden darüber, wie ich zum Programmieren kam, warum ich manchmal als Freelancer Manager bin, meine Strategie gegen Burn-out und Ausgleich zur Arbeit und heutige Frontend Arbeit mit LLMs. Episode 696 Workingdraft
Workingdraft with Hans Reinl, Peter Kröner, Stefan Baumgartner, Christian Schäfer, Vanessa Otto and previously me
Check the biggest German frontend podcast episodes
syntax.fm with Wes Bos
Supper Club × Coding Burnout and Gardening with Anselm Hannemann
Wo wir sind ist vorne
Frontend & Feldfrüchte mit Anselm Hannemann
Neu Gierig by Marc Thiele
Aufhören wenn’s noch gut ist
Der Publishing Podcast by Heike Burch
Im Gespräch mit Anselm Hannemann

Creator of the WDRL Newsletter

I wrote a industry-leading newsletter called WDRL for ten years in which I wrote about the tech industry, our society, design, sustainable businesses and more.

With about 17k subscribers and great reputation it’s seen as one of the key newsletters in the web development industry.

View the WDRL archive

My Market Garden

I own a market garden since 2019 and grow vegetables. Check out the short documentary by the BR to see it in action:

View the Schaufel & Gabel project

Co-founder of Colloq

I worked on my own startup Colloq for four years, an event management and listing platform that helps you focus on your main work: Organizing and planning your workshops, courses, conferences or meetup. We decided to sunset Colloq in 2021 as we couldn’t find a proper way to make enough revenue for an income from the project.

Check out Colloq

Nightlybuild Conference

I was creator of the Nightlybuild conference, a nice evening conference all around frontend and UX engineering gathering 250 people. We’ve retired the event in 2018 after four successful events with well-known international speakers.

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