Konstantin Kiritsenko

Shopware Architect / Senior eCommerce Developer

Shopware- and Magento-focused eCommerce architect with 14+ years shipping enterprise commerce integrations. ~5 years hands-on Shopware 6 (2021–2026), including lead public contribution to Shopgate’s Shopware 6 cart integration and webcheckout, plus a Flow Builder–specialized plugin suite (Customer Verification Documents on the Shopware Store). Deep Magento 1/2 background, Magento 1→2 migrations, and multi-platform connectors. Known for rigid architecture standards, CI/E2E automation (Postman → Cypress → Playwright), Dockerized pipelines, and AI-assisted delivery (Cursor, Claude, Gemini CLI, Mistral, Windsurf, and others). Estonian citizen. Prefer remote; available from November 2026 (visa/logistics dependent).

Work

Senior Software Architect

Apite GmbHGermanyAug 2022 – Present

Magento and Shopware plugin architecture; production support; AI-assisted delivery.

  • Architected and maintained high-performance Magento and Shopware plugins with emphasis on structure, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Diagnosed complex production issues on third-party merchant infrastructure.
  • Automated deployment pipelines and end-to-end testing to cut release risk.
  • Drove AI-assisted implementation (2025): instruction/spec engineering to ~96% plan-to-production readiness (~4% cleanup) using Cursor, Claude, Gemini CLI, Mistral, Windsurf, Tavily, Grok Bot; today primarily authors specs/designs and directs AI coding agents.
  • Organized engineering workflows via ticketing systems (Jira-class).

Director

Component K OÜ (CKOU)EstoniaApr 2020 – Present

API-driven eCommerce services; Flow Builder plugin suite; company direction.

  • Delivered eCommerce services over API data channels; automated routine work and E2E coverage in deploy flows.
  • Specialized in Shopware 6 Flow Builder — designed a suite of Flow Builder–centric plugins with custom events, actions, and rules.
  • Published Customer Verification Documents on the Shopware Store: registration/checkout document upload, admin approval, 6 Flow Builder templates, Admin API + Store API for headless, AI-assisted document review.
  • Company direction: operations automation, AI adoption in delivery, and financial/tax strategy.

Software Architect / Lead Software Architect (US branch)

ShopgateUS (Phoenix) & Germany (Butzbach)May 2015 – Present

Cart integrations across Magento, Shopware, and other platforms; SW6 + Node/React through 2021–2026. Core employment US 2015–2017, DE 2018–2020.

  • Built merchant cart integrations across Magento 1/2, Shopware 5/6, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and additional platforms.
  • Primary engineer on Shopgate Shopware 6 cart-integration and webcheckout (thousands of LOC pre-AI; #1 public contributor); major contributor to Magento 2 integration base.
  • Delivered proprietary Node.js / React commerce experiences alongside Shopware 6.
  • Led quality transformation: Postman → Cypress → Playwright, CI on Jenkins / GitLab / GitHub, Docker (+ custom images), aggressive flakiness removal — material drop in bug/error rate.
  • Executed Magento 1 → Magento 2 migration work; enforced architecture standards on small teams (1–8).
  • Practiced Agile/Scrum; Confluence process docs; Jira ticket/flow design; New Relic (M2) and Symfony debugging (SW6).

Lead Web Developer / Engineering Manager

Vissina LLCUnited StatesDec 2012 – Mar 2015

Magento platform ownership; hiring and coaching.

  • Owned Magento platform delivery: 60+ plugins, ~100k users, ~80k SKUs, multi-site.
  • Hired and coached developers; partnered with marketing and support.
  • Integrated PayPal, FedEx, USPS, UPS, Mailchimp/Bronto, and custom solutions.
  • Performance stack: Redis, Elasticsearch, Magento caching; Vagrant/DigitalOcean/Linux/MySQL automation.

Frontend Web Developer

Knoxville InternetAug 2011 – Nov 2012

  • WordPress themes/plugins; offshore coordination and code review; production support.

Web Developer Intern

Wand Ent.Jan 2011 – May 2011

  • Flash/Flex site build; Analytics/SEO work yielding ~40% traffic lift.

IT Support Specialist / Junior Software Developer

Lake Forest College LITSep 2009 – May 2011

  • Campus IT support; psych-lab experiment tooling (MediaLab/DirectRT).

Projects

Shopgate Shopware 6 cart integration

#1 public contributor (964 commits) on shopgate/cart-integration-shopware6.

  • Thousands of lines of Shopware 6 integration code prior to AI tooling.

Customer Verification Documents (CKOU)

Shopware Store extension: document upload + admin approval, Flow Builder templates/events/actions/rules, Store API, AI-assisted review.

  • Flagship of a Flow Builder–centric plugin suite.

Education

Skills

Commerce platforms
Shopware 6 / Flow Builder / Shopware 5 / Magento 1/2 / BigCommerce / WooCommerce / Store API / REST connectors
Engineering stack
PHP 8+ / Symfony / Twig / Composer / Vue / Node.js / React / MySQL / Redis / Elasticsearch
Delivery & DevOps
Git / Docker / Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / Postman / Cypress / Playwright / Jira / Confluence
AI tooling
Cursor / Claude / Gemini CLI / Mistral / Windsurf / Tavily / Grok Bot / Spec / agent orchestration

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Russian
Native or bilingual
Estonian
Limited working

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