
Chris Stöckl
Product Designer
About
I’m a UX enthusiast with a passion for leadership and creating great, not flashy product experiences.
I enjoy weight-lifting, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / MMA, gaming and love to travel.
Side Projects
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Explored the US through a road trip from Nashville to Austin (where I fell in love with the city!), with additional stops including SpaceX's Starbase in South Texas (profile pic)
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Currently working on personal projects and refreshing and extending engineering skills
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Finished animations.dev
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Currently: joyofreact.com (~50% done)
Awards
According to Stackoverflows 2024 Developer Survey "Hetzner is the most-admired cloud platform the second year in a row with a 75% admire score, rising from their 70% score last year." (survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technolog…)
Work Experience
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Joined as employee #3, contributing to the successful launch of Hetzner Cloud in January 2018.
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Designed the Hetzner Cloud Console from scratch and scaled it with team to support hundreds of thousands of users using in-house design system.
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Collaborated with frontend engineers to develop designs using Angular, CSS, and HTML.
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Designed and developed API documentation in Next.js to improve developer experience.
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Built and led the design team, onboarding and mentoring two additional designers.
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Stepped into interim leadership to support team restructuring and transition.
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Realigned team goals with company vision and introduced lean project management practices based on the teams feedback.
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Hired a new lead engineer and ensured a smooth leadership handover for a team of 7 engineers (5 engineers mainly Go, and 2 Ops).
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Established a new team responsible for developing official integrations, developer experience, and API documentation.
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Expanded the team from 1 to 3 engineers.
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Acted as product manager and mentored senior engineer in leadership, handing off leadership after transition period.
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Directed six-figure advertising campaigns (e.g., Stack Overflow, Google Ads, Twitter Ads), driving brand recognition.
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Launched Hetzner Cloud's first industry event presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022.
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Developed profitable customer referral program
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Lead conception and execution of a successful US marketing campaign for the opening of the first US location and first location outside of Europe in Ashburn, VA, USA
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Collaborated with the parent company to modernize marketing strategies and align on a unified vision.
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Built a team of four specialists (Online Advertising, Content Writing, Sponsorship and Events), transitioning leadership to a team member during integration with the parent company.
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Improved the customer control panel’s user experience through iterative updates and user feedback analysis.
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Introduced NPS analytics using Naive Bayes classifiers to guide weekly leadership discussions on product direction.
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Led a six-figure website redesign project in collaboration with a design agency.
- Redesigned the company blog and implemented a custom WordPress theme to improve user engagement.