I’m Tony Grätscher, a Full-Stack Web Developer. I build high-performance websites and web apps with a clear focus on architecture and user experience. On this site you’ll find my brief bio, skills, selected projects and credentials.
My focus is the backend: I build services and tools that are meant to run reliably for years – lean, readable and with as few dependencies as possible. The bars on the right are my honest self-assessment; the info icons tell you more.
Go is my main language today: for backends, APIs, command-line tools and applications shipped as a single binary – like LCM or the DNS-Editor. JavaScript has been with me since 2011, first in the browser, and from 2017 on the server with Node.js; new user interfaces I write in TypeScript. Java comes from my Intrexx years, when I built libraries and extensions for the platform and for Spring Boot.
Short functions, clear names – code is read more often than written.
Fast responses and lean pages are part of the design from day one.
The simplest solution that holds up – not the newest one that impresses.
From my first website through my apprenticeship to my own products: the most important milestones. Switch between the view by area and a purely chronological order.
Started as a freelance business in videography and web design. Today Techeve builds client projects and its own software: LCM for managing entire Linux fleets, the DNS-Editor and the Go library ORM++ – from the Go backend through the web interface to running it on our own infrastructure.
Building and maintaining client websites with WordPress as well as web applications based on the PHP framework Symfony. My start in professional web development.
Taken on after my apprenticeship as an IT specialist for application development. Designing and developing web applications on the Intrexx platform for clients from many industries, complemented by my own Java libraries and extensions.
Official certification by the vendor, confirming my project experience on the platform.
Promotion to product responsibility: evolving the products as the link between clients and development.
Dual apprenticeship: hands-on work at WUNDS Datensysteme with a focus on web applications, theory at the Gutjahr vocational schools in Halle (Saale). Completed with the chamber of commerce (IHK) exam.
Networking for Home and Small Businesses: networking fundamentals, IP addressing and setting up small networks.
GDPR training shortly before it came into force – a fixed part of every website and application I have built since.
A-level programme focused on computer science, left without graduating – after that I went straight into practice.
Intermediate school-leaving certificate at the Freie Fröbel-Schule in Keilhau.
Here I showcase selected work and personal experiments – from my own products and client projects to tech demos. The focus is clear architecture, great developer experience and tangible performance.
Agentless management for entire Linux fleets: a single Go binary drives any number of servers over SSH – packages, updates, configuration and monitoring from one interface, with nothing to install on the target systems. The Community Edition is licensed under AGPL-3.0.
Centralized management of DNS records across multiple domain providers: all zones and records in one interface, no matter where the domains are registered. Written in Go, available as Community, Cloud and Enterprise Edition, complemented by a certificate agent for automatic certificates and a DynDNS client.
A portal explaining Linux on the desktop: profiles of the major distributions, a step-by-step Linux finder, alternatives to Windows software and databases covering thousands of games and printers. Built statically with Astro, without a client framework.
A read-aloud app for your own texts: Markdown, HTML, Word or plain text is stripped of navigation and ad clutter, split into sections and spoken via Google Cloud text-to-speech. Generated audio stays in the browser cache, which saves cost on repeat listening. A Chrome extension reads selected text on any page.
The digital notice board for small municipalities: events, drills, official announcements and dates where younger residents actually see them. A static reading site built with Astro, kept separate from the editorial app in Go and Lit that republishes it on every change – so reading stays available even when the editing side is down.
Certificates to download. Personal documents are available on request by email.
IHK exam certificate as IT specialist for application development
Intrexx Authorized Developer
Download PDFSeminar on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, 05/2017
Download PDFNetworking for Home and Small Businesses
Download PDFSecondary school certificate from the Freie Fröbel-Schule Keilhau
Assessment report including the HAWIK-III intelligence test