Hi! I am Gabriel Böker.
I am developing digital products and ventures holistically. Design x Tech x Business
As a child, I was already exploring programming and the development of new things and products. I haven't lost my curiosity since then, so I'm happy about everything that inspires me.
In 2014, I founded the online marketing and digital design agency "Buckforty" and already gained my first experience as an entrepreneur with smaller projects. After a break of several years, I also regained my passion for software development there.
In 2017, during my bachelor's degree in design, I had the opportunity to do a wonderful internship at Gruner + Jahr's Greenhouse innovation lab, where I learned a lot about digital trends and how to develop new digital products. Among other things, I worked there on the development of NLP chatbots and the app "Balloon".
During this time, I also started to build my own digital ventures. My project at the time, "Wedash", which I also made part of my Bachelor's thesis (grade 1.5), then became the designer marketplace Studesign. This was followed by other projects and the founding of my small digital consulting agency Deploy Innovation in 2019 where I still tackle digital products.
Beside that I am working as lecturer for digital product development at the Hamburg Media School and was mentor for batch #2 of the nextMedia MediaLift incubator program.
My current tech stack relies mainly on Rails 5+, Ruby 2.6+, Heroku and AWS