Haxtiv
Marco Linder
Experience
10 years
Location
Berlin · Remote
Published
1 essay

Headless & Performance Lead

Marco Linder

10 years engineering React, Next.js, and headless commerce stacks. Spends most of his week measuring real-user Core Web Vitals — not Lighthouse scores.

Marco Linder leads the headless and performance practice at Haxtiv. His background is React, Next.js, edge runtimes, WP-GraphQL, Hydrogen, and the unglamorous monitoring work that separates a fast staging site from a fast production site. He has shipped headless WordPress front-ends for editorial brands, headless Shopify storefronts for DTC clients, and the kind of multi-region edge setups that quietly outperform every alternative when they are built carefully. He writes about the architecture choices behind real-user performance — the ones that show up in conversion data three months after launch.

HeadlessPerformanceArchitectureNext.js

Expertise

What Marco ships in production.

  • Headless WordPress (Next.js, Astro)
  • Headless Shopify (Hydrogen, custom)
  • WP-GraphQL and Faust.js
  • Real-user Core Web Vitals
  • Edge runtimes and ISR
  • React Server Components

Credentials

The track record behind the byline.

  • 10 years senior front-end engineering
  • Lead engineer on 40+ headless WordPress builds
  • Shopify Hydrogen partner experience since 2022

Essays by Marco

Long-form work shipped under this byline.

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