What makes a Google Developer Expert?

Google only awards the title to the very top of a technology: developers with deep technical expertise and outstanding contributions to the community. For Angular there are exactly 19 experts across the DACH region: 12 in Germany, 4 in Austria, 3 in Switzerland.

At Angular.Schule, one of the two Google Developer Experts always teaches personally: Ferdinand Malcher or Johannes Hoppe.

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Your trainers

Trainers Johannes Hoppe and Ferdinand Malcher are Google Developer Experts (GDE)
and the authors of the German-language Angular book
„Angular: The Practical Guide – from the basics to advanced development with Signals".
Johannes Hoppe

Johannes Hoppe

is Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular and works as a freelance software architect, consultant and trainer focused on Angular, Node.js and C# / .NET. Outside of teaching, he is a Lead Frontend Developer at a mid-sized company.

Johannes lives & works in Leimen near Heidelberg.

Bluesky: @johanneshoppe.de
LinkedIn: @johanneshoppe
X (Twitter): @JohannesHoppe

Ferdinand Malcher

Ferdinand Malcher

is Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular and works as a freelance software developer, trainer and consultant with a focus on Angular, Node.js and TypeScript. Beyond IT, his passion is media production and event technology.

Ferdinand lives & works in Leipzig.

Bluesky: @fmalcher.de
LinkedIn: @fmalcher

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The Angular book

Since 2017 the two trainers have been sharing their expertise in the German-language reference work on Angular. The completely rewritten new edition was released in May 2026. All workshop participants receive their personal copy, printed or as an e-book.

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