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.
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.
No published posts yet. Essays will appear here once Marco publishes to the journal.
Work with us
Want Marco on your next project?
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