Experience
Tech Lead
Bitmovin GmbH, Vienna, Austria | February 2019 - March 2024
Initiated, designed and built a stable, extensible and
high-performance Web player
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Based on internal metrics and my own market analysis, I realized the need
for a complementary approach to Player Technology. I launched the project, led
design and development, and worked in tandem with Product on
getting it to market.
- Redesigned the licencing backend for scale
Technologies
- Software: Scylladb | RabbitMQ | MySQL
- Programming Languages: Typescript | Go
- Devops: GCP | Docker | K8s
Engineering Manager
Bitmovin GmbH, Vienna, Austria | February 2019 - March 2024
Initiated, designed and built a stable, extensible and
high-performance Web player
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Led a team of 15 engineers in cooperation with upper management,
as well as the Product and Customer Success departments to
maintain, develop and deliver a Web Player serving ~2B views per
month.
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Implemented agile methodologies, accelerating product development
cycles by 50% and improving team collaboration.
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Responsible for 90% of the best engineering hires in the team.
- Responsible for technical roadmap input.
Technologies
- Software: Jira | MySQL
- Programming Languages: Typescript
- Devops: GCP | Docker | K8s
Technical Advisor | Architect
Eldora.do, Switzerland | June 2022 - April 2023
Web3 Metaverse
- Defined technical strategy with the executive team.
- Educated contributors on agile methodologies
- Overall system architecture and technology selection
Technologies
- Software: Unity
- Devops: AWS | Gihub Actions
- Programming languages: Typescript | C#
Lead Engineer
Yelster GmbH, Vienna, Austria | Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Maintained and enhanced one of the largest Wordpress
installations worldwide (~7k websites)
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Led a diverse and cross-technology team of 7 engineers of mixed
experience
- Supported a team of ~100 webmasters
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Maintained and extended a number of helper services in a SOA
layout
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Dropped web server ram usage by 99.995% using a custom reverse
proxy
Technologies
- Software: Wordpress | Laravel | Django
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Programming Languages: Python | PHP | Javascript | Rust |
Purescript
- Devops: Debian | Nginx
Freelance Software Consultant
2012 -
Developed a number of software projects, mostly web facing, some
mobile
Customer-oriented approach
Using innovation where appropriate to save costs
Technologies
- Software: PHP | Wordpress | Laravel | Postgresql | MySQL
- Programming languages: PHP | Javascript | Python | Java
- Devops: Debian | Nixos