Experience

Work Experience

Team Lead

Compass Gruppe • 06/2019 - Present
  • Led an 8-member development team, overseeing development, operations, and the technical roadmap of core applications (Wirtschafts-Compass and its API)
  • Coached and mentored team members, fostering professional growth and high performance
  • Planned and managed resources, releases, and development tasks, collaborating closely with Product Management, Sales, and QA
  • Owned software architecture decisions and ensured scalable, maintainable systems
  • Provided technical support in pre-sales and third-level support
  • Led company-wide infrastructure upgrades, including platform and runtime modernization
  • Designed and led the implementation of the Wirtschafts-Compass API and coordinated the retirement of legacy systems
  • Led strategic projects, such as AI-assisted internationalization of Wirtschafts-Compass and rollout of Compliance Multi-Screening

Senior Software Engineer

Compass Gruppe • 03/2018 - Present
  • Designed and implemented a similarity matching framework to match persons
  • Led the migration from a legacy version control system to Git

University Assistant

TU Wien - Distributed Systems Group • 09/2014 - 12/2017
  • Developed a cloud-native platform for Docker-based stream processing applications
  • Contributed to two European research projects focusing on process optimization
  • Lectured on \emph{Advanced Internet Computing} at university level
  • (Co-)authored several scientific publications

Software Engineer and Researcher

SBA Research • 05/2012 - 08/2014
  • Implemented various scientific prototypes, including:
    • An Android OS extension to enhance user location privacy
    • A Kinect-based solution for person identification
    • A data crawler and account replication infrastructure for social networks
  • Co-authored several scientific publications

Teaching Assistant

TU Wien • 03/2010 - 06/2014
During this time period supported lecturers in conducting labs in different courses:

  • Advanced Internet Computing
  • Advanced Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering and Projectmanagement
  • Management of Software Projects
  • Requirements Engineering and Specification

Internship as a Software Engineer

ITSV • 07/2011 - 08/2011
Developed of a ticketing system for change requests

Software Engineer

CDL Laboratory SE-Flex-AS • 08/2009 - 04/2012
  • Contributed to the OpenEngSB open source project
  • Integrated the OpenEngSB platform into industrial partner environments, ensuring compatibility with real-world use cases
  • Defined and implemented acceptance tests for industrial prototypes

Skills

People Management

Leading and mentoring Managing performance Conducting feedback and goal-setting discussions Supporting professional development

Management

Stakeholder Management Project Management Release Management Resource Planning

Engineering

AI Coding Agents Java Spring Boot SQL Maven Hibernate JUnit

Infrastructure

Kubernetes Docker Wildfly AWS Google Cloud

DevOps & Tools

Git GitLab Jenkins Nexus JIRA YouTrack

Award for an outstanding PhD Thesis at TU Wien

City of Vienna - 2019

Education

Dr.tech. (~PhD) in Computer Science - TU Wien

2014 - 2018

Thesis: An Elastic Data Stream Processing Ecosystem for Distributed Environments

Mag. (~MSc) in Information Systems - WU Wien

2012 - 2014

Thesis: Data Transfer Sensitive and Privacy Preserving Scheduling Strategies in Hybrid Cloud Environments

BSc in Business Informatics

2007 - 2011

BSc in Software and Information Engineering

2007 - 2011

Thesis: Automated Identity Theft Attacks on Social Networks