Experience

Work Experience

Team Lead

Compass Gruppe 06/2019 - Present
  • Lead a cross-functional team of 8 engineers, delivering and maintaining the Wirtschafts-Compass platform and its APIs
  • Define and evolved the software architecture ensuring availability, scalability and maintainability while coordinating with development, QA, Product and sales teams
  • Initiated the realization of the Wirtschafts-Compass API and coordinated the sunsetting phase with the sales team and our customers
  • Supported pre-sales and acted as technical escalation point (3rd-level support)
  • Coordinated organization-wide infrastructure upgrades, including migrations from Java 8 to Java 11/Java 17
  • Drove the internationalization of the Wirtschafts-Compass enabling entry into new markets
  • Introduced the Compliance Multi-Screening to reduce the time needed for compliance checks
  • Extend and modernize core modules such as the land register, monitoring or compliance services

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 the VISP Ecosystem, a cloud-based runtime environment for stream processing applications
  • Co-authored multiple scientific publications
  • Designed and implemented practical exercises for the Advanced Internet Computing master’s course
  • Contributed to two European research projects (FP7 SIMPLI-CITY and H2020 CREMA), focusing on cloud-based service orchestration and process optimization.
  • Led the development of a cloud-native elastic execution environment for containerized services, enabling scalable and efficient resource utilization.

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

Leadership & Management

Team leadership coaching & mentoring project/release management resource planning Agile Methods Scrum

Software Engineering

Java Spring Boot Maven Hibernate JUnit

Cloud & Infrastructure

Docker Wildfly AWS (EC2) Google Compute Engine

Databases

Oracle MySQL SQL

Messaging

RabbitMQ ActiveMQ (Artemis) Kafka

DevOps & Tools

Git GitLab Jenkins Travis CI 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