Dec 2024 – Sep 2025 · 9 mos · Vienna, Austria

• Reported directly to CTO; led 35+ engineers across 4 teams (4 Engineering Managers direct reports).
• Owned engineering strategy for fintech platform managing ~€150M in AUM and serving 100K+ users.
• Led legacy modernization initiative: led teams to decompose monolithic C#/.NET system into domain-oriented architecture to enable global expansion and scalability.
• Aligned product and engineering roadmaps to accelerate mobile iteration (React Native) and improve speed-to-market while preserving long-term architectural integrity.

Aug 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Reported to Director of Engineering; Led multiple teams and managers
• Increased team size by 300% during investment period within 6 months to launch a net-new Amazon Music product (startup-style incubation within Amazon).
• Owned end-to-end delivery across React Native clients and AWS-based distributed backend services.
• Drove architecture, system design, and cross-team roadmap alignment for scalable product launch.
• Launched product to market, reaching hundreds of thousands of active users within initial growth phase.

Oct 2021 – Aug 2022 · 10 mos

• I am leading complex designs across multiple organizations and actively drive the implementation of new Music projects. I lead operational excellence efforts such as load testing, stress testing, chaos testing across multiple teams and help individuals and teams to uncover and address critical scaling gaps.
• As part of my role, I help multiple teams find the right technical direction for critical problems, review designs across multiple problem domains and also help improve engineering processes.
• I actively implement new projects on the newest AWS services and tools available, help teams making the right (long term) tech decisions and tradeoffs.

Feb 2019 – Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• As a Senior Software Development Engineer in F3 (Fresh.Food.Fast) I focus on building ultra fast delivery models for our PrimeNow customers. I lead technical projects starting from building a long lasting, scalable and maintainable design all the way to delivering results to our customers and measuring success by tracking business and operational metrics. I work across multiple organizations and various teams.
• I develop my team, share my knowledge with the whole organization and act as a force multiplier.

Aug 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• As a Senior Software Development Engineer in the Payment Acceptance & Experience team, I constantly insist on highest standards and try to work from the customers backwards. Diving deep into all major components that my team needs to understand to build outstanding systems is my daily job. I strongly focus on runtime and space complexity and always try to find the most efficient design and implementation for a problem.
• Furthermore I focus on designing complex systems with respect to latency, reliability, consistency and scalability across teams and businesses in my organization.
• As a Senior Engineer, one of my personal goals is to educate my team members and transfer my knowledge and experience to them.

Nov 2016 – Jul 2017 · 8 mos

• As a backend software engineer I strongly focus on runtime and space complexity. Code readability is an important aspect when developing complex and scalable algorithms.
• Currently I work on core technologies like our job- and company search algorithms. I mainly use Java and PHP as programming languages, but I am always interested in learning new languages and technologies.

Jun 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• As a web project manager I am responsible for thriving mobile related projects to success. I work closely together with other departments like development, UI / UX and marketing.
• I care about details and at the same time focus on the big picture.

Jan 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

• As a product manager I take care of the product strategy, look over marketing plans, create technical concepts as well as milestone plans. Keeping the big picture in mind is one of the most important parts in this role. Questions like: "Does this really fit our goals?", "Does the user need this feature?", "What is the business value behind this?" have to be asked daily to know what to do.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Linz

• As a product manager I am responsible for creating concepts and product plans, communicate with the hardware manufacturer, focus on the product strategy, organize product releases and monitor the success of our products.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Hagenberg

• As a project manager I am responsible for creating concepts, calculate budgets and create offers for our customers. I worked closely together with software engineers as well as designers and marketers to create successful apps for customers like the REWE Group, Synthesa or Ökobox.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 · 5 yrs · Hagenberg

• As a software developer for iOS and Android plattforms I am responsible for creating scalable, memory efficient and clean apps. I focus on details and readability and also create unit tests for all the key features of the apps.

Mar 2011 – Jan 2017 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• As an iOS developer I am developing in both Objective-C and Swift language for several customers. I have a strong passion for beautiful UI elements and great user experience. Whatever I code has to be very fast, memory efficient and readable for other developers.
• I like working in teams and I appreciate challenges that seem to be impossible, which means I like working way outside my comfort zone.
• I have experience in creating animations with Core Animation and UIView, working with Storyboards, AutoLayout and Constraints, creating navigation apps with MapKit, managing data with CoreData and analyzing memory and CPU usage with xCode. I like to develop complex, memory and space efficient algorithms to build the best possible solution for a problem.

Apr 2009 – Jun 2009 · 2 mos · Linz

• As a software engineer I was responsible for developing a website in VBA for a local restaurant and bar called "Josef", located in Linz, Austria.

Jan 2007 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Steyr

• As a part time software engineer I was responsible for creating a tool for customer relationship management. I used PHP, Javascript and MySQL as the main technologies.