Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Hands-on engineering leader with extensive knowledge from low-level programming to building user-friendly interfaces and overall application and backend architecture design. Strategic planning, developing, and leading teams for multiple award-winning products for iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android, with hardware components and cloud backends.
- Maintain a technical blog focused on iOS and macOS development - MarkChart: preview and edit Mermaid diagrams on macOS, iPadOS and iOS - DotChart: preview and edit DOT and Graphviz diagrams on macOS - Dependencies: macOS app for exploring app architecture through interactive graphs. Featured by Apple on the Mac App Store ('Apps and Games We Love Right Now'). - Clatters: iOS app for monitoring brand or product mentions across social networks. Featured multiple times by Apple in 'Apps We Love Right Now'. - Cornichon: macOS profiling tool for dynamically tracking application performance - MacBornes: macOS game; finalist in OMG Contest 2005 - iPatch: patch maker utility for macOS - iLearnEnglish: English learning tool for macOS
- Lead cross-functional teams across Firmware, iOS, Android, Cloud, and QA - Drive the roadmap, product portfolio strategy, and long-term planning - Contributed to the successful market launch of multiple Eve products, including: Eve Thermo, Eve Thermo Control, Eve app for Android, Eve Dimmer Switch, Eve Light Switch, Eve Shutter Switch, Eve Energy Outdoor, Eve Energy Outlet, Eve Energy Switzerland, Eve MotionBlinds, Eve Cam, Eve Outdoor Cam, Eve Weather, … - Oversee product quality, regulatory certifications, and compliance - Lead cybersecurity initiatives, including vulnerability management - Manage company-wide IT infrastructure and services - Act as liaison to suppliers and external technology partners - Matter and Apple HomeKit expert
- Helped create the company and build the company culture - Hired a team of talented and thoughtful people to create the Engineering team - Leading the Engineering teams responsible for the Eimy ecosystem: iOS team, Android team, backend team, QA, devops - Managing external employees as well as vendors - Mentoring the iOS, Android and backend developers - Strategic planning and features definition of products - Responsible for the completion and acceptance of product releases - Tech stack decisions: SwiftUI for native iOS apps and JetPack Compose for native Android apps. NestJS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Terraform and Google Cloud Platform for Eimy’s cloud infrastructure - Designing and developing Eimy’s cloud infrastructure while ensuring a solid architecture with devotion for security and information protection: Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Docker, GitLab - Architecture and development of iOS apps in Swift and SwiftUI - Handling Open Source relations, legal and security topics
- Technical Lead of Stream Deck, a groundbreaking USB controller for content creators - Strategic planning and roadmap of the Stream Deck ecosystem (macOS app, Windows app, iOS app, Android app, hardware + firmware, cloud servers with backend and frontend components) - Features definition and prioritization - Leading a team to develop the different components of the Stream Deck ecosystem - Designing and implementing the Stream Deck SDK for third party integrations - Handling the Developer Relations with third party developers and the online developer documentation - Designing the architecture and developing the cross-platform desktop apps (macOS and Windows) with Qt, C++ and Objective-C - Leading a team to develop the Stream Deck Mobile app for iOS in Swift with subscriptions - Planning the development of the Stream Deck Mobile app for Android in Kotlin with subscriptions - Internal communication with the QA team, Support team and various hardware vendors - Releasing the app updates to end users - Hiring - Mentoring developers - Management of external employees as well as agencies - Handling relations with the Open Source communities - Devops (Jira, Bamboo, Confluence, Bitbucket, GitHub, CI/CD, …) - Technical due diligence during IPO and acquisitions