{Professional experience.}
Projects
Feb. 2020-
Aug. 2022
Mobile Fueling
LogPay Financial Services, Frankfurt/remote (contracted by Senacor)
Senior full stack developer helping shape the future of mobile payments in the car industry. Working as part of a DevOps team to build a SpringBoot based micro service backend API and supporting React demo clients on AWS.
Sep. 2015 – Nov. 2019
Financial Product Recommendation Engine
BAWAG P.S.K., Vienna/remote (contracted by Senacor)
Senior JEE/micro service engineer working with an international team to build the next gen product recommendation engine for a major Austrian bank.
since March 2013
MeinePraxis
Haberl IT Consulting, Graz
Design & DevOp of MeinePraxis, a SaaS client management and billing platform used by speech therapists throughout Austria.
Jan. 2010 – May 2010
Outdoor Maps
Freelancing for Toursprung, Vienna
Development of map portals based on PHP Symphony & Maps APIs.
Aug. 2009 – Aug. 2015
Senior Backend Freelancer
Austrian Environmental Agency & Austrian Court of Audit, Vienna (contracted by CSC/DXC)
Senior Spring backend dev supporting Austrian government agencies in their eGov digitalisation efforts.
Sep. 2004 – July 2009
Application Developer/Spring Trainer
CSC Austria (now DXC Technology), Vienna
Spring Dev/Consultant working for major Austrian companies including the Austrian National Insurance, Austrian Federal Railways and University of Vienna.
July 2002 – June 2003
Postgraduate Research Assistant
UniSA, Adelaide, Australia
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Research work in the area of workflow engines and business intelligence.
Feb. 2001 – May 2002
IT Support
St. Anna Kinderspital, Vienna
Support technician at the IT department of the St. Anna children’s hospital. Redesign of the hospital’s homepage.
Oct. 1998 – June 2000
Teaching Assistant
Technical University of Vienna
Teaching Assistant at the Automation Systems Group.
Gap Years
July 2023 – Aug. 2024
Travel across Africa and Europe
Overlanding from Cape of Good Hope to North Cape from Southern and Eastern Africa, via the Arabian Peninsula to Eastern and Northern Europe.
July 2017 – Aug. 2018
Travel across Asia and Australia
Overland travel with family and kids from Austria to Australia via Siberia, Mongolia, South-Korea, China, South-East-Asia and Indonesia.
Aug. 2007 – Aug. 2008
Travel across North- and South America
Atlantic crossing in a cargo ship and overland travel from Canada to Chile through North-, Central and South America.
July 2003 – May 2004
Travel from Australia to Europe
Overland travel from Australia to Austria via Indonesia, South-East-Asia, China, Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe.
See Abenteuer Überland for more information (in German)
Education
Mar. 1995 – Jan. 2001
Master of Science in Computer Science
Technical University of Vienna
Focus on Distributed Systems, Real-Time-Systems and Pattern Recognition. Master Thesis about active information dissemination systems on the Internet as part of an EU research project. Average grade: 1.16 (out of 5 with 1 being the best)
Oct. 1997 – Dec. 1997
Erasmus Scholarship
University of Surrey, Guildford, England
Internship in the area of face recognition.