Head of Engineering @krone.at • Open Source Contributor
I work as Head of Engineering at krone.at, focusing on engineering management, technical strategy, and system reliability. My background spans 25+ years across various technology domains.
I contribute to open source projects including Chromium, LLVM, PDFium, and Fastlane. Areas of interest include system performance, developer tooling, and infrastructure automation.
Leading technical vision and engineering teams at scale. Experience building and maintaining systems that serve millions of users.
25+ years across the full technology stack - from low-level system programming to distributed cloud architectures.
Active contributor to major projects. Building tools that make developers more productive.
Founded and leading Captcha.eu - a GDPR-compliant bot protection service hosted in Austria. Serves clients including ÖBB, Bauer Media Group, and E.ON with privacy-first, accessible web security solutions.
Major contributor to Google's open-source web browser project. Led modernization efforts including StringPiece to std::string_view migration and GoogleTest naming convention improvements across multiple modules.
Enhanced clang-tidy modernization tools by implementing pattern detection for substr() operations that can be replaced with C++20 starts_with() method, improving code readability and performance.
Key contributor to iOS and Android deployment automation tool. Enhanced Spaceship module for App Store Connect integration, improved terminal responsiveness, and fixed critical build system compatibility issues.
Contributed to PHP's dependency manager. Implemented GitLab API v4 pagination support for repository discovery and improved tag/branch collection functionality for better package resolution.
Browser-based terminal multiplexer for frictionless remote access to macOS terminals. Designed for "vibe coding" - maintaining developer flow from anywhere. Core contributor to this innovative tool for monitoring AI agents and remote development.
I'm always interested in discussing new projects, opportunities, or just chatting about technology.