stefan.girlich

Helping startups build scalable technical solutions

• Defining data government models, threat modeling frameworks, and implementation roadmaps
• Evaluating and implementing technical solutions in collaboration with product owners and external domain experts
• Introduction of agile design and development processes including automated quality assurance and deployments

Building on-chain reputation systems for decentralized communities

• Technical leadership for Next.js/Express web stack and team of four frontend and backend engineers
• Collaboration with product and UX designers on developing a design system based on Atomic Design methodology
• Agile project management and process design along value chain, spanning requirements specification, implementation, and deployment

Holistic responsibility for technical product design and infrastructure for a digitized key and locksmith services start-up

• Conception and implementation of cloud-native IT architecture including backend services and web frontend applications
• Implementation of computer-vision-based procedures and tooling for individual key shape recognition
• Implementation of machine-learning-based prototypes and 3D training data generation pipelines for automated key blank recognition

Thought leadership and capability building for a new design and engineering cohort in a global business consulting context spanning various industries

• On- and offsite technical consulting and project management in digitization projects for multinational enterprise clients
• Team leadership for a cohort of 30 design and engineering specialists of different technical backgrounds
• Implementation of engineering infrastructure, strategic roadmap and processes, including more than 100 conducted engineering interviews

Technical team leadership and consulting for IoT development projects for automotive, health and home appliance clients

• Team leadership for a cohort of 10 native Android engineers including shaping of processes and best practices for software development
• Hands-on implementation of native Android and full-stack web projects
• Technical consulting and on-site project management for automotive clients

Global technical leadership for a leading publishing software company’s streamlined web frontend applications

• Conception of standardized web user interface components
• Optimization of collaboration processes for a remote product team of ten
• Hands-on implementation of features for publishers in the web platform

Co-leadership for development teams and native Android application development for a leading German travel and flight search

• Agile leadership for eight designers, mobile app engineers and QA testers
• Mentoring and technical reviews for junior engineers
• Development of native Android apps like “Fluege.de” and “Ab in den Urlaub” with more than 1.5m total users

Team management and development for a leading mobile adtech company and premium ad network

• Technical leadership for a team of six iOS and Android engineers
• Developing a component for rendering display ads in native Android apps

Development of web and mobile applications for SME clients

• Development of full-stack web apps, native apps and 3D experiences
• Responsible for internal server administration and backup automation

Media informatics studies (B. Sc.) spanning rich-media application development and IT fundamentals, finishing with a bachelor's thesis and Android-based software prototype for a web API for camera-based head position tracking

Essentially an early type of blog capturing my random teenage thoughts, also containing sections for album and PC game reviews and inside jokes at my local school

This is how it all began. 16 MHz, 4MB RAM, MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1 — endless fun.