Summary
Alexander Egger is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austria with over a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams across enterprise and consulting environments. He combines deep Java/J2EE and Kotlin expertise with hands-on work in Android and C#, and a strong grounding in agile and Scrum practices. His career spans roles from research and academia to CTO and professor positions, reflecting a rare blend of technical leadership, teaching, and applied R&D. At DISCO he progressed from senior engineer to engineering manager and now staff engineer, demonstrating an ability to scale impact from individual contributor to people and architecture leadership. He has tackled domain-specific challenges like sensor-data algorithms and visualization for oil rigs, and runs a consulting practice that keeps him close to client-facing problem solving. Known for balancing strategic oversight with pragmatic coding, he brings research-level rigor to production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. techn., Computer Science, Dr. techn., Computer Science at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Dipl.-Ing., Telematik, Dipl.-Ing., Telematik at Technische Universität Graz
English, Spanish, French