Alexander Thiele is a seasoned engineering leader and Google Developer Expert in Flutter with over a decade of experience architecting scalable apps and backend systems. As Head of Engineering & Data Science in Munich, he blends hands-on full‑stack development with strategic oversight—having served as CTO of a FinTech handling hundreds of millions in assets and led rewrites and white‑label Flutter apps for millions of users. He founded and built a B2B SaaS platform end-to-end, created Flutter plugins and mobile SDKs, and contributes to open-source projects improving UI reliability and data integrity. Known for cultivating high-performing teams, he emphasizes ownership, psychological safety, and data-informed engineering practices (DORA) to boost delivery velocity and DX. Beyond product delivery, he actively fosters the Flutter community through international talks and local meetups, and even teaches mobile app development at Hochschule München.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Sozialversicherungsfachangestellter, Sozialversicherungsfachangestellter at Barmer GEK
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund
Lecturer Mobile Application Development - Flutter, Lecturer Mobile Application Development - Flutter at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
Structr is an integrated low-code development and runtime environment that uses a graph database.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:24 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Structr project by fixing and enhancing the UI, focusing on improving user input field behavior and adding a data-hiding feature for different edit modes. They also performed testing of group properties and search functionality, ensuring data integrity. The user also updated the example archetype and made fixes to schema definitions, thereby impacting the UI's reliability and functionality.
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 11 months
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Alexander Thiele - Head Of Engineering & Data Science