Summary
Andreas Hauenstein is a seasoned platform engineering leader and full‑stack software engineer with over a decade of experience building end‑to‑end prototypes and production systems across embedded devices, iOS, ML, Python backends, and JavaScript frontends. As Director of Platform Engineering at Protxx and founder of AHAUX LLC, he combines hands‑on implementation skills with product intuition, having shipped consumer apps like Kifu Cam and platforms such as protxx.com. His background spans research and applied roles—from Chief Scientist at Lumoback to senior engineering and consulting positions—grounded in advanced CS training including a Ph.D. Andreas is comfortable across SQL and NoSQL datastores and cloud architectures, and he repeatedly demonstrates the ability to take ideas from concept to deployed MVP. A detail that surprises: he blends deep academic credentials with practical embedded and mobile product delivery, bridging low‑level systems and high‑level user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Hamburg
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MSCS Computer Science Mathematics, MSCS Computer Science Mathematics at University of Technology, Munich