Andreas Kirchner
Functional Manager at Credit Suisse
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAndreas Kirchner is a senior IT leader and functional manager based in Vienna with 15 years of experience designing and operating secure digital banking platforms. He combines a rare mix of philosophy and computer science—holding degrees in both fields—with deep hands-on expertise in mobile banking, authentication services, and DevSecOps. At Credit Suisse he led secure coding initiatives, open banking and microservice adoption, and continues to drive security architecture and risk reduction across online banking. As a founder and former CTO of a fintech startup, he pairs product instincts with technical leadership to ship customer-facing apps and embedded PSD2 capabilities. Known for fostering hacker culture, internal hackathons, and cross-border team building, he also mentors developers and shapes organizational practices that reduce technical and process debt. Practical, interdisciplinary, and security-first, he bridges research, engineering and product to make complex banking systems resilient and maintainable.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy, Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy at University of ViennaExchange Semester, Computer Science, Exchange Semester, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneM.Sc., Medical Computer Science, M.Sc., Medical Computer Science at Technical University Vienna
English, French, German, Hindi
Github Skills (40)
archived10
php9
azure8
android-application8
kotlin8
nextcloud8
collaboration8
owncloud8
layout8
file-sharing8
android-app8
self-hosting8
javascript8
diaspora7
community-management7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akalypse/bigbank
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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