Summary
Arno Dirlam is an Elixir mentor and consultant based in Berlin with nine years of engineering experience helping teams build scalable, maintainable SaaS products. He combines functional BEAM expertise with full-stack experience in React, Node, and TypeScript, and a strong backend pedigree from roles ranging from senior Rails developer to senior backend engineer. As a former CTO and co-founder, he brings hands-on product and people experience—teaching teams how to adopt Elixir’s concurrency model, declarative patterns, and recursive data structures without sacrificing long-term maintainability. He has applied this expertise in production-scale contexts (inspired by cases like Discord’s Elixir usage) and routinely coaches engineers to become productive quickly in the Elixir ecosystem. With academic roots in business informatics and research in innovation and open-source collaboration, he blends technical depth with a systems-level view of how teams and products evolve.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
cand.merc.(it), Innovation, Organization, Social Entrepreneurship, Information Management, cand.merc.(it), Innovation, Organization, Social Entrepreneurship, Information Management at Copenhagen Business School
M.Sc. Business Informatics, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior, Process Management, M.Sc. Business Informatics, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior, Process Management at University of Mannheim
Bachelor of Science, Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science, Business Informatics at Universität Mannheim
Exchange Student, Management Information Systems, Exchange Student, Management Information Systems at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, German