Barbara Ondrisek is a Vienna-based software leader, co-founder and CEO with over a decade of hands-on engineering experience and 20+ years in IT, combining deep backend architecture expertise with TDD, refactoring and clean-code advocacy. Currently leading POS Platform Services at REWE International while co-founding the nonprofit Women And Code, she blends product-focused technical leadership with community building and mentorship. Her career spans startups and enterprise roles—from founding chatbot and mobile ventures to steering teams at IBM, Porsche Informatik and paysafecard—demonstrating an ability to move between rapid prototyping and large-scale platform design. A published technical writer and public speaker, she’s known for devouring merge requests and modeling disciplined agile practices as a former Scrum Master. She holds advanced technical degrees (Dr.techn., Dipl.-Ing.) from TU Wien and brings a playful persistence—she’s passionate about cats and breaking glass ceilings—that informs her inclusive approach to engineering culture.
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