Björn Kaiser
Senior Director Of Engineering at trophi.ai
Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolBjörn Kaiser is a senior engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience building scalable systems and leading teams across Europe. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at trophi.ai and founder of hotlaps.io, he blends hands-on backend expertise with strategic product delivery. His background includes senior engineering roles at MessageBird and Facebook, where he moved from developer support into core software engineering. An active open-source contributor, Björn improved Parse Server’s cloud code validation and test coverage, demonstrating attention to API robustness and developer experience. Based in Lazio, Italy, he pairs a pragmatic, outside-the-box problem-solving style with a bias for keeping solutions lean and maintainable. He’s equally comfortable shipping production systems at scale and rolling up his sleeves to tighten APIs or add critical tests.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Hauptschulabschluss, Hauptschulabschluss at Heinrich-Mann-SchuleKaufmann für Marketingkommunikation, Kaufmann für Marketingkommunikation at Stauffenbergschule
German, English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
back-end-development10
validations10
validation10
facebook10
parse-server10
nodejs10
testing9
ios9
objective-c9
facebook-graph-api9
iphone9
php9
rest-api9
mongodb8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
parse-community/parse-server
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Parse Server for Node.js / Express
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Björn focused on enhancing the cloud code functionality of the Parse Server. They added validation features to cloud code functions, allowing for parameter validation. Additionally, the user contributed to the testing suite, adding tests for parameter validation within cloud functions and ensuring the correct handling of calls to non-existing cloud functions. These changes indicate improvements to the API and overall robustness of the platform.
file-storageexpressnotificationsgraphql-servermongodb
codegefluester/CGFDateModifier
Sep 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 3 pushes, 5 tags in 1 year 10 months
macosswiftiosmodify
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