Christian Meinerding
Founder CEO at HiveMQ
Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Meinerding is a founder and CEO with over a decade of experience building and scaling technology companies, most notably co-founding and leading HiveMQ—an enterprise-grade MQTT broker used by 130+ customers across automotive, smart home, and industrial IoT. A computer science graduate from TU Munich who went from zero to a sustainable operation over 11 years as CEO, he blends hands-on technical insight with strategic business judgment. Lately he’s been deeply exploring practical AI applications and tooling, treating AI as a lever to simplify and improve business workflows rather than a buzzword. Comfortable making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, he enjoys exchanging hard-won lessons with other entrepreneurs and turning operational challenges into product opportunities.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, passed with distinction, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, passed with distinction at Technische Universität München / TU MunichBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Hochschule Landshut
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
mqtt9
plugin-development8
hivemq7
real-time-data6
backend6
android6
maven-plugin6
mq6
mosquitto6
python6
java6
debugging6
authentication6
alfred-workflow5
browser-extension5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hivemq/file-auth-plugin
Oct 2013 - Sep 2015
This plugin reads username & password from a property file and allows access to HiveMQ only for MQTT clients with correct credentials.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
hivemqmqtt
hivemq/file-auth-plugin-utility
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
This neat utility helps to manage the credential file of the File Authentication Plugin. For example it can add, update and remove users using all properties from the fileAuthConfiguration.properties
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
authentication
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