Clemens Helm
Founder at DevCraft Academy
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolClemens Helm is a founder and seasoned full-stack software engineer with 14+ years of experience building scalable web applications, developer teams, and product-led startups from Vienna. He currently runs Pinchy, a self-hosted, open-source AI agent platform focused on enterprise-grade audit trails and granular permissions, and co-runs Mit Freuden, a craftsmanship-focused Rails collective. His background spans hands-on roles as CTO, VP of Engineering, and founder of multiple ventures (including ChillBill), with deep practical expertise in Rails, Node.js, React, DevOps, and product-to-engineering collaboration. Clemens also runs DevCraft Academy, mentoring developers with tailored assessments and learning paths informed by having worked with 300+ developers across dozens of projects. He combines pragmatic architecture and CI/CD discipline with product empathy, and often focuses on long-lived maintainability rather than short-term hacks. Based in Vienna, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with an academic grounding in media and computer science from TU Wien and Porto.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyMsc., Computer engineering, Msc., Computer engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German
Stackoverflow
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ruby
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ruby-on-rails
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filter
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file-handling
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javascript
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Github Skills (122)
realtime10
javascript10
detector10
file-handling10
nodejs10
mongodb10
npm10
parsing10
github-services10
react10
codeship9
ecmascript9
reactive-programming9
inferno9
zero-configuration9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
codeship/screencast-storyboards
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:208 commits in 6 months
codeshipstoryboardstechnologiesset-up
clemenshelm/adventofcode-2017
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:61 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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