Dominik Hackl is a founder and engineering-driven product leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling SaaS businesses from Austria. He co-founded multiple startups including Prescreen (acquired by XING/NEW WORK SE) and currently leads fynk, where he combines backend engineering with product and go-to-market strategy to make contract workflows a competitive advantage. A lifelong technologist who contributed to open source projects as a teen and studied network engineering before earning business degrees in strategy and innovation, he blends deep technical fluency with formal management training. He has hands-on experience growing teams, operating web platforms at scale, and pivoting product models into successful SaaS offerings. Less obvious: he has repeatedly turned early technical prototypes into market-leading products, demonstrating a knack for both code-level problem solving and strategic exits.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Strategy, Innovation, and Management Control, Master’s Degree, Strategy, Innovation, and Management Control at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Engineer's Degree, Network Engineering, Software Development, Graduated with honors, Engineer's Degree, Network Engineering, Software Development, Graduated with honors at HTL Spengergasse
A Tetris(TM)-clone for the console written in C, using the ncurses-library.
Contributions:3 releases, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years
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