Dominik Obermaier
Chief Executive Officer at OASIS
Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolDominik Obermaier is a seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience who co-founded HiveMQ and now serves as its CEO after more than a decade as CTO. Based in Landshut, Bavaria, he blends deep hands-on engineering—evidenced by contributions to open-source projects like the Java-based Tomighty desktop app—with strategic product and company leadership in the MQTT messaging space. An active member of both OASIS MQTT and MQTT-SN technical committees, he shapes protocol standards while guiding commercial implementations at scale. He has taught at Hochschule Landshut and brings a pragmatic academic perspective grounded in a BSc in Informatik. Notably, his background spans low-level bug fixes and prototype plugin systems to executive decision-making, reflecting a rare comfort switching between code and corporate strategy.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Informatik, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Informatik at Hochschule Landshut
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
plugin-development10
mqtt10
java10
javas10
junit10
jtest10
websocket9
flyway9
front-end-development9
protocols9
cdi9
macos8
guice8
paho6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomighty/tomighty
Apr 2011 - May 2012
Old Tomighty repo. For the new repos, please refer to: tomighty-osx and tomighty-windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to bug fixes and added new features to the Java-based Tomighty application. They addressed a Mac OSX-specific bug related to the application not starting. They also added unit tests for resources and implemented a prototype for a plugin loader, including improvements to child injector functionality and testing the plugin loading process. The user's work demonstrates a focus on both application functionality and the integration of a plugin system.
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hivemq/hivemq-hello-world-plugin
Aug 2013 - Oct 2016
A Hello World Plugin for getting started with plugin development for the HiveMQ MQTT broker
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
brokerworld-pluginmqttmqtt-brokerplugin-development
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