Felix Krause
Co-Founder & CTO at ContextSDK
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolFelix Krause is a Vienna-based Co-Founder and CTO with 13 years of experience building developer tools, mobile apps, and privacy-first SDKs. He created fastlane—an open-source automation suite later adopted by Twitter and Google—that has saved millions of developer hours and scaled to hundreds of thousands of apps. Currently leading ContextSDK, he blends product-focused engineering with privacy-conscious context signals to boost engagement and revenue. His background spans founding startups, leading fastlane through two acquisitions, and contributing security fixes to high-profile projects like CocoaPods. Felix combines deep iOS expertise (code signing, CI/CD, automation) with backend and DevOps craftsmanship, and quietly writes production tooling and docs that large teams depend on. He’s known for turning painful developer workflows into polished, widely used solutions while keeping security and user privacy front and center.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of LancashireBusiness Computer Science, Business Computer Science at HTL Wiener Neustadt
Stackoverflow
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90answers
13questions
xcode
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cocoapods
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ios
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Github Skills (67)
testing10
telegraf10
http10
bash10
testflight10
ruby10
security10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
build-automation10
ui-automation10
coding-style10
javascript10
danger10
google-sheets-api10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
KrauseFx/krausefx.com
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
My personal blog
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:657 commits, 41 PRs, 539 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Felix's primary contribution involved migrating existing blog attachments, indicating a focus on content management and website maintenance. They modified HTML attachment files, suggesting an interaction with the front-end structure. Furthermore, they made changes to the header, footer, and index pages, along with the addition of a 404 page. Their contributions encompass design and front-end development.
jekyllmy-personal-blog
xcpretty/xcode-install
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
🔽 Install and update your Xcodes
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 103 commits, 58 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the `xcpretty/xcode-install` repository by implementing and maintaining features related to Xcode version management. This included bumping versions, fixing pre-release crashes, adding support for new Xcode releases, and refactoring the seedlist functionality for better integration with CI/CD systems. Their work involved modifying core Ruby files, specifically `lib/xcode/install.rb` and `lib/xcode/install/version.rb`. They also introduced a system to track the progress of Xcode downloads.
macosupdatexcode
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