Summary
Gerhard Görlich is a Vienna-based Lead Developer and Senior Software Architect with over 20 years of hands-on experience in software delivery, architecture and legacy modernization across startups and enterprise Java/J2EE projects. He leads agile teams end-to-end, combining pragmatic development with technology and architecture decisions to rapidly produce prototypes, presales demos and production-ready systems. In recent years he has specialized in AI-augmented developer productivity, acting as an “AI Scout” who evaluates and integrates tools like Claude, Copilot and Gemini into real workflows. His background spans founding-stage product work and large-scale enterprise rollouts, giving him both product sensibility and operational discipline. Gerhard’s strength is turning quick proofs-of-concept into maintainable solutions while keeping deployments and operations firmly in scope.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Wirtschaftsinformatik at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
German, English