Summary
Jakob Frohnwieser is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and scaling products across enterprise and B2C domains, now serving as Head of Software Engineering at Philips Dictation. He combines hands-on architecture and refactoring skills with people leadership, having led international teams in Java, C#, Angular and Flutter while introducing agile practices, quality gates and in-house tooling. Jakob has driven AI and big data integrations—computer vision and NLP—into on-prem and cloud platforms, and has a track record of turning prototypes into production-ready systems and successful ISO recertifications. Comfortable both founding projects from scratch and optimizing mature products, he regularly works closely with clients and sales to shape roadmaps and demos. Trained as a Dipl.-Ing. / MSc in Media Informatics from TU Wien and based in Vienna, he blends rigorous academic grounding with pragmatic delivery. An interesting detail: he often pairs strategic management duties with hands-on Scrum Mastering and mentoring, bridging executive agendas and day-to-day engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
Ingenieur (Ing.), special training focus automation and robotics, Ingenieur (Ing.), special training focus automation and robotics at HTBLA Eisenstadt