Summary
Jonas Hartmann is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling game and e-commerce platforms, currently serving as Vice President Engineering at Kolibri Games in Berlin. He blends hands-on architecture and Unity development roots with strategic leadership, driving company-wide technology initiatives, DevOps adoption, and team empowerment as an authorized technology officer. His background spans bootstrapping high-availability publishing platforms, large-scale account migrations, and real-time retention systems, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer efficiency. Known for mentoring and hiring strong teams, he pairs clear-headed, collaborative leadership with a track record of reducing operational friction through automation and infrastructure-as-code. Unusually for an executive, he still engages directly in technical design and was instrumental in scaling solutions across languages and stacks from Java/Spring and PHP to Python and cloud tooling.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program, Computer Science, Exchange Program, Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, German, English