Karl Gmeiner
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolKarl Gmeiner is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Vienna with two decades of hands-on software development and a PhD in computer science, currently leading DAX Core engineering at Microsoft. He combines deep technical fluency across languages (Kotlin, Java, C#, Python, C/C++, Scala) and frameworks (Flutter, Ktor, Android) with proven leadership in cloud migration, CI/CD and cross-vendor integrations. His background spans enterprise banking architecture, automated legacy-to-Java transformation, and embedded/high-performance Android work, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from compiler construction to production services. Karl has taught and supervised at university level, mentoring engineers and shaping curricula in algorithms, parallel computing and compiler construction. He is comfortable navigating research-grade problems and industrial delivery, often translating academic rigor into pragmatic architecture and operational excellence. Colleagues describe him as a bridge between deep technical research and scalable product engineering, with a knack for turning complex migrations into repeatable practices.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyLinguistics, Linguistics at University of Vienna
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
1,567reputation
97kreached
27answers
23questions
Github Skills (9)
java6
image6
fractal6
figure6
mediastore6
android6
flutter-web6
graphic6
galery6
Github contributions (5)
searles/FractviewAndroid
Dec 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:271 commits, 208 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
searles/Meelan
Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:103 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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