Katrin Freihofner
Co-Founder at Straion
Linz-Wels-Steyr Area Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolKatrin Freihofner is a versatile product and design leader with nine years of experience building observability and UX-driven software, now co-founding Straion from Austria. She blends hands-on engineering, product management, and design systems expertise—having led teams at Elastic and Dynatrace to deliver AI-enhanced troubleshooting workflows and scalable design systems. Katrin excels at cross-functional collaboration with ML engineers and data scientists, recruiting and coaching distributed design teams while validating decisions with qualitative and quantitative research. A fast learner and curious problem-solver, she consistently turns complex monitoring challenges into clear user journeys and shipped features. Her background in interactive media and long tenure in SaaS observability give her a rare mix of technical depth and human-centered product judgement.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Media, Interactive Media at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, HagenbergStockholms universitetMarketing, Passed with Merit, Marketing, Passed with Merit at Commercial College, RohrbachKTH Royal Institute of Technology
German, English, French, Swedish
Github Skills (31)
observability10
kibana10
elastic-apm10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
dynatrace9
css-in-js9
performance-monitoring9
issue-tracking9
react9
elastic-ui8
eui8
histogram8
sketch6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Dynatrace/css-groundhog
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
CSS components for Dynatrace
Contributions:147 PRs, 168 pushes, 80 branches in 1 year 8 months
cssdynatrace
elastic/uptime
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
This project includes resources and general issue tracking for the Elastic Uptime solution
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 months
elasticissue-trackingtrackinguptimeelasticsearch
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