Summary
Manuel Seelaus is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 25 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams across AI, security, and infrastructure domains. Currently Chief Technology Officer at Tern AI in the Austin area, he previously scaled product and platform engineering as Technical Director at PANGIAM and VP of Engineering at Trueface. His background in systems reliability and DevOps—shaped at Canonical and YP Holdings—grounds a pragmatic approach to resilience, observability, and secure deployments. Manuel blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, often stepping into deep technical problems himself rather than delegating them. Trained in information technology at ZHAW, he brings a European systems mindset to U.S. startups, favoring measurable operational improvements and rapid iteration.
25 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at ZHAW School of Engineering
python, bash