Mathias Born is a founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building payment and fintech products, currently leading payactive—a modular Open Banking payments platform that automates recurring billing and can cut costs by up to 20% while embedding a social-ecological impact per transaction. He combines hands-on engineering and payments domain expertise from roles at ING (technical product owner, software architect) with startup leadership across Signalimpuls Ventures and consulting work focused on digital innovation. Comfortable spanning backend development (including contributions to Apache Wicket integrations) to product strategy, he emphasizes liquidity optimization and operational simplicity for business customers. Based in the Greater Dresden Area, he brings a pragmatic mix of technical depth and mission-driven entrepreneurship that seeks measurable cost savings and positive societal impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced technical college entrance qualification information technology, Advanced technical college entrance qualification information technology at Specialized secondary school BSU Taunusstein
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business informatics at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
semester abroad Business informatics, semester abroad Business informatics at FH Technikum Wien
Wicketstuff-core projects are bundled user contributions for use with Apache Wicket (https://wicket.apache.org/). They are released in step with Wicket releases to make them easy to use.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:19 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Mathias primarily refactored and implemented features related to a Geocoder component, likely for use within a Google Maps integration. This involved modifying existing code to enhance functionality, specifically focusing on address-related features such as centering and zooming. The changes include modifications to Java classes, indicating a focus on server-side logic and potentially API interactions.
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Mathias Born - Founder & CEO at Signalimpuls Group