Mathias Frey
Chief Engineering Technology Officer at Erste Digital
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolMathias Frey is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 11+ years of experience building banking and digital platforms at scale from Vienna. He currently drives tech strategy and platform architecture for Erste Group, having previously led engineering teams, product extensibility efforts, and frontend platform consolidations across financial and enterprise contexts. Founder of c99, he combines a hands-on, simplicity-first mindset with an operator’s toolkit—espresso machine included—to turn ideas into production value via lean teams and strong DevOps networks. Known for pragmatic architecture, blunt clarity in management, and negotiating realistic requirements, he excels at aligning product, security and delivery to produce reliable customer-facing systems. Alongside corporate roles he brings academic teaching experience, reflecting a talent for translating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Magister der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften Informationswirtschaft, Magister der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften Informationswirtschaft at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
English, Italian, French, German
Github Skills (25)
code-signing10
architecture10
diagram10
prototyping10
notarization10
registers10
graphviz10
integrity9
trust9
attestation9
python8
architectures8
authentication8
cas8
endpoint-security8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mathiasfrey/ecrterm
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
Python ZVT 700 interface (electronic cash registers)
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
pythonelectronicregisterszvtcash
mathiasfrey/haselmaier-configurator
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:18 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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