Matthias Kurz
CEO And Co-Founder at HSBC
Vienna, Austria
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Matthias Kurz is a seasoned engineering leader and two-time founder with 15 years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and fintech products from Vienna. As CEO and co-founder of Brevius and previously Automata, he combines technical depth with product and stakeholder leadership, translating quantitative finance expertise into automated investment and valuation platforms. A long-time open-source maintainer and contributor to high-profile projects like the Play Framework and sbt, he focuses on compiler/parser work, build tooling, Docker packaging, and reliability improvements that keep developer ecosystems humming. His background in equity derivatives valuations at major banks gives him strong domain expertise in pricing, risk controls and automation using Python and VBA. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often fixes subtle parsing, build or deployment edge cases that improve long-running projects for thousands of users.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Banking and Finance, Master's degree, Banking and Finance at UAS bfi Vienna
English, German
Github Skills (80)
dependency-management10
parserator10
parser10
sendmail10
testing10
databases10
http10
c1110
smtps10
c1710
e-mail10
javas10
mailer10
build-automation10
javascript10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/playframework
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 997 reviews, 1671 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Matthias made several contributions to the Play Framework, focusing on the backend logic of the framework. They implemented temporary file access for uploaded files, added the ability to set the HTTPS port. They were involved in database management, including the upgrade of the database dependencies. The user also worked on various bug fixes, and performance optimizations.
restfulplay-frameworkframeworkplayframeworkjvm
sbt/sbt-eclipse
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
Plugin for sbt to create Eclipse project definitions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 53 commits, 53 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to maintaining and updating the sbt-eclipse plugin, focusing on keeping dependencies current and improving the build process. They updated Scala and sbt versions, ensuring compatibility and leveraging newer features. The user also refactored the build configuration and addressed a Coursier-related bug, streamlining the plugin's functionality. They removed Bintray integration and replaced it with a new CI release plugin.
sbt-pluginscaladefinitionssbteclipse
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