Matthias Wolf
Co-Founder & CTO at Pairio
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthias Wolf is a seasoned software engineer and startup CTO with 16 years of experience building production-grade AI and backend systems from Europe to San Francisco. As Co-Founder & CTO of Pairio he is shaping a voice AI maintenance assistant for manufacturing, drawing on prior roles building AI agents at a YC startup and computer vision backends for mobile applications. His open-source contributions to projects like the Spack package manager and the HighFive C++ HDF5 interface show deep expertise in build/release engineering, packaging, and performance-minded C++ tooling. He pairs a strong academic foundation in Robotics, Cognition & Intelligence from TUM with hands-on product delivery and teaching experience, which helps him translate complex research into reliable, testable systems. Notably, he has improved build processes and added integration tests across repositories—evidence of a developer who focuses on long-term maintainability as much as feature velocity.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange, General Engineering, Exchange, General Engineering at Beihang UniversityMaster of Science, Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence, Master of Science, Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence at Technical University of MunichManage and More Scholarship, Manage and More Scholarship at Manage and More by UnternehmerTUM
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Github Skills (17)
hdf10
c-language10
python10
package-management10
testing10
build-system10
cmake10
package-manager-tool10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
build-tools9
read-the-docs6
mocking6
pyspark6
scala6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
BlueBrain/HighFive
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
HighFive - Header-only C++ HDF5 interface
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 356 reviews, 18 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on enhancing the HighFive C++ HDF5 interface. Their contributions include improving the build process by explicitly exporting the HighFive target for proper linking, adding more inclusive integration tests, and refactoring file-related property list configurations. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to signed char types and inlined several functions to optimize performance.
cppheaderc-plus-plushdf5header-only
spack/spack
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Build/Release Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 46 commits, 72 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the Spack package manager repository by adding and updating package definitions. They introduced new packages, such as py-lazy-property, py-progress, and py-pyarrow, as well as maintained existing ones like Neovim, Parquet, and Flatbuffers by adding new versions and dependencies. Additionally, the user made improvements related to build processes and testing frameworks. They also added scripts for managing permissions.
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