Summary
Meikel Ratz is a product-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems across video streaming, e-commerce, e-mobility, EduTech, retail and e-pharmacy. He has shipped end-to-end products and led teams that scaled two cleantech offerings from zero to thousands of customers and €6M ARR within a year, and now works as a Product Engineer at PostHog. Comfortable across backend and infrastructure (NestJS, TypeScript, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka) and familiar with frontend stacks, he prioritizes pragmatic solutions, observability, and real-world reliability. Known for clear communication and hands-on mentoring, he pairs a research grounding in Media Informatics with a hacker’s drive—summed up by his GitHub motto “all gas. no brakes.”
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Media Informatics, Master of Science - MS Media Informatics at University of Regensburg
German, Polish, English, Italian