Michael Meidlinger is a cloud performance leader and systems engineer with 12 years of experience combining hands-on DevOps, cloud architecture, and safety-critical systems design. He holds an MSc and PhD in telecommunication engineering and has moved research-grade signal processing and VLSI insights into real-world cloud and embedded projects—from SIL4 safety architectures at Thales to high-performance trading infrastructure at DRW. His background spans low-level hardware, firmware and Linux systems through to distributed cloud optimization, giving him a rare ability to tune performance across the full stack. A former AWS Solutions Architect, he excels at translating rigorous academic modeling into operational resilience and automated, geo-redundant deployments. Based in London, he blends research pedigree with practical delivery and a knack for migrating specialized embedded workloads onto commodity cloud platforms.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
System Networking und LAN-/WAN-Management/Manager, System Networking und LAN-/WAN-Management/Manager at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Macro Economics, Macro Economics at University of Vienna
Contributions:21 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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Michael Meidlinger - Team Lead, Cloud Performance at DRW