Summary
Michael Renner is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating web applications and internet services, currently shaping core systems at GitHub. He blends hands-on engineering with team leadership and operations management, having progressed from enterprise support to senior and staff engineering roles within the same company. His background includes founding startups and leading infrastructure teams across cloud and research-focused organizations, giving him a practical entrepreneurial lens on reliability and scalability. A certified Scrum Master who prefers remote roles, he is as comfortable managing cross-functional operations teams as he is diving into low-level system and deployment details. Based in Gmunden, Austria, he brings a rare combination of long-term operational experience and product-facing engineering at scale.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, German