Michael Schier
Software Engineer Architect at Wētā FX
Bad Häring, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schier is a Software Engineer Architect with 13 years of experience designing and delivering production-grade systems across media, VFX, and enterprise domains. He combines deep expertise in networks, video coding/streaming, and event-driven architectures with hands-on skills in languages and tools from Python, Go and C# to Kubernetes, Docker, Redis and ElasticSearch. At Wētā FX he has driven implementation and support of large-scale production tracking and tooling under tight deadlines, coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Previously he served as an Information Systems Technical Architect at Unity and has a strong academic background in computer science (Dr.techn.) tied to research in network-aware video streaming. He thrives on evaluating new technologies and turning complex requirements into efficient, elegant solutions, often favoring pragmatic automations and observability improvements. Based in Bad Häring, Austria, he brings a blend of systems-level rigor and creative problem-solving uncommon in typical application architects.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bundesrealgymnasium WörglDr.techn., Computer Science, Dr.techn., Computer Science at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
English, German
Github Skills (28)
sentry10
elasticsearch-client10
refactoring10
ws4py9
monitor9
monitoring9
apm9
python9
django9
client-library9
devops9
crash-reports9
elastic8
elasticsearch8
error-logging8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
schiermike/syncarus
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 1 tag in 1 month
schiermike/vitographer
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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