Michael Ströck
Co-Founder & CEO at Allocator One
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolMichael Ströck is a seasoned founder and software leader with 19 years of experience building product-led companies and shipping thoughtful UI work. As Co-Founder & CEO of Allocator One and a serial founder behind ventures like Gustav and KochAbo, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic company-building from Vienna. His open-source contributions include front-end improvements to ViennaRSS, a well-regarded macOS RSS reader, showing attention to UX detail and localization. He also co-founded the WE&ME Foundation, applying his entrepreneurial skills to fundraising and advocacy for ME/CFS research. Known for moving between product, code, and board-level strategy, he pairs practical technical depth with a founder’s instinct for market fit.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y Combinator
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
uid10
macos10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
objective-c9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
localization7
punycode6
cocoa-touch6
dns6
cocoa6
idn6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ViennaRSS/vienna-rss
Dec 2006 - Aug 2015
Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:508 commits, 1 push in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the user interface of Vienna, an RSS reader for macOS. Their work involved implementing new features related to iTunes-like functionality, enhancing the appearance of the toolbar and its buttons, adding a visual indicator for filtering, and making the filename in the enclosure view clickable. The user also contributed to the creation of localized German versions of the UI components.
rssrss-readeratom-readerviennanewsreader
hellogustav/fb-chatbot-boilerplate
May 2016 - May 2016
A simple starter app for getting into Facebook Messenger chatbots.
Contributions:72 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
chatbotschatmessenger-chatbotsfacebookbots
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