Oliver Kress
Head Of New Business at Star Finanz
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Kress is a versatile product and business leader with 13 years of experience driving digital transformation and MVP delivery from Hamburg, Germany. Currently Head of New Business at Star Finanz and founder of Tomkick, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a strong record of building product organizations and launching B2B platforms. His background spans product leadership, agile coaching and technical roles across payments, identity, and media, including leading paywall and communication platform rollouts for major German companies. Hands-on enough to contribute to open-source front-end work—improving widget integration and internationalization for the Element Matrix client—he bridges UX-aware engineering with strategic product decisions. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic, testable implementations, he thrives at the intersection of user-centered design and scalable delivery. Fluent in navigating both startup and enterprise contexts, he brings a pragmatic, outcomes-first approach to new business initiatives.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Information and Documentation, Information and Documentation at Fachhochschule Darmstadt
English, German
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Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
web-widgets10
javascript10
widgets10
dart10
react10
sorting10
dropdown-menu9
silverlight9
xna9
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
element-hq/element-web
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Element web application. Their work includes implementing features related to widgets, such as allowing file downloads, and integrating the passing of the user's current language and device ID. They also addressed issues with the room layout functionality, adding tests to ensure programmatic height adjustments. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving widget integration, internationalization, and user experience within the application.
javascriptcollaborationmatrix-collaborationkaiosmatrix
nordeck/matrix-widget-toolkit
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Reusable framework for creating Matrix widgets
Contributions:123 reviews, 241 commits, 142 PRs in 4 months
widgetmatrix-widget-apimatrixwidgetsreusable
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