Peter Steinberger
Founder at Amantus Machina
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Steinberger is a serial founder and seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building developer-centric products and scaling bootstrapped businesses into global B2B leaders. As founder of Amantus Machina he’s now focused on hyper-personal AI agents, having previously grown PSPDFKit from a one-person startup into a remote-first company used by Apple, Dropbox and Adobe. He blends deep hands-on engineering—especially in iOS frameworks and open-source projects like PSTCollectionView, Aspects and contributions to AFNetworking—with product and CEO-level strategy. Peter co-founded Founders of Europe to support pre-seed startups and consistently translates complex technical research into usable SDKs and developer tools. Known for returning "from retirement to mess with AI," he pairs pragmatic shipping discipline with a curiosity for declarative UI and cross-language tooling. Based in the UK with roots in embedded and desktop tooling, he brings rare breadth from low-level mobile engineering to product-led company building.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyHigher School Certificate Electrical Engineering Computer Science, Higher School Certificate Electrical Engineering Computer Science at HTL Braunau
German, English
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Github Skills (48)
accessibility10
uitest10
objective-c10
debug10
hook10
ios10
animation10
ui-components10
pdf10
user-interface10
ui-design10
networking10
java10
afnetworking10
javas10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
steipete/AFDownloadRequestOperation
Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
A progressive download operation for AFNetworking.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to an iOS project focused on AFNetworking, a networking library. Their contributions centered on enhancing the `AFDownloadRequestOperation` class, including fixing bugs, modernizing the codebase, and adding features. The user addressed issues such as resuming downloads, error handling, and code style improvements. The commits indicate a focus on improving the download operation's stability, reliability, and functionality.
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steipete/PSStackedView
Jul 2011 - Mar 2015
open source implementation of Twitter/iPad stacked ui - done right.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of UI elements and interactions within the `PSStackedView` project. Their commits focused on enhancing view embedding, fixing layout issues in landscape mode, and improving the animation behavior and responsiveness of the stacked view. They also addressed issues related to touch handling and gesture recognizers. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the visual presentation and user experience of the project.
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