Philip Niedertscheider

Vienna, Austria

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Philip Niedertscheider is a senior software engineer and mobile-focused CTO with nine years of experience building and maintaining production-grade iOS and macOS systems from startups to enterprise. Currently a maintainer of Sentry’s Cocoa SDK and its Apple-platform setup wizard, he blends hands-on Swift development with cross-platform collaboration across Android, Flutter and RN ecosystems. As technical co-founder of kula and techprimate he designed automated app deployment, scalable cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes/AWS) and CI/CD pipelines that shrank release cycles from weeks to days, and applied LLMs to democratize app creation. An active open-source maintainer (notably TPPDF, a Swift PDF builder) and researcher in mobile security, he pairs strong platform expertise with practical product and team leadership. Based in Vienna, he brings a rare mix of low-level Apple platform mastery, operational infrastructure experience and startup grit.

9 years of coding experience

7 years of employment as a software developer

Vienna University of Technology

Matura, Maschinenbau und Automatisierungstechnik, Matura, Maschinenbau und Automatisierungstechnik at HTL Bregenz

Startup Incubation Program, Startup Incubation Program at TU Wien Innovation Incubation Center (i²c)

Rettungssanitäter, Ausgezeichneter Erfolg, Rettungssanitäter, Ausgezeichneter Erfolg at Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz

Auslandsschuljahr, Auslandsschuljahr at Centennial High School

German, English

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (11)

table-html10

pdf-generation10

swift10

ios10

table-structure10

xcode6

scenekit6

uisearchbar6

math6

translation6

3d6

Programming languages (19)

C#MDXSmartyJavaC++RustGoKotlin

Github contributions (5)

techprimate/TPPDF

Mar 2017 - Dec 2022

TPPDF is a simple-to-use PDF builder for iOS and macOS written in Swift

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer (iOS)

Contributions:30 releases, 9 reviews, 815 commits in 5 years 10 months

Contributions summary:Philip was a developer primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the TPPDF iOS/macOS PDF builder, with all commit messages indicating direct code changes. The contributions centered around implementing custom table cell styling, including methods for setting cell styles on specific cells. Other improvements included adding features such as landscape rotation for pages, and various code cleanups.

cocoapodspdfbuildersimple-to-useswift

philprime/philprime.dev

Feb 2022 - Mar 2025

Contributions:40 PRs, 111 pushes, 45 branches in 3 years 1 month

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