Philipp Berner
Working On What's Next With AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhilipp Berner is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building consumer and collaboration products at scale, including co-founding Keepsafe (75–100M users) where he served as CTO and head of product. As CEO of Closer he helped bridge in-office collaboration to remote teams before its acquisition by ClickUp, and he now focuses on what’s next in AI while advising and investing in startups. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping mobile A/B frameworks, core iOS/Android work, and distributed engineering teams across SF, Berlin and Krakow—with product and security leadership. Known for turning consumer privacy and collaboration needs into profitable SaaS, he brings a pragmatic founder’s lens to early-stage investments. Based in San Francisco with a computer science background, he’s quietly prolific at connecting product strategy to engineering execution.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
2007 Computer Science, 2007 Computer Science at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
German, English, Danish
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Github Skills (152)
switchboard10
svg10
unused-resources10
feature-discovery10
sdk10
android-lint10
android-library10
discovery10
apk10
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android-app10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KeepSafe/zendesk-auto-translate
Jul 2015 - Feb 2019
Zendesk auto translate is a Google Chrome extension that translates customer support tickets inline. Currently based on the Google Translate API
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 7 months
apisupport-ticketstranslationzendeskgoogle-chrome-extension
KeepSafe/android-resource-remover
Feb 2014 - Mar 2018
A simple utility to remove unused resources in your Android app to lower the size of the APK. It's based on the Android lint tool output.
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 2 months
lintunusedapkandroidandroid-app
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