Philipp Henkel
Senior Engineering Manager at Personio
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Henkel is a senior engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and scaling product-focused software organizations across SaaS, cloud and AI domains from Karlsruhe, Germany. He has led teams of up to 40 engineers and three managers, shaping agile, OKR-driven delivery for data annotation, collaboration and web conferencing products while preserving autonomy and trust. Known for turning engineering groups into high-quality, customer-centric units, he has hands-on experience across frontend, backend, infrastructure and embedded/mobile stacks dating back to C++ infotainment and video systems. He emphasizes cultures that allow safe failure and experimentation, and often pairs organizational design (squads/chapters) with hiring and onboarding processes to accelerate growth. A pragmatic technologist, he balances strategic scaling with day-to-day product delivery and has a track record of enabling cross-functional customer success engineering to shorten feedback loops.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Software Engineering, Parallel Computing, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Parallel Computing at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German
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Github Skills (2)
serf5
react2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
philipphenkel/post-reviewboard
Feb 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:129 commits in 1 year 7 months
freeserf/freeserf
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Settlers 1 (Serf City) clone.
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
reactgameserfremakesettlers
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