Philipp Tessenow
Engineering Team Lead at Remote
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Tessenow is an experienced engineering leader in Berlin with 14 years building and shipping web applications, now leading distributed teams as an Engineering Team Lead for a remote-first company. He combines hands-on architecture and project management with a solid academic foundation from Hasso Plattner Institute (M.Sc. IT-Systems Engineering), and a history of mentoring and team leadership from his long tenure at bitcrowd. Known for pragmatic, reliable delivery across the stack, he still enjoys tinkering—balancing code, product decisions, and the occasional pun. An active speaker at conferences like ElixirConf EU, he brings a curiosity for functional approaches and developer experience that informs his architecture choices. Outside work he’s a father and maker, which shows in a practical, iterative approach to solving complex problems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Germany
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
bug-tracker10
ubuntu10
webextension10
portable10
ifc10
project-management10
edit10
project-planning10
windows10
ruby10
webassembly10
scalable10
sandbox10
analyzer10
wasi10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tessi/rpiet
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
The Piet interpreter written in Rust 🖼
Contributions:1 review, 73 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 6 months
rustinterpreterpietpiet-interpreter
tessi/malloc_trim
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Gives some ruby memory back to the OS
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
memoryruby
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