Simon Pfeifhofer
Co-Founder at emergo technologies GmbH
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Pfeifhofer is a seasoned software entrepreneur and full-stack solutions designer with over a decade of hands-on experience building embedded systems, IoT platforms, distributed systems and machine learning applications. As co-founder of multiple ventures including emergo technologies and Distributed Ledger GmbH, he blends technical depth with product and business decision-making to scale long-term ventures. His background spans roles from developer and architect to CTO-level leadership and lecturer, enabling him to translate complex concepts into digestible teaching and pragmatic engineering. Based in Innsbruck, he leverages a formal IT management MA and a BSc in Informatics to bridge strategy and implementation while freeing teams to focus on higher-level innovation. Notably, he routinely moves between early prototyping and production-grade architectures, keeping pace with new domains and technologies to drive measurable capacity gains.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, IT - Management, Master of Arts - MA, IT - Management at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementBachelor of Science (BSc), Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Informatics at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
Github Skills (78)
mbed10
internet10
linux9
operating-system9
arm9
bigchaindb9
kernel9
datepicker8
sdk8
datetimepicker8
cosmos8
blockchain8
ethereum8
mongodb8
json8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
world-direct/wakaama
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Forked from https://github.com/eclipse/wakaama
Contributions:5 PRs, 15 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 10 months
eclipsewakaama
world-direct/mbed-os
Feb 2017 - May 2019
ARM mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Contributions:28 PRs, 113 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 3 months
kernelmbed-osoperating-systemlinuxmbed
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