Simon Schatka
Principal Software Engineer & Product Owner at Dynatrace
Linz, Upper Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Schatka is a Principal Software Engineer and Product Owner based in Linz with nine years of experience building and leading software teams at Dynatrace. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—particularly in JavaScript/TypeScript and a Java background—with product ownership and team leadership, driving both architecture and delivery. At Dynatrace he progressed from software engineer to principal level while captaining teams and shaping product strategy, evidencing strong technical and organizational growth. Simon contributes to open-source projects like hoarder, a self-hostable bookmark app where he implemented full-page screenshots, drag‑and‑drop tag merging, and multi‑URL import features, showing a knack for practical automation and UX improvements. He favors automation and efficiency in workflows, often tackling cross-cutting issues across front-end and back-end stacks. His Masters in Informatics from Johannes Kepler Universität Linz underpins a disciplined, research-informed approach to engineering and product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Informatics at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Github Skills (14)
link-manager10
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
nextjs10
react-native10
react10
bookmark10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
self-hosting9
git9
html8
css7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hoarder-app/hoarder
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 94 PRs, 373 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon actively contributed to the development of the "hoarder" application, a self-hostable bookmark manager. Their work involved both front-end and back-end development, including feature implementation for full-page screenshots, tag merging via drag and drop, and support for multiple URL imports. They also addressed code improvements and bug fixes, demonstrating involvement across different parts of the application.
bookmark-managerbookmarksbookmarks-managernextjsreact-native
kamtschatka/hoarder-app
May 2024 - Jan 2025
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
Contributions:110 pushes, 139 branches in 8 months
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