Simon Wallner
Technical Program Manager at LocalStack
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Wallner is a Technical Program Manager and product-led engineer with 16 years of experience blending software engineering, product design, and game development. Based in Vienna, he currently drives programs and product UX at LocalStack while transitioning from senior engineering roles into cross-functional leadership. Simon co-founded and led an indie studio (Lost in the Garden) that shipped multi-platform titles, giving him uncommon product empathy for player and developer workflows. He also has a strong academic and teaching background in visual computing from TU Wien, which informs his deep expertise in 3D graphics and interactive systems. Known for building teams, organizing community game events, and mentoring students, he brings an entrepreneurial mindset to cloud-native developer tooling. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear product roadmaps and pragmatic execution.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science - Visual Computing, Master's Degree Computer Science - Visual Computing at Vienna University of Technology
German, English, French, Danish
Stackoverflow
93reputation
12kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (29)
continuous-integration10
python10
localstack10
testing10
aws-cloud10
aws-lambda10
aws10
serverless-framework10
lambda10
serverless10
developer-tools10
documentation9
hash6
redirect6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SimonWallner/kocmoc-demo
Nov 2010 - Jun 2011
Contributions:320 commits in 7 months
SimonWallner/kocmoc-core
Aug 2011 - Dec 2013
Contributions:214 commits in 2 years 4 months
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