Summary
Stefan Rinke is a pragmatic CTO and principal architect with over 14 years of senior software leadership, currently leading technology at octomind after architecting collaboration and conferencing platforms at LogMeIn and Citrix. He blends hands-on engineering in Java, Kotlin, Go and TypeScript with deep expertise in cloud-native SaaS, online collaboration, ML-enabled systems, IoT and enterprise integration. Known for leading the GoTo Meeting architecture, he’s comfortable moving between board-level strategy and low-level system design, including security and BI concerns. As a long-time freelance consultant and active maintainer of niche projects like pin2dmd and go-dmd, he brings an entrepreneurial, product-minded approach to solving complex integration challenges. Based in Ettlingen, Germany, he pairs a Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering from KIT with a career that spans both consumer-facing collaboration tools and specialized open-source hardware/software projects.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik und Elektronik at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English