Steven Syrek
Senior Engineering Manager at DeepL
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSteven Syrek is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building teams and systems at the intersection of product, data, and commercial strategy. At DeepL he has launched the company on AWS Marketplace, built a Partnerships Tech function from scratch, led procurement of a unified experimentation and feature-flag platform, and scaled AI coding practices to 500+ active users org-wide. Previously he advanced HelloFresh’s experimentation program, growing experiment velocity and product KPI coverage while coaching multiple ICs into senior roles. A dual US/German citizen and founder of several Berlin tech meetups and an AI-assisted engineering conference, he blends operational rigor with community-building and developer advocacy. Unusually for an engineering leader, he’s also the founder and chief instructor of Aikido Kokikai Berlin (5th degree black belt), reflecting long-term discipline and teaching experience that inform his people-first management style.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), English Language and Literature, General, Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), English Language and Literature, General at Rutgers University–New BrunswickMaster's degree, English, Master's degree, English at Rutgers University
English, German
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Github Skills (143)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sjsyrek/monadjs
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
sjsyrek/presentations
May 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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