Summary
Thomas Jirout is an iOS Tech Lead based in Vienna with 10 years of experience building user-focused mobile and web products, currently guiding the Financial Health Cluster at Erste Digital to improve financial wellbeing for millions of George users. He combines hands-on iOS engineering with product sensibility—shaped by his mantra that design is how it works—and a track record of shipping consumer-grade apps like GetSorted, which helped users clean up hundreds of millions of photos and earned a 4.9/5 App Store rating. His background spans full-stack web work, scalable integrations (e.g., a Twilio-based call-center solution), and teaching usability engineering at university level, reflecting a strong emphasis on UX, performance, and scalable architectures. Outside product work he volunteers as an EMT, bringing steady judgment and calm under pressure to both crisis response and complex engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering and Internet Computing, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering and Internet Computing at Vienna University of Technology
Information Technology and Project Management, Information Technology and Project Management at HTL Rennweg
English, German