Thomas Ströder
Professor at Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Ströder is a professor and seasoned software leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack teams and distributed, microservice-based systems across academia and industry. He has grown engineering organizations from single teams to dozens of developers, led agile transformations, and balanced hands-on technical work with strategic leadership as a location manager and department head. With a PhD and top grades from RWTH Aachen, he combines deep research in automated software verification and robotics with practical product delivery for large, multi-country platforms. Thomas prioritizes empowerment, trust, and capability development over command-and-control, and is known for fostering sustainable engineering cultures that amplify team autonomy. An unassuming innovator, he bridges rigorous academic methods and pragmatic software craftsmanship to solve complex, high-availability problems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Promotion, Informatik, 1,0, Promotion, Informatik, 1,0 at RWTH Aachen University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
measurement7
tla7
benchmark7
benchmarking7
cgroups7
linux6
verification6
extern6
allocation6
python6
java6
global-variables6
integer-division6
biginteger6
security4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cryingshadow/cantemuspage
Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
cryingshadow/EventAssignment
Feb 2018 - Jan 2025
Standalone Java tool to assign participants evenly to events maximizing personal preferences.
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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