Summary
Thomas Trautner is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a long career in web and embedded development dating back to the late 1990s. He runs Trautner IT Services while simultaneously leading Techniker-Forum, a community he helped grow to over 210,000 members and 25,000 daily visitors, showing a rare combination of hands-on coding and community leadership. His technical background spans server-side PHP/Symfony and SQL, search with Elasticsearch, frontend HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, and native C#/C++ work for hardware testing, reflecting strong emphasis on code quality and performance. Thomas’s roots as an electrician and certified telecom technician give him practical insight into embedded systems and device testing that informs his software solutions. Based in Ulm, Germany, he brings steady entrepreneurial drive and a pragmatic, full-stack approach to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
Kommunikationselektroniker, Fachrichtung Telekommunikation, Kommunikationselektroniker, Fachrichtung Telekommunikation at Deutsche Telekom
staatlich geprüfter Informatiker, staatlich geprüfter Informatiker at DAA Technikum
German, English