Tim Brückmann is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 14+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing product and platform teams across startups and enterprises. Currently VP of Engineering at Actindo, he previously led 50+ person distributed organizations at Spryker and drove rapid product launches and engineering transformations at METRO Markets and Facebook. He combines hands-on mobile engineering roots—evidenced by significant open-source contributions like a UICollectionView replacement for older iOS—with strategic experience in autonomous team design, outcome-focused KPIs, and cloud-native/AI adoption. Tim has repeatedly taken products from concept to thousands-of-users scale (notably Grid’s event commerce platform) while optimizing for availability, cost and developer autonomy. Based in Erkelenz, Germany, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of measurable delivery improvements and cross-functional leadership.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Informatik, Bachelor of Science Informatik at University of Düsseldorf
Open Source, 100% API compatible replacement of UICollectionView for iOS4.3+
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:21 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the development of a UICollectionView replacement for iOS. Their work focused on implementing core features and improving existing functionalities such as cell and supplementary view management, selection, and highlighting. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of UICollectionView's behavior, with adjustments to layout attributes, frame management, and event handling. They also introduced improved features related to reloads, cell lifecycle, and accessibility features, along with fixes and optimizations.
Contributions:6 releases, 38 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
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