Timo Besenreuther
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at deskbird
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTimo Besenreuther is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 16 years of experience building product-driven engineering organizations from early-stage teams to scale. Currently leading engineering and product at deskbird, he previously grew KINEXON’s tech and product function through rapid expansion—overseeing up to 14 teams and 120 people and helping secure a $130M funding round. He combines hands-on systems and backend expertise (early contributor to Piwik/Matomo analytics) with organizational design, process improvements, and go-to-market product strategy. Comfortable across software, firmware, hardware and robotics stacks, he has repeatedly built teams, CI/CD pipelines and robust architectures from the ground up. Based in Bavaria with an MS in Informatics from TUM, he pairs academic rigor with practical startup grit. Notably, his open-source contributions to Matomo’s tracking library reflect a privacy-minded engineering approach that complements his product leadership.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatics, Master of Science - MS Informatics at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (7)
php10
javascript10
web-analytics10
api-design9
analytics9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
matomo-org/matomo
Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 1 push, 6 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Timo's contributions focused on enhancements to the Piwik/Matomo analytics platform, specifically targeting the JavaScript tracking library (`piwik.js`) and the Actions API. The commits demonstrate work on tracking different file types for download, including xlsx, docx, and pptx, and addressing a page overlay issue. Furthermore, the user was involved in addressing some bugs in the codebase.
analyticspiwikcollectmatomomysql
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