Torben Brodt
CTO Affinity AI & Opinary at Affinity Global Inc.
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTorben Brodt is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 17 years building planet-scale, sub-100ms real-time and streaming systems that embed ML/AI. He has grown engineering organizations from a single founder to 200 people across four continents, led Opinary’s product and tech strategy for publishers and brands, and helped steer a company through acquisition by WPP. Skilled in data infrastructure, programmatic advertising, and cloud-native scalability, he combines hands-on backend performance tuning (including open-source contributions) with executive-level product vision. Based in Berlin, he brings entrepreneurial grit from founding early developer communities and search framework projects to running cross-disciplinary teams that turn interaction data into measurable conversion uplift. An oft-overlooked strength is his longevity in both deep engineering roles and global management, enabling rapid, pragmatic decisions under real-time constraints.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Informatik at Hochschule RheinMain
German, English
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Github Skills (14)
php10
wcf10
performance-optimization10
database-design9
application-framework7
web-framework7
app-framework7
cms7
latitude-longitude6
maps6
seo6
javascript6
friendly-url6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WoltLab/WCF
Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
WoltLab Suite Core (previously WoltLab Community Framework)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Torben primarily contributed to improving the performance and stability of the WoltLab Suite Core. Their work included performance optimizations by addressing slow magic getters and optimizing code with spaces. The user also addressed undefined variable issues by labeling them with TODOs, and fixed issues related to class signatures, ensuring the code's overall integrity. Additionally, the user made minor corrections and refactoring.
cmswscjavascriptphpframework
mrthomas108/map-wcf
Jan 2009 - Aug 2013
Contributions:120 commits in 4 years 8 months
googlewoltlabgoogle-maps
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