Summary
Usiel Riedl is a versatile Code Wrangler and staff-level systems and data engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade services and data pipelines across startups and global platforms. Based in Singapore and currently working on Tumblr under Automattic, he spans backend and infrastructure technologies including PHP, Python, Scala, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Kafka, Flink and Druid. He has led engineering teams as VP/Head of Engineering, shipping ML-driven forecasting and routing optimizations (including a VRPTW solver that quintupled deliveries per rider) while still contributing hands-on code across languages like Java, C++ and JavaScript. Comfortable across bare-metal and cloud environments, he designs resilient distributed systems, real-time tracking, and programmatic ad platforms. Known as a pragmatic generalist, he blends product thinking, optimization and team leadership to turn research-grade ideas into reliable production features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Information Systems at Technical University of Munich
Business Informatics, Business Informatics at Utrecht University
German, English, Dutch