Summary
Wolfgang Hennerbichler is a Staff Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building and leading SRE and observability teams at major tech companies, currently driving performance engineering at GitHub. He blends deep hands-on site reliability expertise with people leadership, having progressed from SRE and tech lead roles at Google to senior management across observability and performance domains. Known for automating himself out of repetitive work, he focuses on scalable automation, monitoring, and measurable system performance. Based in the Klagenfurt-Villach area of Austria, he pairs an M.Sc. in Information Technology with a career that spans network engineering at Internet exchanges to architecting advanced computing solutions. Pragmatic and systems-minded, he brings a track record of turning operational complexity into reliable, observable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt
Borg Perg