Summary
Wolfgang Strack is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Additive. He has driven architecture and infrastructure transformations at multiple startups, notably re-architecting monoliths into event-driven microservices using Kafka, Kafka Streams, and Kubernetes while creating developer tooling and Helm charts to streamline onboardings. Comfortable across the full stack, he has hands-on experience with Python, Node.js/Meteor, React, and production data pipelines, and has repeatedly taken on DevOps and mentorship responsibilities. His background includes early web and automation work at NASA Ames and practical teaching/tutoring roles that sharpen his ability to explain complex concepts. Colleagues credit him for improving coding standards, CI workflows, and team culture—skills that complement his technical depth and pragmatic problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree (Pursuing) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree (Pursuing) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Transfer Computer Science, Transfer Computer Science at Ohlone College
Transfer Computer Science, Transfer Computer Science at De Anza College
High School, High School at American High School
English, Japanese, Tagalog