Experience
- Co-founded the venture and lead all engineering as CTO — product architecture, full-stack development and infrastructure.
- Building returnme, an AI-powered returns solution that turns costly e-commerce returns into profitable, direct resales between end customers.
- Originally launched as pickme, an independent network of parcel shops and pickup boxes for reliable delivery and effortless returns, before pivoting to returnme at the end of 2025.
Self-employed IT Consultant & Software Engineer
flow-it.io · Vienna, Austria
- Deliver client websites and frontends from design through deployment and hosting.
- Engineer full-stack web tools and applications end-to-end.
- Architect and operate software, IT and IoT landscapes across multiple clients.
Head of Engineering
umdasch Digital Retail · Vienna, Austria
- Led and coached a team of 7 software engineers.
- Restructured internal processes, communication and workflows across the team and its environment.
- Instilled an agile mindset and defined cross-department collaboration interfaces.
- Administered Linux systems from low-level Debian on embedded devices (Raspberry Pi) up to cloud and web servers.
- Owned architecture and delivery of the IoT cloud platform powering the Liquid Dispenser — 120+ connected refill stations across Austria, with rollouts in 4+ countries.
- Platform powered an award-winning product: German Innovation Award, Green Product Award and Austrian Ecolabel.
Technical Consultant — Artificial Intelligence
BRZ · Vienna, Austria
- Directed requirements engineering and delivery management using Jira and Confluence.
- Coordinated an 8-person engineering team across project and operations topics.
- Evaluated machine-learning platforms within an innovation project.
Software Architect & Test Engineer
Riedel Communications GmbH & Co KG · Vienna, Austria
- Designed and implemented automated tests, test cases and test environments.
- Conducted peer reviews, bug tracking and requirements engineering with testers, developers and product owner.
- Served as scrum master, coaching and supporting fellow engineers.
Hardware & Software Engineer · Team Leader
Genera Printer GmbH · Vienna, Austria
- Engineered the electronic design, software architecture and implementation of a prototype 3D printer.
- Achieved millisecond-precise resin exposure on a Raspberry Pi — writing directly to the framebuffer via a custom device tree, where projection timing was the critical print-quality parameter.
- Led a team of 4 software engineers.
- Advanced product development from prototype to series production.
Digital Design, Hardware & Software Engineer
IMS Nanofabrication GmbH · Vienna, Austria
- Engineered design-for-test (DFT) functionality for a high-speed data-transmission system using the Interlaken and White Rabbit protocols.
- Authored design specifications from requirements.
- Designed and implemented ASIC and Xilinx FPGA architectures in VHDL/SystemVerilog, with simulation, synthesis and timing closure.
- Produced and maintained documentation for varied audiences.
- Supported the verification team in finding and debugging failures.
Digital Design, Hardware & Software Engineer
CERN & MedAustron · Geneva, Switzerland & Vienna, Austria
- Designed and built a custom Xilinx-FPGA-based embedded system for magnetic-field measurement, current regulation and control in particle acceleration.
- Diagnosed and resolved digital-design, hardware and software problems accurately and on schedule.
- Authored clear, thorough specifications and documentation.
- Supervised students and trained users on the embedded systems and software.
Hardware & Software Engineer
Ars Electronica · Linz, Austria
- Developed hardware and software across international, multidisciplinary projects with direct customer contact.
- Built sensor-integration software in C/C++, C# and Python.
Education
MSc — Embedded Systems Design
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria · Hagenberg Campus
BSc — Hardware & Software Design
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria · Hagenberg Campus
Selected Projects
eda-o7sim
EDA / RTL simulation tooling · github.com/mprska/eda-o7sim
ricodebug
Founding contributor — graphical debugger (GDB frontend), during studies · github.com/rainerf/ricodebug