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Nico Riedmann

BSc Computer Science
Interested in smart systems and the interactions between smart people needed to create them


Passions

Supporting People as a Lead and a Developer I aim to have a positive impact, on …
… people figuring out what they want to achieve
… people and teams achieving their goals
… building environments enabling people to motivate themselves/supporting intrinsic motivation
… building innovative software that helps people in some way

Agile Software Development
Getting to be a part of adopting and figuring out Agile at incubedIT and seeing it at scale at Dynatrace,
both general Agile principles and the practices of creating software that allows for being agile fascinate me.
Since 2021 I co-organize Agile International Graz - an English-language Agile Meetup in Graz.

Supporting Personal Development
Sharing knowledge and helping people grow has been a common theme from my civilian service, through my studies to my work and personal projects.
Mentoring, Leadership Training sparing partner, public speaking and communication trainings, talks & blog posts, RoboCup Junior Head Referee/Referee Trainer

Experience

06.2025- Senior Manager Software Engineering Dynatrace
01.2024-06.2025 Manager Software Engineering Dynatrace

  • As an engineering manager, I work with platform engineering teams building our platform’s Cloud and Kubernetes foundations, as well as delivery and orchestration workflows and tooling.
  • In addition to direct leadership for Team Captains (engineer with team-leadership aspects) and team members, general management tasks like hiring or managing oncall, and collaborating with Product stakeholders and management peers, I work to continuously improve how we work and collaborate, to make sure the right people connect to solve the right problems at the right time.
  • As part of the Office Innsbruck leadership team, I focus on local continuous improvement, events and employer branding.

06.2022-01.2024 Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead Dynatrace

  • Turning a side-project into a new dev team as Team Captain of Dynatrace’s new Monitoring as Code team building configuration-as-code for Dynatrace.
  • Growing a distributed team from zero to five engineers.
  • Collaborating closely with organizational and product stakeholders in setting up useful processes and interactions.
  • As an engineer on the team and co-creator of the software the team is formed around, developing in Go with a special focus on knowledge sharing, performance, and software design of key areas.

05.2020-06.2022 (Senior) Software Engineer & Team Lead Dynatrace

  • Team Captain of a team working on the Kubernetes platform and core services enabling the development of Dynatrace Account Experience and Licensing services.
  • Supporting a distributed team’s growth from two to seven developers during the pandemic as a people lead, developer and technical product owner scoping work packages and roadmaps with product management and architects.
  • In addition to helping my team succeed as a lead, I worked with management and other team leads locally on Agile practices, collaboration, and culture in several initiatives.
  • As an engineer on the team, I mostly focussed on Java services on Kubernetes, Kafka, and CI/CD - while also working on the Dynatrace configuration-as-code tool ‘Monaco’ written in Go as a side-project.
  • Senior Software Engineer since 02.2021.

10.2019-05.2020 Software Engineer Dynatrace

  • Developing core microservices as well as legacy applications in licensing and support tooling domains using Java.
  • Coordinating with technical and product stakeholders in taking over responsibility for support tooling applications.
  • Go development on dev tooling and creating the Dynatrace configuration-as-code tool “Monaco” with a colleague.

07.2016-10.2019 Software Engineer Robotics & Software Architect incubedIT

  • Java and C++ software development and design in an Agile team.
  • Worked on both fleet-management logic and robot control logic frameworks and software.
  • Focused on Software Architecture and technical team leadership from late 2018 to late 2019.

Volunteering

09.2021-now Meetup co-organizer Agile International Graz, New Leadership & CNCF meetups

  • Founding and co-organizing a CNCF Community Group in Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Founding and co-organizing an Agile Software Development meetup in Graz, Austria and remote.
  • Co-organizing a Leadership and New Work focused meetup, with special focus on a leadership book club in Graz, Austria and remote.
  • Event planning including speaker and host coordination, and driving technical setup for remote/hybrid meetups.
  • Frequent panel discussion moderator and occasional speaker.

01.2016-now Referee/Referee Trainer/League Chair RoboCupJunior Austrian Open

  • I started volunteering as a referee and am currently a head referee/league chair and referee trainer at RoboCup Junior Austria, a yearly educational robotics competition for students up through age 19.
  • My role here spans from general organization from setup to scheduling competion for hundreds of students, to conflict resolution and troubleshooting - quite similar to my day-job as a manager ;)

Education

continuously Personal development by reading

2023 Flight Levels Academy - Introduction to Flight Levels

2018 iSAQB® Certified Professional for Software Architecture

  • Foundation Level

2013-2018 Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & unfinished Master’s TU Graz

  • Notable subjects: C/C++ and Java Programming, Design and Development of
  • Large Systems, OO Design, AI, Robotics.
  • Master’s in robotics interrupted to focus on technical leadership and robotics in practice at incubedIT.

Skills

  • Engineering Management · People Management · Team Coordination · Hiring
  • Mentoring · Coaching · Communication
  • Problem Solving · Analytical Skills
  • Agile Software Development· Agile Methodologies · Hiring
  • Platform Engineering · Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) · Cloud Computing · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Git · GitHub Action · Jenkins
  • Go · Java · some Python & C++

Languages

  • German (native)
  • English (proficient)
  • French (rusty basics)