Michael Diener

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Experience

  • 2 decades in IT and spatial technologies
  • 15+ years software engineering
  • 8+ years leadership, management
  • 4 product launches
  • 2 startups
  • 2 languages English, German
  • 1 book published

Current positions include:

Time Frame Company Position Website
07.01.2020 - today Strucinspect GmbH (a Palfinger Company) Head of Development strucinspect.com
07.01.2019 - 07.01.2020 Strucinspect GmbH (a Palfinger Company) Engineering Manager strucinspect.com
01.04.2008 - today GOMOGI Geographic Intelligence Founder, CTO gomogi.com
indrz.com
golfgis.com

Education

I am a self tought coder. I enjoy learning and became aware of computer science benefits late in my university program and decided to finish my geography, gis, biology degree without adding computer science. Since my first coop job in 1999 however I began scripting in ArcGIS AML (Arc Macro Language) and Unix Bash. Then I moved to Python. In 2006 began to learn C# for mobile application development on Windows Mobile. In 2008 my focused moved to web application development with Python, Django, Flask, JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt and Golang. I never looked back.

Time Frame Where Description Website
2000 - today Self tought, Books, Online Computer Science, software development, leadership, management, agile gomogi.com
1998 - 2001 Simon Fraser University Geography, GIS, Cartography, Biology sfu.ca
1996 - 1998 Capilano University Geography, Biology capilanou.ca

My Book list

Reading

Title Author Topic Read it
Human Compatible Stuart Russel Berkeley homepage AI and the problem of control 2023-01
The Singularity is Near Ray Kurzweil Wikipedia Ray Kurzweil When Humans Transcend Biology 2022-12
DevOps Handbook v2 Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren Amazon Books How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations 2022-10
Indistractable Nir Eyal. Julie Li How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life 2022-09
The Hard Things About The Hard Things Ben Horowitz, Kevin Kenerly, et al.https://a16z.com/author/ben-horowitz/ Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers 2022-08
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson Mark Manson homepage A counterintuitive approach to living a good life 2022
Think like Amazon John Rossman linkedin.com/in/john-rossman Communication, Company Growth, Corporate Culture 2022
How Google Works Eric Schmidt, Johnathan Rosenberg ericschmidt.com/books an insider's guide to Google 2022
Trillion Dollar Coach Bill Campbell Eric Schmidt, Johnathan Rosenberg ericschmidt.com/books Coaching, Mentorship, Leadership 2022
Managing Humans Michael Lopp randsinrepose.com Leadership 2021
Dichotomy of Leadership Joko Willink echelonfront.com/books Leadership 2021
Measure What Matters John Doer whatmatters.com/the-book Goal Setting 2021
Inteligent Automation Pascal Bornet linkedin.com/in/pascalbornet Intelligent Automation 2022
Deep Work Cal Newport calnewport.com Productivity, Life Hacks 2021
Ride Of A Lifetime Robert Iger amazon.de Leadership 2021

Skills

What I spend my time doing

  • PEOPLE: Care about the happiness, wellbeing, and productivity of my engineering team
  • HR: design hiring plans, recruiting strategy, and manage interview process
  • TEAM: promote leadership, inspiration, mentoring, and productivity
  • TEAM: Motivation: building autonomy, mastery and providing a purpose
  • TECH: Manage, review, design system architecture
  • TECH: Align IT stragtegy with business goals
  • FINANCE: Budget and resource planning
  • COLLABORATION: with operations, sales, marketing, finance, helping business move forward

For a copy of my full CV please contact me directly.

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