Felix Geller

Goal-oriented software engineer with team and project lead experience, based in Austria.

Experience

Engineer / Team Lead
— 2026
  • Led design and implementation of core servicing component for merchant cash advances, with multiple collection strategies supporting 10k transactions per day across about thousands of advances.
  • Designed and built partner split collection strategy enabling API-driven repayments for large partners (Uber, Housecall Pro, GoDaddy).
  • Co-led design and implementation of partner API, enabling partners to selectively automate parts of the onboarding flow, supporting a full-serve integration.
  • Drove full app rollout to CA market and expanded payment infrastructure to support GB, CA, AU markets with respective payment rails.
  • Replaced manual spreadsheet-based investor portfolio reporting with automated solution processing millions of line items.
  • Go · Typescript
  • PostgreSQL · BigQuery
  • Github · BuildKite
  • DataDog · Sentry
  • PagerDuty · Incident.io
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • GCP
Engineer / Team Lead
  • Owned port of core marketplace components from REST to gRPC interface (buybox and checkout).
  • Built refund support and automated payout commission calculations.
  • Integrated external solutions for fraud risk assessment and coupon management.
  • Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Team Lead within three months to build and grow a new team.
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Gitlab
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • GCP
Engineer / Team Lead
  • Owned migration of high-throughput email campaign system from monolithic to micro-service architecture to achieve millions of emails in under 5 minutes and ensure safe processing of loyalty points across multiple active campaigns.
  • Set up monitoring, alerting and continuous integration infrastructure to support rapid delivery in a micro-service environment.
  • Technical lead for AMC integration, one of the largest cinema chains in the US.
  • Drove interface localization of main web application to support expansion into Hispanic and Asian markets.
  • Ported performance-critical segmentation application from row- to column-oriented database to achieve two orders of magnitude speed-up.
  • Go · Scala · PHP
  • MariaDB · Cassandra
  • Kafka
  • Prometheus · Grafana
  • Jenkins · Github
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • AWS
Engineer
  • Designed and developed web application for monitoring and inspecting fraud cases in VoIP networks.
  • Developed a multi-process application to detect and prevent fraudulent use of VoIP networks based on packet inspection.
  • Python · Javascript
  • Flask · ExtJS
  • Redis
  • zmq
Engineer Intern
  • Developed compiler-frontend for a Smalltalk derivative research language.
  • Newspeak · Javascript
Engineer
  • Transformed semi-structured data to optimize search access on pons.eu.
  • Developed web application interface for community-driven dictionary.
  • Java · XSLT · Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
Engineer Intern
  • Developed Android app for end user to report car insurance claim directly to SAP business services.
  • Implemented an OASIS standard compliant messaging component.
  • Java
  • Android
  • SAP Netweaver JEE
Engineer
  • Developed interface to manage sensor readings for fire safety experiments.
  • Java · Servlets
  • Oracle DB
Engineer Intern
  • Designed and implemented a phone directory with user privileges.
  • Java · Servlets · JSF
  • MS SQL

Education

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