Simon Lasselsberger
Lead System Architect, Runtastic GmbH

Website | @lasssim

Simon Lasselsberger is lead system architect at Runtastic, where he works on the Rails web page and Ruby backend. The company’s fourth full-time employee, Simon helped to scale the technical system and the development teams, was in charge of the backend development team for several years, and was part of the project team to transition the development process from departments to Agile feature teams. He started his professional life in chip design but always loved software a little bit more—not just because software is more agile than hardware development but also because he enjoys being able to tackle bigger problems at higher abstraction levels. That’s why he also fell in love with Ruby when he first tried it out.