About Matthias Kainer
Software, systems, teams
Software developer, manager, consultant, and writer with a long-running curiosity for architecture, leadership, and sustainable technology.
From handwritten HTML to product systems, teams, and the useful side projects in between.
I have been building things for the web for more than 25 years. It started with Microsoft Publisher, continued with handwritten HTML, turned into a website-publishing startup, and never really stopped.
Over the years I worked as developer, consultant, manager, founder, and engineering leader. I helped build products and teams at Microsoft, AutoScout24, 1&1, ThoughtWorks, Volocopter, and Isar Aerospace, and I am now building INXM as CTO & Co-Founder while still writing, speaking, and experimenting in public.
What keeps me interested is rarely technology in isolation. I care about the combination of software, architecture, delivery, and organisational design: how systems are built, how teams make decisions, and how to keep both changeable without burning people out.
Sometimes that means product engineering, web architecture, and platform work. Sometimes it means leadership, coaching, feedback loops, and helping teams become more effective. And sometimes it means articles, talks, experiments, or a strange side project that teaches me something useful.
Career
Speaking & Publications
Over the years I spoke at events such as DevOpsCon, XPDays, ScrumDay, EnterJS, Agile Telekom Convention, and the L8 Birds Tech Talk.
My themes stayed fairly consistent: software architecture, delivery culture, healthy teams, change in organisations, frontend architecture, and the trade-offs behind modern software development.
Selected publications, interviews, and slide decks include:
- Cloud Benchmark, a Thoughtworks publication on MLaaS and cloud trade-offs.
- DevOps in the Enterprise - Change your Organization from bottom up, published with iX Developer.
- DevOps in the Enterprise - Change your Organization from bottom up, the related conference slide deck.
- [DE] Starken Teams beim wachsen helfen, a talk on helping strong teams grow.
- Interview - Datamin & Matthias Kainer, on right-sized data and strategy.
- Interview - 8Select & Matthias Kainer, on the state of microfrontends.
I also keep publishing long-form articles on this site and, more recently, through INXM — about software, leadership, AI, architecture, and the messy reality of building systems that need to survive contact with the real world.