Hello Patrick! Shed some light on your life’s journey.
Initially, my childhood dream was to become a surgeon, but somewhere after high school, I shifted toward a more technical orientation. I studied Computer Science at JKU Linz and applied to Dynatrace (back then still dynaTrace) during that time, starting in 2006. So I began my professional career directly in the APM area.
I started as a client developer and quickly transitioned to mobile topics. Over the years, I moved through roles as Software Engineer, Team Captain, Product Owner, and finally landed as Product Architect - always with a focus on mobile topics.
Tell us about your work and what interesting things you’re working on.
My work focus has always been in the mobile area, ever since the topic came up in connection with monitoring in Dynatrace. During my time as a Software Engineer and Team Captain, I worked more on the functional side of our mobile agents, implementing new features and improving compatibility.
As a Product Architect, my focus has now shifted more toward the non-functional side, which involves looking at the bigger picture of how things should work. This means taking care of topics like architecture, performance, and memory consumption of our agents, as well as finding out the technical and infrastructural limitations we need to address to ensure we can consistently deliver our services.
What makes you excited about being a part of the Dynatrace?
My Dynatrace journey is already quite long, and I’ve experienced lots of organizational changes over the years - but even with more processes and fewer small start-up vibes, one thing has always stayed the same: the feeling that the company cares about its employees and offers lots of benefits and paths for personal development. Team events have always been a blast! At Dynatrace, the value of the knowledge an employee has is respected, and an employee is not just a work resource.
It also feels great having been part of Dynatrace’s journey from an early stage to where we are now.
What makes Dynatrace Community important to you?
In the Community, I can see real-world issues our customers have, and I can try to help them directly with how something should be solved with Dynatrace.
"I can also use customers challenges to help us improve our product with decisions on future development."
For me this is like a morning routine - quickly walking through the Community when I start my working day to see if there are any new mobile topics that pop up.
Tell us something about you that most people don’t know. What is your biggest joy or passion in life?
Outside of my work life, my family is most important to me. I have a wife and two (teenage-ish) daughters, and I really enjoy spending time with them. We love hiking trips and being out in nature - well, at least the kids like it afterwards. It's always a bit of a challenge to motivate them for some fresh air activity. 😄
Personally, I really enjoy sports - especially running and taekwondo. I also practice archery, which has become a bit of a side hustle, as I'm part of a small company that provides archery software for scorekeeping and tournaments.
Well, one of the most important topics on my bucket list is a never-ending one: staying healthy while getting old, so I’m able to enjoy life as long as possible.
And of course on the sporty side, it’s always longer & faster than my current personal best in running and next graduation level in taekwondo.
I’m also pretty interested in languages like Japanese and Korean, but I still have a long way to improve there... and going along with language learning, I would like to have more time for traveling the world.
What achievement are you most proud of?
I'm not sure if you would count a happy family life as an achievement, but that’s something important to me, and something you can’t take for granted as keeping up any great relationship needs investments from everyone.
An achievement I’m really proud of is my 6th Dan grade black belt in taekwondo, as this really needed endurance, a long journey to reach it and a longer time of extra efforts in training to pass the promotion exam - but this journey and the spirit of Asian budo sports also helped me in my personal development, so this was just a milestone in a lifelong development.
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