Hi, I'm Lisi, an Austrian staff frontend engineer with a soft spot for sturdy software systems and calm, boring reliability (the best kind).

I’ve spent the last 10+ years building and shaping frontend platforms from a few different angles: writing code, designing architecture, mentoring engineers, hiring engineers and occasionally trying to make complicated systems a little easier to understand.

Right now I work at Pleo on the web core platform, helping to shape the frontend platform for their large fintech application. Before that I spent four years at Storyblok, joining when the company was still small and staying through the fast-growth years as it scaled to a few hundred people. Along the way I led different teams of frontend engineers and worked on evolving the frontend architecture as the product grew up.

Earlier in my career I also taught web and software development, human-computer interaction, and frontend design in bachelor and master programs, which is probably why I default to mentoring, naming the fuzzy parts, and bringing clarity.

When I’m away from the screen, I’m still making things — woodworking, painting, interior design, or any other excuse to make things with my hands.

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Education

I studied computer science with a focus on media technology, which meant spending equal time thinking about software systems and the interfaces people interact with.

Master of Science (M.Sc), MultiMediaTechnology
A media informatics program centered around building large-scale web applications using modern engineering practices like testing, continuous delivery, and scalable architecture. My master’s thesis explored how web animations can improve mobile user experiences in Progressive Web Apps.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Media Technology and Design
A mix of media design and programming — from film, animation, and graphic design to web development, software engineering, and object-oriented programming.