Kristian Houdek
Software Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Vienna, Austria
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Trustpilot
Sep 2022 - Present
4 years 2 months
Copenhagen, Denmark
Software Engineer II
Oct 2025 - Present
1 year 1 month
Copenhagen, Denmark
– Leads architectural strategy and enterprise change management. – Standardize engineering workflows company-wide to improve deployment velocity. – Architecting high-throughput event-driven data systems for global-scale requirements.
Software Engineer I
Sep 2022 - Oct 2025
3 years 2 months
Copenhagen, Denmark
– Focused on full-stack development and serverless integration. – Designed robust API layers and cloud-native workflows that reduced operational overhead. – Built responsive UI features in React.
Trustpilot
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
2 years 8 months
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jr. Software Engineer
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
1 year 10 months
Copenhagen, Denmark
– Managed business system integrations and utilized DAGs to automate complex backend processes.
Jr. Data Analyst & Student Assistant
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
1 year 11 months
Copenhagen, Denmark
– Engineered scalable data pipelines in GCP and supported migration from legacy hardware to cloud services.
Education
High School (International Exchange / Slovakia)
High School Diploma, Math and Informatics
– International Exchange (USA) with AP Calculus/Computer Science and General Qualification (Slovakia).
University of Vienna
MSc, Scientific Computing
2024 - 2026
1 year 5 months
– Specializing in Serverless Architectures and Cloud-Native AI Workflows. – Research: Developing a framework for Serverless LLM Training using Branch-Train-Merge (BTM) to increase training elasticity and reduce compute overhead.
KEA (Copenhagen School of Design and Technology)
BSc, Business and IT
2018 - 2022
4 years 1 month
– Focused on bridging technical infrastructure with business value. – Key projects involved system scalability for ChaseRace and integrated solutions for Coders Trust.