Dr. Christoph Steindl is a passionate software developer from Austria with an extensive activity in both academics and business. Since 1995, he has been working as a lecturer (full time for 5 years, thereafter part time) at prestigious universities in Austria (Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Technical University in Vienna, University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg). In 2005, he founded Catalysts, one of the leading IT Companies in Austria, which also entered the Romanian market in 2012 and currently operates an office in Cluj-Napoca. Catalysts develops individual software solutions focusing on 3 key aspects:

• Large-Scale Agile Projects
• High Performance Computing
• Big Data and Machine Learning

Large international customers of Catalysts are (besides others): Porsche / VW, ESA (European Space Agency), DB-Schenker, Raiffeisen, Kapsch, and DOKA. Currently, 140 software developers work at Catalysts who verifiably count to the best 0.5% of all software developers in Europe.