WOLFRAM HEMPEL

Hey, I’m Wolfram,

I’ve built some amazing stuff over the years. Open Source software powering some of the biggest Web Apps, SaaS loved by thousands of users and companies acquired by Fortune 500 firms.

I’ve worked everywhere from finance to gaming, geotracking to cloud and PaaS to potash mining, but my specialties are complex web apps, web graphics and cloud architectures.

SOME COMPANIES I RAN

Hivekit (Still going)

A geospatial API and Operations platform.
> Website
Arcentry (Acquired 2020)

A cloud architecture diagramming tool.
> Website
The Merchant (Acquired 2017)

A browser based trading app for retail brokerages.

SOME OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS I'VE BUILT

deepstream.io (7100 Github Stars)

A realtime datasync server
> Website
Golden Layout (6100 Github Stars)

A browser based layout manager
> Website
photobooth.js (570 Github Stars)

A Webcam plugin, made in 2010
> Website

SOME PLACES I'VE WORKED

VP of Trading Tech (JP Morgan London)

Responsible for Order Routing and Execution Strategies
Technical Lead (Caplin)

Building Trading Frontends and Price streaming architectures
UI Architect (Crytek)

Building User Experiences for Gaming

SOME TALKS I GAVE

Microservices with deepstream.io

at Berlin FullstackJS
Reactive Realtime for Fun and Profit

Codemotion Warsaw and Berlin as well as Codetalks Hamburg
PostgreSQL Realtime Queries at Scale

at PGDay.Italy, Milan

SOME ARTICLES I WROTE

Why I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one.
> Article > HN Discussion
An introduction to medieval cities and cloud security
> Article > HN Discussion
What I’ve learned building a browser app in WebGL
> Article

SOME COMPANIES I RAN

Hivekit (Still going)

Arcentry (Acquired 2020)

The Merchant (Acquired 2017)

SOME OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS I'VE BUILT

deepstream.io (7100 Github Stars)

Golden Layout (6100 Github Stars)

photobooth.js (570 Github Stars)

SOME PLACES I'VE WORKED

VP of Trading Tech (JP Morgan London)

Technical Lead (Caplin)

UI Architect (Crytek)

SOME TALKS I GAVE

Microservices with deepstream.io

Reactive Realtime for Fun and Profit

PostgreSQL Realtime Queries at Scale

SOME ARTICLES I WROTE

Why I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one.

An introduction to medieval cities and cloud security

What I’ve learned building a browser app in WebGL