Franz Heinfling
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner & Software Engineer at Franz Heinfling
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolFranz Heinfling is a Berlin-based freelance Product Manager, Product Owner and Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience shipping cross-platform mobile products and scaling distributed teams. He combines strategic product thinking with deep technical execution, having led end-to-end deliveries across automotive, health, media and impact-focused NGOs while managing teams of up to 15 engineers. As a serial freelancer and co-founder (bitpurpose, Courcery), he bridges mission-driven organisations and AI-enabled product builds, delivering practical tooling for NGOs and impact companies. His background in native iOS, Flutter and backend integrations is grounded in rapid prototyping and robust CI/CD practices—evident from frequent app releases and 1,200+ merged PRs on major projects. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into shipped features, Franz blends entrepreneurial curiosity (musicology studies among them) with disciplined engineering to consistently move products from concept to market.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung at Staatliche Berufsschule I TraunsteinMusicology and Ethnomusicology, Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenComputer Science, Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinBachelor of Science (B.Sc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Computer Science at Universität Passau
English, German
Github Skills (27)
kotlin10
ios10
messaging10
flutter-plugin10
flutter-apps10
messenger10
mobile-application10
android10
swift10
firebase10
flutter10
mobile9
reactive-programming9
collections9
cross-platform8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
janoodleFTW/timy-messenger
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Timy - open source mobile app for groups to communicate and organize themselves. Built with flutter.
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
fluttermobile-applicationswiftkotlinmessenger
bitpurpose/bitpurpose.github.io
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
bitPurpose website
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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