Georg Puchta

Current

Principal Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Co-Founder at Online Travel Service Start-Up

Past

Sr. Software Engineer at Visa
Software Engineer at D&M Holdings
Software Engineer at ReplayTV

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Georg Puchta’s Summary

- Over 14 years of software development experience in client-server / multi-tier architectural environment.

- Focused on J2EE web development in the last 7 years.

- Start-up environment experience for over 6 years. Worked on one-man projects as well as projects with medium size teams with a preference on small teams.

- Innovative and forward thinking. Team player with can-do attitude, no fluff.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Georg Puchta’s Specialties:

Building web applications from the ground up. Designing and building cool AJAX based web sites.

Georg Puchta’s Experience

Principal Software Engineer

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Working on LinkedIn consumer application with focus on UI layer. Implemented Javascript framework to facilitate Web 2.0 transformation. Designed and implemented various high profile UI components like JavaScript based profile cropping tool. Driving internationalization efforts. Implemented automation tool to drastically improve I18N conversion.
Co-Founder

Online Travel Service Start-Up

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

Visa

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

March 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Build complex procurement analysis tool. One of the few tools that generate revenue for Visa and its member banks. Customers of member banks can now estimate how much money can be saved by switching to Visa card procurement practices.
Software Engineer

D&M Holdings

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

- Designed and developed several server side applications, such as ReplayTV client log search web application with build process integration, ad campaign web application to create and maintain client based image ads and more.

- Designed and developed ReplayTV client based core functionality supporting autocomplete feature when searching for content.
Software Engineer

ReplayTV

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )