Johannes Nagl

Bootstrapping as product & tech enthusiast for over a decade.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in scaling SaaS tools, working with various Social Network APIs (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube), PHP and React.js. Hands on Product Owner with a focus on agile roadmap planning. Strong information technology professional with a Master's Degree focused in Multimedia and Software Engineering from Fachhochschule Technikum Wien. Loves empowering team mates.

Work

Swat.io

Swat.io is proud to be an independent and bootstrapped product-led tech company in the Software-as-a-service industry with more than a decade of experience in the Social Media space.
Project Manager / CTO / CEO / CEO Product
– Present
Vienna, Austria

Started as a Project Manager/Web Developer and implemented lot of marketing campaigns (30+) with the Facebook Graph API. After getting CTO of the company I've exlusively concentrated on Swat.io, a social media management tool. Right now, I'm leading the company as CEO Product.

  • 2024: Got the possibility to buy 2.5% company shares.

  • 2023: Joined the newly created Management Board as CEO Product, focused on Product/Dev

  • 2022: Took over the full responsibility as CEO; responsible for all teams

  • 2021: Joined the founder as second CEO; next to leading the dev team, responsible for Product/Support/Marketing/People & Culture/Finance teams

  • 2019: Joined the newly created Management Board; Officially named Head of Product next to being CTO

  • 2015-2017: Building/managing dedicated frontend/backend teams

  • 2014: Focusing exlusively on Swat.io; starting to refactor the app/development workflows

  • 2012: Officially named CTO. Maintainer of company-internal Facebook Marketing App Framework

  • 2011: Joined company as 2nd employee.

Büro DIE ANTWORT GmbH

Techstuff: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript and more.
Web Developer, Shareholder
Vienna, Austria

Worked on 70+ different web sites and web applications. Learned all the small details and improved a lot as developer. Hold 20% of company shares.

  • PHP, Ruby on Rails

  • MySQL

  • Prototype.js, script.aculo.us, jQuery

  • SVN

Hagenberg Software GmbH

Microsoft Technology Experts
Developer, SharePoint Consultant
Vienna, Austria

Worked as Software Developer for Customer Facing projects. I also contributed in internal SharePoint projects and worked on commercial SharePoint plugins.

  • C#, .net 2.0

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2008

pmOne GmbH

People minded. Data driven. AI based.
(Junior) Consultant
Vienna, Austria

Started as an intern, creating a dataware house proof of concept generator on my own. Was working on some customer facing projects until I got named IT System Administrator. In this role I was responsible for all laptops/mobile phones as well as creating/migrating a new Active Directory Setup for the whole company together with our outsourcing partner ACP.

  • C#, .net 2.0

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Analysis Services, Reporting Services)

  • Windows Server 2003

  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM

siteworx.at / Johannes Nagl e.U.

Learning to code in real life
Being on my own as a freelancer
Vienna, Austria

Started learning HTML/CSS/JS on my own in 2000. After doing some pet projects, dozens of unfinished side projects, I started in late 2004 with client jobs. I implemented couple of websites for Hotels, Car Traders and Management Companies in Vienna.

  • ASP, ASP.net MVC, PHP

  • Microsoft SQL Server Express, MySQL

Volunteer

Education

HAK Tulln

Business

High School

Awards

Becoming a father 👨‍👧

Awarded by Verena

#proudDadOfAGirl. You're amazing, Laura!

11th place

Awarded by 44° Congresso Intersteno

World-Championship in Fast-Typing (Online Tournament)

Publications

How to Get the Most Out of Remote Onboarding

Published by Meet with Spot

Discussed with Allison from Meet with Spot how to successfully onboard new team members in a remote era. Thanks for having me, Allison, it was a great virtual walk together!

Embracing cloud technologies

Published by Confare `CIO Summit`

Gave a talk in front of 40 people as part of the Confare CIO Summit together with Marco Tesch from tecRacer. Thanks for having me, Confare!

Replacing REST with GraphQL

Published by Confare `CIO Summit`

Talked at local Laravel Vienna Meetup about GraphQL and how it can replace traditional REST APIs.

Der Pfad zum digitalen Produkt (German)

Published by Umma Hüsla Hackathon

Gave a speech in front of 50 people as part of the Vorarlberg Umma Hüsla-Hackathon about how to evolve from a software agency to a product company. Thanks for having me, Digitale Initativen!

Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit in Social Communities (German)

Published by FH Technikum Wien

This master thesis deals with privacy and data protection issues arising in social communities in the internet. Together with the usage of social websites, the amount of stored information rises tremendously, which leads to an intensification of privacy-related problems.

Konvergenzen zwischen Web2.0 und Semantic Web am Beispiel einer Tourismusplattform (German)

Published by FH Technikum Wien

This Bachelor thesis describes the theoretical principles of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. These technologies are definite improvements to World Wide Web in his current form. A convergence application, which is the combination of both technologies, shows the methodology of creating a semantic net. The net is automatically extended with third party data. The comparison of so called Mashup Creator Applications like Yahoo Pipes or Microsoft Popfly shows the benefits of programs for standardized data aggregation. Finally, an analysis as well as an economic inspection of selected tourist platforms shows the strengths and weakness of convergence applications in contrast to conventional web offerings.

Auswirkungen von Web2.0 auf das World Wide Web (German)

Published by FH Technikum Wien

This bachelor thesis describes the new buzzword “Web 2.0” and its impact on the World Wide Web. The term was first mentioned on a congress in the year 2004, where Tim O’Reilly described some design patterns, which would revolutionize the Web and its users. Based on these patterns the author analyses the consequences of social participation. The democratization of the internet could change the current media landscape dramatically. But the possibility to issue texts more easily can also have a negative impact on the quality of content.

Skills

Leadership

  • Leading different teams
  • Working with ext. Partners
  • Giving Talks
  • Strategic roadmap planing

Product

  • Embracing constant change
  • Strategic/Operational Roadmap planing
  • Supporting customers

Tech

  • Scaling/Refactoring of large web apps
  • Designing and tuning databases/queries
  • Embracing Quality/Code Guidelines
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Typescript
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS

Languages

English

Fluent

German

Native speaker

French

Still getting nightmares every 6 months; learned it in school, never used it afterwards. Still, thanks for teaching me so many life lessons, Ms S!

Interests

Sports

  • Running
  • Cycling

Learning new things

  • Staying open minded

Reading a good book

  • Ægisdóttir
  • Strobel
  • von Schirach