Martin Poschenrieder

Building something new

2024 - Current

Investor / Limited Partner

2021

Firsthand Alliance invests in the future of B2B.

Venture Partner

2020

A fund of 400+ Y Combinator alumni investing in and supporting top startups from Y Combinator

Head of Test Infrastructure

2021 - 2023

- Built one of the world’s largest infrastructure clouds with over 11k mobile devices. - Achieved cost savings of over 10x compared to commercial offerings. - Responsible for a $15M yearly budget. - Led the roadmap and strategy for Snap’s datacenter for automated testing. - Grew datacenter scope and ownership to include iOS builds, Snap AR and Spectacles use cases. - Led a total engineering team of 15. Hired and managed a diverse team of software- and system engineers, datacenter technicians and technical project managers. - Part of the Quality Engineering Leadership council.

Engineering Manager

2019 - 2021

- Grew datacenter test capacity by over 100% which was the enabler to unlock weekly release cycles for iOS and Android. - Spearheaded the idea, strategy and implementation to leverage virtual iOS simulator and Android emulator testing which has achieved cost savings of over $2M per year. - Led critical projects to increase the speed of test executions by 50% and increase infrastructure reliability by 200%.

Technical Program Manager

2016 - 2019

- Lead TPM for Snap's QA and test automation strategy. - Leading programs that resulted in an exponential growth and adoption of automated tests (+800% in 12 months). - Leading various product decisions to establish a new suite of developer tools. - Leading a program to drive down android crash rate from 4% to <0.2% in 4 months. - Working closely with engineering leaders from several feature teams. - Founding member of several new critical Snap developer tools (Automated Mobile Testing Platform, Backend Testing Platform, Load Testing).

CEO & Founder

2012 - 2016

Course Instructor Mobile App Testing

2015 - 2015

Taught a class of 30 students in several sessions about mobile app testing and specifically on mobile test automation using the calabash automation framework.

Guest Lecturer

2014 - 2015

Guest lecturer about Mobile App Testing on course: Computer Science - COEN 168/268 - Mobile App Development (Android)

CEO and Co-Founder

2011 - 2012

Served as CEO and Co-founder of both the Tipgain and HiMom social sharing apps and led a team of several software engineers. The Tipgain project began while I studied for my Master’s degree in London. Having achieved a modicum of success with the app, signing up a few well-known restaurant chains, we moved to Silicon Valley. HiMom was a postcard app used to send both digital and physical postcards to friends and family. This was a whirlwind project, using rapid, heavy development to go from idea to launch in less than 6 weeks.

President

2010 - 2011

UCL Enterprise is a society dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship amongst the research community at UCL, London's Global University. Led a total committee of 16 people.

Software System Integration - Analyst

2009 - 2010

Large scale system integration projects in telecom, retail, automobile and banking. Involved in several project phases from business processes, architecture, feature implementation, test and production support. Experience with IT Offshoring.