# Thorsten Kuehnemund > Founding Engineer - Woz Location: Scotts Valley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/thorsten Software Architect with outstanding software engineering skills and experience in product development. Key contributor in high profile consumer products such as Plause.com, Yahoo Live and Yahoo Screen, Evntlive.com, NOOK Color and other products. Full stack architecture and development in client and server code as well as UX and UI. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Woz (YC W25) Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Engineering Manager @ Vitally.io Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States ### Director Of Engineering - Frontend and Backend @ Koko Home Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Software Architect @ Koko Home Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Head Of Engineering @ Plause Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California, United States Led the Engineering efforts of Plause Software products ### Software Architect @ Plause Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA - Engineering lead for Web products, which entails the web app, manager dashboard, and the marketing site. Working in close collaboration with design and product to achieve fast product iterations. - Managing the web team, providing mentorship and training to junior developers to enable them building production grade quality products under tight deadlines. - Built complex web app including server/client-side rendering of features such as the feed, work story editor, and data insights. Leveraging Node.js/React/Redux using JS ES7 (ES2016) - Build comprehensive email and push notification architecture including processing email replies to create new content and delivery notifications for delivery and spam control. - Implemented the BE infrastructure to power the leadership dashboards allowing to traverse the relational graph table using recursive CTE SQL. This allows us to traverse the org structure from any given node and join it with additional data. - Implemented major features for the iOS app such as onboarding and auth flow, personal insights dashboard, and notification settings. The Plause iOS app is available in Apple’s app store. - Extensively used Redux in web and iOS. Implemented the unified data flow across both applications. - Skills used: JavaScript, Node.js/React/Redux, Swift 2 + Redux , Java 8, PostgreSQL and AWS SES, SNS, and SQS, docker See examples SaveCancelRemove this position ### Principal Software Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale - Engineering Lead for Yahoo video player on web, which is used on all Yahoo web products by hundreds of millions of users. Managed and led the team to drive architecture, feature development, and provided technical mentorship. Also managed the interaction with design, product, and other teams at Yahoo to define, plan and prioritize feature requests and support. - Implemented major features for the video players such as video playlists, sticky player, and mobile HTML5 integration. - Engineering Lead for Yahoo Screen and Yahoo Live to support large-scale live events and exclusive TV content for millions of customers on the web. Led the team of 12 engineers on a technical and process level across two different geographic locations. Worked in close collaboration with design, product and upper management to translate product requirements into actual products. - Solely developed initial version of Yahoo Live web application and integrated it into Yahoo’s infrastructure to support large-scale Tier 1 artists. - Skills used: JavaScript, Node.js/React.js/Fluxible, YUI, HTML5-Video, Flash, HLS ### Software Architect @ EVNTLIVE (Acquired by Yahoo) Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | United States, Redwood City,CA At EVNTLIVE, I am responsible for the HTML5 web app on www.evntlive.com. I am using state of the art html5 front end frameworks and technologies. Additionally I am tightly integrated as a key contributor to the UI/UX process and the feature specification process with the product team. ### Software Architect @ Barnes & Noble Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto In the second phase at Barnes and Noble, I had a lead role in the architecture of the new catalog system for the NOOK platform. This included the design and implementation of the system as well as gathering the requirements and negotiating the interfaces with more than 10 teams in Barnes and Noble. ### Senior Software Developer @ Barnes & Noble Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto, CA I was part of the original NOOK Color 1.0 launch team and was responsible for the architecture and implementation of server components and apis for all social and sharing related features. This included the development of the NOOK Friends platform, which allows NOOK users to share books with each other, lend books to other users or rate and share available content with social networks. All the features were designed and implemented to function in high concurrency environments with several thousand requests per second. As part of the full-stack development team for the social features we defined the features with one person from each stack (Cloud, client, UI/UX, Product). ### Software Egineer @ Spacemachine Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Sunnyvale, CA Driven design and implementation for PocketMap X, an interactive 3D iOS application that lets you fly or drive through the Bay Area, Las Vegas or Chicago and discover geo referenced Tweets or Facebook posts. Responsible for iOS development as well as J2EE backend API's to deliver social network content. Implementation of various features for Windows CE based GPS navigation units for worldwide markets. Integration of local search and internet access into car GPS navigation systems. Design and implementation of J2EE/JSP web portal for GPS system customization. ### Software Engineer - intern @ BOSCH Research and Technolgy Center Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Palo Alto, CA Research and prototype of Yahoo! local search into car GPS navigation systems. At the time car navigation systems did not have internet connection. Completed Master Thesis 'Service Aware Prefetching Strategies for Internet Based Car Navigation Systems' which explores caching strategies to guarantee constant data access while driving. ### Software Engineer - Intern @ Robert Bosch GmbH, Abstatt, Germany Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Abstatt, Germany Software development of test automation tools for ABS/ESP ECU's that assist car drivers in braking. ### Software Engineer - intern @ Robert Bosch Corp., Yokohama, Japan Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | Yokohoma, Japan Software development of test automation tools for ABS/ESP ECU's that assist car drivers in braking. Transferred knowledge and implementation of test suite that was developed in Germany to Japanese business unit. ### Software Engineer - intern @ Robert Bosch GmbH, Abstatt, Germany Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Software development of test automation tools for ABS/ESP ECU's that assist car drivers in braking. Part of the development team for an automated test suite that I later transferred to japanese business unit. ### Self-employed, Software Engineer @ i-Build Gbr, Sersheim, Germany Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 Software development contractor for various software projects and web technologies. ### Software Engineer - intern @ Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen, Germany Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 Software development for automotive industry ## Education ### Diplom-informatiker (equivalent to M.S. in Computer Science) in Computer Software Engineering Hochschule Heilbronn - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Informatik ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thorstenkuehnemund --- Source: https://flows.cv/thorsten JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thorsten/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05