About Me

Software architect, AI coach and IT consultant. For over 15 years I have been building and modernizing software, most recently with AI agents as part of everyday development.

About Volomatics

Volomatics is the brand of Volomatics Software Solutions Alexander Knapp e.U., a company for software architecture and agentic software engineering founded in 2025 and based in Pressbaum near Vienna, Austria. Founder and owner Alexander Knapp has been building software for more than 15 years: first as a GIS engineer and technical lead for cartography and geoinformation at the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, then as a software architect and team lead on projects for banks, insurers, industry, aviation and public administration.

Volomatics helps companies in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, on site and remote, design sustainable architectures, modernize legacy systems step by step and put AI agents to productive use in software development. In addition, Volomatics offers AI coaching for development teams, IT consulting, talks and workshops.

Who I Am

I'm Alexander Knapp, working independently under Volomatics since 2025. My focus is on software architecture, modernizing legacy systems, geodata processing and Agentic Software Engineering.

Throughout my career I have supported companies in finance, insurance, industry, aviation and the public sector, both technically and organizationally. I combine deep technical knowledge with a pragmatic, agile approach.

As a tech speaker I make complex topics accessible and help teams put AI-powered development to productive use.

Career Stations

Independent Software Architect & AI Coach

Volomatics • since 2025

Consulting, architecture and implementation for companies across industries, with a focus on modernization and AI-powered development. Alongside that, tech talks and workshops on Agentic Software Engineering.

Brand Ambassador & Technical Content Marketing

Objectbay • 2025 – 2026

Technical face of the company at conferences, in webinars and on digital platforms. Expert content on software architecture, modernization and AI-powered development, from talks and articles to workshops for clients and the community.

Senior Customer Solution Manager

Objectbay • 2024 – 2026

Interface between customers, business and engineering: requirements engineering, value stream analysis and technical concepts in pre-sales. Member of the pre-sales and recruiting boards, co-founder of the platform engineering team.

Team Lead & Software Architect

Objectbay • 2021 – 2024

Led a self-organized agile engineering team. Responsible for architecture decisions in client projects for banks, insurers, telecommunications and the public sector. Led the software architecture and code quality circle that evaluates and establishes best practices, design patterns and new technologies across the company.

Senior Fullstack Software Engineer

Objectbay • 2020 – 2021

Enterprise web applications for banks (access rights and licence monitoring, automated business reports, migration from monoliths to microservices), Android apps for mobile driver's licence and identity verification, and a platform for automated penetration tests for a telecommunications provider.

Technical Lead & GIS Engineer

Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (Austria) • 2009 – 2020

Scrum master and technical lead of the development team for a new, fully vector-based cartographic model. Automated digital map production with ArcGIS, ArcPy, Python and FME, designed geodatabases and processed geodata for the Austrian Map mobile app. Austrian representative in the Esri working group Multi Resolution Geospatial Production and in the European production management team for the EuroRegionalMap.

IT Generalist

Retail & Manufacturing Company • 2009

Ran production systems, network and web shop, alongside work in sales.

Software Engineer

Siemens Austria • 2008

Automation software and human machine interfaces (C, C++) for steel rolling mills, including on-site commissioning.

Education

FH Campus Wien (University of Applied Sciences Vienna) • Master in Software Design and Engineering (2023, with distinction) and Bachelor in Computer Science and Digital Communications (2021, with distinction)

University of Vienna • Geography with a focus on cartography and geoinformation

HTL St. Pölten • Electrical engineering with a focus on industrial information technology