Peter Steinberger is a founder and product researcher with 16 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused B2B software, now leading Amantus Machina to pioneer hyper-personal AI agents. He bootstrapped PSPDFKit from a solo engineering project into a remote-first, 60+ person global SDK company and produced a WebAssembly benchmark used by Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. A longtime iOS expert (active since iOS 2.0) and prolific open-source contributor, he has hands-on experience across UI/animation, networking and cross-language tooling (notably contributions to AFNetworking and Dropbox’s djinni). He also co-founded Founders of Europe to enable pre-seed investments, blending technical depth with operator-level startup and investment experience.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Higher School Certificate, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science at HTL Braunau
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences at Technical University Vienna
A progressive download operation for AFNetworking.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to an iOS project focused on AFNetworking, a networking library. Their contributions centered on enhancing the `AFDownloadRequestOperation` class, including fixing bugs, modernizing the codebase, and adding features. The user addressed issues such as resuming downloads, error handling, and code style improvements. The commits indicate a focus on improving the download operation's stability, reliability, and functionality.
open source implementation of Twitter/iPad stacked ui - done right.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:109 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of UI elements and interactions within the `PSStackedView` project. Their commits focused on enhancing view embedding, fixing layout issues in landscape mode, and improving the animation behavior and responsiveness of the stacked view. They also addressed issues related to touch handling and gesture recognizers. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the visual presentation and user experience of the project.
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