Coach and engineer with 25+ years of experience in software and technology, specialising in test automation, quality assurance and AI-assisted softwar
Aktualisiert am 10.09.2026
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Verfügbar ab: 14.09.2026
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Agile
DevOps
Software-Testing
Scrum
Kanban
SAFe
Agile Coaching
Requirements Engineering
Software Architecture
Quality Assurance
Test Automation
CI/CD
GitLab
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Cloud Computing
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Identity & Access Management (IAM)
REST APIs
BPMN
Python
German
Muttersprache
English
Verhandlungssicher
Dutch
Verhandlungssicher

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

3 months
2026-05 - 2026-07

Training for publicly funded programmes preparing participants

Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement Scrum Kanban Nexus ...
Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement

  • Trainer for publicly funded programmes preparing participants for Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification. 
  • Combined Scrum and product management with applied AI, enabling participants to use current AI tools in software delivery and facilitate AI adoption within teams. 
  • Recurring engagement across multiple programmes.

Scrum Kanban Nexus SAFe PSM I Claude GPT Gemini Nano Banana Pro AI team facilitation video-based remote training
Alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH
Remote
4 months
2026-02 - 2026-05

Introduced Scrum methods and agile feedback loops

Scrum Master / Project Lead Scrum Kanban Jira ...
Scrum Master / Project Lead
  • Introduced Scrum methods and agile feedback loops into a hardware/software environment, running regular retrospectives and establishing sprint goals and planning within a document-driven culture (IBM DOORS) to move towards a more transparent, task-oriented workflow.
  • Consolidated fragmented requirements into a workable backlog and addressed the bottleneck in software testing that was constraining delivery. 
  • Evaluated AI methods and their applicability in a highly regulated defence environment.

Scrum Kanban Jira Confluence Jenkins CI/CD SVN TwinCat PLC automation IBM DOORS regulated AI Microsoft Copilot Llama 4
Anschütz GmbH
Kiel
5 months
2025-06 - 2025-10

merging and restructuring product backlogs

Scrum Master / Agile Coach Kanban Scrum Jira ...
Scrum Master / Agile Coach
  • Supported a team consolidation across three teams (SAP, Logistics, Data), merging and restructuring their product backlogs into a coherent set of priorities. 
  • Validated the new VTG Operating Model in practice and facilitated PI Planning along the customer value stream, providing the organisation with concrete findings on where the model worked and where it needed adjustment.




Kanban Scrum Jira Confluence Gitlab SAP S/4 HANA Java eazyBI Microsoft Teams
VTG GmbH
Hamburg
8 months
2024-09 - 2025-04

New type of solid flow battery for grid storage.

Agile Coach Kanban Scrum Jira ...
Agile Coach
  • Coached a team out of a long-standing standstill into an iterative prototyping mode for a new type of solid flow battery for grid storage. 
  • Implemented a feedback-based iterative prototyping approach aligned at company level, establishing feedback mechanisms, self-organisation and DevOps practices across software and embedded development. 
  • Drove shift-left for testing and DevOps by integrating both into the teams, implementing technical feedback and build loops in a highly regulated hardware environment while reconciling differing developer expectations. 
  • Strengthened collaboration between the embedded and software teams and the chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering teams, restructured teams around Scrum and Kanban, introduced Jira and aligned the teams with company-wide OKR goal setting. 
  • Coached the Product Owner level on AI practices and AI-assisted delivery. 
  • Successfully enabled an iterative, OKR-based development process across the organisation.
Kanban Scrum Jira Confluence GitLab CI/CD RobotFramework C++ embedded & hardware development Grafana AI-assisted PO MCP GitLab Duo Gemini OKR
CMBlu Energy AG
Alzenau
5 months
2024-04 - 2024-08

Trainer for publicly funded programmes preparing participants

Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement Scrum Kanban Nexus ...
Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement
  • Trainer for publicly funded programmes preparing participants for Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification. 
  • Combined Scrum and product management with applied AI, enabling participants to use current AI tools in software delivery and facilitate AI adoption within teams. 
  • Recurring engagement across multiple programmes.
Scrum Kanban Nexus SAFe PSM I Claude GPT Gemini Nano Banana Pro AI team facilitation video-based remote training
Alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH
Remote
4 months
2024-01 - 2024-04

Large-scale cloud transformation programme

Agile & DevOps Coach Scrum Kanban flow visualisation ...
Agile & DevOps Coach
  • Established working prioritisation and feedback mechanisms across two DevOps teams, IAM and Kubernetes, within a large-scale cloud transformation programme for a critical energy infrastructure operator. 
  • Set up prioritisation and review routines within a Kanban-based agile approach and embedded feedback loops through programme-wide retrospectives and team-level reviews. 
  • Introduced a Scrum-based process in the IAM team and a Kanban approach with visualised flow in the Kubernetes team and collaborated on delivery and testing strategies.
Scrum Kanban flow visualisation Jira Kubernetes Keycloak/IAM Google Cloud cloud networking Postman Scaled Agile hybrid teams
50Hertz Energy
Berlin
1 year 1 month
2022-12 - 2023-12

Successful establishment of a globally distributed agile team

Agile Coach Scrum Kanban Jira ...
Agile Coach

  • Successful establishment of a globally distributed agile team and practices through a Scrum-based working model for the multi-timezone team.
  • Improved release frequency from months to several times per week and increased quality and testing maturity. 
  • Coached team, Scrum Master and Product Owner, with later upscaling to multiple teams.
  • Established the Product Owner in her new role and supported product ownership with roadmaps, story writing and OKR/metric-based decision making. 
  • Established early AI practices at team and product level, introducing GPT-based and transcription tooling into everyday delivery work.


Scrum Kanban Jira GitHub Actions CI/CD Cypress Playwright PHP Laravel GPT/AI tooling Discord Google Meet cross-timezone collaboration
Solar Insurance - Insurance Tech Startup
Los Angeles, US (remote)
6 months
2022-04 - 2022-09

Stakeholder management

DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach

  • Coached the DevOps team through stakeholder management under high delivery load, including outsourcing Jira administration and preparing PI Planning within the SAFe Agile Release Train. 
  • Validated a developer platform through proof-of-concept work, alongside Kubernetes administration and vendor management.

Swisscard AECS
4 months
2021-11 - 2022-02

Built and introduced automated testing practices

QA Engineer
QA Engineer
Built and introduced automated testing practices within a high-security public-sector environment, aligning test coverage with strict compliance and access-control requirements.
Maurer Electronics
4 months
2021-07 - 2021-10

SAFe-based development of a new AI/ML platform

Agile Coach Scrum Kanban SAFe ...
Agile Coach
  • Coached technical collaboration in medical research using AWS AI technology as part of the SAFe-based development of a new AI/ML platform. 
  • Facilitated the working relationship between the Amazon Web Services engineering team and pharmaceutical specialists, bridging two very different cultures and moving mixed teams of researchers, data scientists and cloud engineers towards solution-oriented delivery within a SAFe environment.

Scrum Kanban SAFe AWS (SageMaker S3 EC2) Jupyter Notebooks ML/AI platforms DevOps Bamboo
Boehringer Ingelheim
Ingelheim

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2006

Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung (Application Developer, Craftsman Certificate ? Dual System)

Orangemedia.de GmbH & Handelskammer Hamburg


Certifications

  • Product Owner AI Essentials ? PSPO-AI
  • Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900
  • Professional Scrum Master ? PSM I & PSM II
  • SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer
  • Professional Agile Leadership ? PAL I
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I ? PSPO I
  • Professional Scrum Developer I ? PSD I
  • Certified Scrum Professional ? ScrumMaster
  • ISTQB ? Certified Tester Foundation Level
  • QAMP ? Quality Assurance Management Professional
  • CPRE ? Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering, Foundation Level
  • Projektleiter IHK / Certified Project Leader
  • iSAQB ? Certified Professional for Software Architecture (incl. arc42)

Position

Position

Technical Delivery Expert

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Agile DevOps Software-Testing Scrum Kanban SAFe Agile Coaching Requirements Engineering Software Architecture Quality Assurance Test Automation CI/CD GitLab Git Docker Kubernetes AWS Cloud Computing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Identity & Access Management (IAM) REST APIs BPMN Python

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

Coach and engineer with 25+ years of experience in software and technology, specialising in test automation, quality assurance and AI-assisted software development. Combines hands-on technical depth with strong coaching and facilitation skills to embed engineering excellence sustainably within teams, rather than just introducing it. Proven track record in highly regulated industries such as pharma, finance, energy, defence and the public sector. Experienced working across international, cross-cultural teams and project environments ? grounded in both Dutch and German work culture. International conference speaker with project experience in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the UK, as well as with distributed remote teams.


Core Competencies

Quality Engineering

  • Test automation: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Postman
  • BDD/ATDD/Specification by Example: SpecFlow, Behat, Gherkin
  • Quality management and test strategy across multiple teams


DevOps

  • CI/CD and build pipelines: GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Cloud and container platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS
  • Infrastructure automation and cloud-native delivery practices


Agile Delivery

  • Scrum, Kanban and SAFe facilitation
  • Cross-team coordination and stakeholder alignment
  • Regulated and mission-critical environments: BaFin, pharma, energy, defence
  • Facilitating international, cross-cultural teams


AI Enablement

  • AI-assisted software development and delivery
  • QA for AI systems: evals, metamorphic testing, RAG and LLM feature testing
  • AI tool facilitation for teams and Product Owners

Branchen

Branchen

  • including finance
  • pharma
  • energy
  • defence
  • automotive
  • mechanical engineering
  • logistics
  • public sector
  • e-commerce and deep-tech product development

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

3 months
2026-05 - 2026-07

Training for publicly funded programmes preparing participants

Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement Scrum Kanban Nexus ...
Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement

  • Trainer for publicly funded programmes preparing participants for Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification. 
  • Combined Scrum and product management with applied AI, enabling participants to use current AI tools in software delivery and facilitate AI adoption within teams. 
  • Recurring engagement across multiple programmes.

Scrum Kanban Nexus SAFe PSM I Claude GPT Gemini Nano Banana Pro AI team facilitation video-based remote training
Alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH
Remote
4 months
2026-02 - 2026-05

Introduced Scrum methods and agile feedback loops

Scrum Master / Project Lead Scrum Kanban Jira ...
Scrum Master / Project Lead
  • Introduced Scrum methods and agile feedback loops into a hardware/software environment, running regular retrospectives and establishing sprint goals and planning within a document-driven culture (IBM DOORS) to move towards a more transparent, task-oriented workflow.
  • Consolidated fragmented requirements into a workable backlog and addressed the bottleneck in software testing that was constraining delivery. 
  • Evaluated AI methods and their applicability in a highly regulated defence environment.

Scrum Kanban Jira Confluence Jenkins CI/CD SVN TwinCat PLC automation IBM DOORS regulated AI Microsoft Copilot Llama 4
Anschütz GmbH
Kiel
5 months
2025-06 - 2025-10

merging and restructuring product backlogs

Scrum Master / Agile Coach Kanban Scrum Jira ...
Scrum Master / Agile Coach
  • Supported a team consolidation across three teams (SAP, Logistics, Data), merging and restructuring their product backlogs into a coherent set of priorities. 
  • Validated the new VTG Operating Model in practice and facilitated PI Planning along the customer value stream, providing the organisation with concrete findings on where the model worked and where it needed adjustment.




Kanban Scrum Jira Confluence Gitlab SAP S/4 HANA Java eazyBI Microsoft Teams
VTG GmbH
Hamburg
8 months
2024-09 - 2025-04

New type of solid flow battery for grid storage.

Agile Coach Kanban Scrum Jira ...
Agile Coach
  • Coached a team out of a long-standing standstill into an iterative prototyping mode for a new type of solid flow battery for grid storage. 
  • Implemented a feedback-based iterative prototyping approach aligned at company level, establishing feedback mechanisms, self-organisation and DevOps practices across software and embedded development. 
  • Drove shift-left for testing and DevOps by integrating both into the teams, implementing technical feedback and build loops in a highly regulated hardware environment while reconciling differing developer expectations. 
  • Strengthened collaboration between the embedded and software teams and the chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering teams, restructured teams around Scrum and Kanban, introduced Jira and aligned the teams with company-wide OKR goal setting. 
  • Coached the Product Owner level on AI practices and AI-assisted delivery. 
  • Successfully enabled an iterative, OKR-based development process across the organisation.
Kanban Scrum Jira Confluence GitLab CI/CD RobotFramework C++ embedded & hardware development Grafana AI-assisted PO MCP GitLab Duo Gemini OKR
CMBlu Energy AG
Alzenau
5 months
2024-04 - 2024-08

Trainer for publicly funded programmes preparing participants

Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement Scrum Kanban Nexus ...
Scrum Trainer / AI Enablement
  • Trainer for publicly funded programmes preparing participants for Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) certification. 
  • Combined Scrum and product management with applied AI, enabling participants to use current AI tools in software delivery and facilitate AI adoption within teams. 
  • Recurring engagement across multiple programmes.
Scrum Kanban Nexus SAFe PSM I Claude GPT Gemini Nano Banana Pro AI team facilitation video-based remote training
Alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH
Remote
4 months
2024-01 - 2024-04

Large-scale cloud transformation programme

Agile & DevOps Coach Scrum Kanban flow visualisation ...
Agile & DevOps Coach
  • Established working prioritisation and feedback mechanisms across two DevOps teams, IAM and Kubernetes, within a large-scale cloud transformation programme for a critical energy infrastructure operator. 
  • Set up prioritisation and review routines within a Kanban-based agile approach and embedded feedback loops through programme-wide retrospectives and team-level reviews. 
  • Introduced a Scrum-based process in the IAM team and a Kanban approach with visualised flow in the Kubernetes team and collaborated on delivery and testing strategies.
Scrum Kanban flow visualisation Jira Kubernetes Keycloak/IAM Google Cloud cloud networking Postman Scaled Agile hybrid teams
50Hertz Energy
Berlin
1 year 1 month
2022-12 - 2023-12

Successful establishment of a globally distributed agile team

Agile Coach Scrum Kanban Jira ...
Agile Coach

  • Successful establishment of a globally distributed agile team and practices through a Scrum-based working model for the multi-timezone team.
  • Improved release frequency from months to several times per week and increased quality and testing maturity. 
  • Coached team, Scrum Master and Product Owner, with later upscaling to multiple teams.
  • Established the Product Owner in her new role and supported product ownership with roadmaps, story writing and OKR/metric-based decision making. 
  • Established early AI practices at team and product level, introducing GPT-based and transcription tooling into everyday delivery work.


Scrum Kanban Jira GitHub Actions CI/CD Cypress Playwright PHP Laravel GPT/AI tooling Discord Google Meet cross-timezone collaboration
Solar Insurance - Insurance Tech Startup
Los Angeles, US (remote)
6 months
2022-04 - 2022-09

Stakeholder management

DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach

  • Coached the DevOps team through stakeholder management under high delivery load, including outsourcing Jira administration and preparing PI Planning within the SAFe Agile Release Train. 
  • Validated a developer platform through proof-of-concept work, alongside Kubernetes administration and vendor management.

Swisscard AECS
4 months
2021-11 - 2022-02

Built and introduced automated testing practices

QA Engineer
QA Engineer
Built and introduced automated testing practices within a high-security public-sector environment, aligning test coverage with strict compliance and access-control requirements.
Maurer Electronics
4 months
2021-07 - 2021-10

SAFe-based development of a new AI/ML platform

Agile Coach Scrum Kanban SAFe ...
Agile Coach
  • Coached technical collaboration in medical research using AWS AI technology as part of the SAFe-based development of a new AI/ML platform. 
  • Facilitated the working relationship between the Amazon Web Services engineering team and pharmaceutical specialists, bridging two very different cultures and moving mixed teams of researchers, data scientists and cloud engineers towards solution-oriented delivery within a SAFe environment.

Scrum Kanban SAFe AWS (SageMaker S3 EC2) Jupyter Notebooks ML/AI platforms DevOps Bamboo
Boehringer Ingelheim
Ingelheim

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2006

Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung (Application Developer, Craftsman Certificate ? Dual System)

Orangemedia.de GmbH & Handelskammer Hamburg


Certifications

  • Product Owner AI Essentials ? PSPO-AI
  • Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900
  • Professional Scrum Master ? PSM I & PSM II
  • SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer
  • Professional Agile Leadership ? PAL I
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I ? PSPO I
  • Professional Scrum Developer I ? PSD I
  • Certified Scrum Professional ? ScrumMaster
  • ISTQB ? Certified Tester Foundation Level
  • QAMP ? Quality Assurance Management Professional
  • CPRE ? Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering, Foundation Level
  • Projektleiter IHK / Certified Project Leader
  • iSAQB ? Certified Professional for Software Architecture (incl. arc42)

Position

Position

Technical Delivery Expert

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Agile DevOps Software-Testing Scrum Kanban SAFe Agile Coaching Requirements Engineering Software Architecture Quality Assurance Test Automation CI/CD GitLab Git Docker Kubernetes AWS Cloud Computing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Identity & Access Management (IAM) REST APIs BPMN Python

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile

Coach and engineer with 25+ years of experience in software and technology, specialising in test automation, quality assurance and AI-assisted software development. Combines hands-on technical depth with strong coaching and facilitation skills to embed engineering excellence sustainably within teams, rather than just introducing it. Proven track record in highly regulated industries such as pharma, finance, energy, defence and the public sector. Experienced working across international, cross-cultural teams and project environments ? grounded in both Dutch and German work culture. International conference speaker with project experience in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the UK, as well as with distributed remote teams.


Core Competencies

Quality Engineering

  • Test automation: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Postman
  • BDD/ATDD/Specification by Example: SpecFlow, Behat, Gherkin
  • Quality management and test strategy across multiple teams


DevOps

  • CI/CD and build pipelines: GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Cloud and container platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS
  • Infrastructure automation and cloud-native delivery practices


Agile Delivery

  • Scrum, Kanban and SAFe facilitation
  • Cross-team coordination and stakeholder alignment
  • Regulated and mission-critical environments: BaFin, pharma, energy, defence
  • Facilitating international, cross-cultural teams


AI Enablement

  • AI-assisted software development and delivery
  • QA for AI systems: evals, metamorphic testing, RAG and LLM feature testing
  • AI tool facilitation for teams and Product Owners

Branchen

Branchen

  • including finance
  • pharma
  • energy
  • defence
  • automotive
  • mechanical engineering
  • logistics
  • public sector
  • e-commerce and deep-tech product development

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