AWS (Focus: Solution Architecture, Cost Optimization, Better Scalability, Security Improvements)

Terraform

Cloudformation

Gitlab and Azure DevOps Pipelines

PHP Optimization (i.e. FPM parameter tweaking and by introducing Nginx Unity)

AMI builds with Packer and custom Gitlab runner docker image

Coding the customer platform backend in Python with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, etc.

• Later transferred it to .NET 5, Amazon ECS, Cloudflare

Automating all infrastructure with CDK

Coding the customer platform frontend in Vue.js with Material Design for Bootstrap (MDB)

Setting up the website in Wordpress with Elementor on top of ECS and EFS

Building deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps

Closed company because of no customers

Leading 6 teams with 60 people from multiple countries (India, Turkey, Spain, Germany)

Main topic: The Cloud (AWS, Vodafone, Yandex), including

• Finance

• Strategy

• Operations

• Security

• Monitoring

• Deployments

Budget responsible for all cloud topics, like

• Cloud Infrastructure

• External suppliers, experts, advisors, coaches and services

• Team Events

Feedback and Failure Culture

Driving topics like

• Continuous learning

• Cost Optimization

• Automation with Terraform

• Customer-Centricity

• Security Baseline

• A clear vision with Roadmaps that fit to the companies overall strategy

• Driver in the reorganization of the Global IT

• PI Planning (Scaled Agile Framework)

Mission to build up a data science team to re-invent the customer facing search engine

Direct report to the CTO and the CEO

Big data analytics to get insights from the search history

Building an insights service to gain additional information on search terms

Tech/Product Lead of an IIOT platform project

One of two Tech Leads to build the Digital Services Platform

Security audits for

• the Azure Kubernetes based service platform

• an IIOT appliance

Onboarding of new remote service development teams

The company today

• >100 Full-time Employees

• Technology Fast 50 Award 2018/19/20/21, by Deloitte (50 fastest growing tech companies in Germany)

• Top 1000 fastest growing companies in Europe, by Financial Times

My role

• CTO and Office Lead in Karlsruhe

• Hired high-skilled Full-Stack Developers from Tunisia, Ukraine, Cuba, and Brazil as well as Deep Learning experts from the US, Mexico and Russia, all with Visa Sponsorship

• Feedback and Failure-Culture

• AWS and Google Cloud Setup

• Automated Kubernetes/Jenkins deployment cycle for test and prod environments

• Monthly reporting to the investors

• Board meetings with investors and other shareholders

• Regular Strategy Weekends to define the future of the company

• Techstars Accelerator

  • Mentorship-Driven Accelerator

  • Personal lifetime membership if the Techstars Network with more than 1000 companies like AWS, Google, DigitalOcean etc.

• Scrum project management in Jira, weekly sprints, planning poker

• Workshops for IT and Non-IT, for example on Infrastructure and dev processes

• Representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg as part of the German Delegation at the South by South West 2015 in Austin, Texas, USA

Continued work for The Trane Company

Homepage Projects for small companies (e.g. a dentist homepage)

GPS, GPRS driven travel expenses collector (PHP)

Warehouse management system (PHP)

Time recording system for Mac, Windows, Linux (C++ and the Qt framework)

Server Management (Suse Linux Enterprise Server)

Corporate Intranet platform (PHP)

Workplace virtualization (VMware Server)

Monitoring of photovoltaic panels (PHP, BACnet)

Building automation controller (JS, PHP and BACnet-Modbus gateway)

Start of an In-house Wiki (Wikimedia)

GPRS Gateway testing and on site installation for new building sites

On site customer support (installation and repair services)