Projects description:

All described projects below following more or less the similar approach

• Understanding product needs and requirements. The initial phase involves thoroughly understanding the product requirements and identifying the needs of the stakeholders
• Time planning and technical feasibility. The team(s) assesses the project's scope and complexity, and decomposes the product requirements to better understand the technical feasibility. A rough estimation of the potential delivery time is made
• Addressing Technical Feasibility: Sometimes additional timeboxed actions ("spikes") are necessary to verify technical feasibility
• Budgeting and Stakeholder Alignment: The project's budget is established, and responsible teams are assigned. Alignment with stakeholders is crucial to ensure feasibility and prioritize tasks. Given that multiple projects run concurrently, it is essential to align the company on priorities, time frames, resource allocation, and dependencies
• Development and Collaboration. The development phase begins, and regular status updates are provided. Adjustments, reprioritizations, escalations, and realignments may be required during this stage

In my role as Head of Tech or Team Lead, I have been involved in various fields, primarily focusing on the following aspects:

• Ensuring Product Necessity and KPI Challenges: Before initiating any project, I ensure that the KPIs align with the project objectives
• Organizational part, team(s) are using the most effective approach for development and collaboration process (planning, priorisation, and clarifying dependencies)
• Milestone tracking and control, making necessary realignments and handling escalations whenever required
• On-Time and On-Budget Delivery: One of the core responsibilities is to ensure that projects are delivered within the allocated time and budget constraints
• Post-Delivery Evaluation: After product delivery and during the lean product development phase, I ensure that KPIs are tracked and compared to real data, identifying areas for improvement and taking appropriate actions

2022- 2023: Startup, Software Solution for Fully / Semi-Automated Trading

Main goal is to deliver a software solution for full / semi automated trading:

• Project goals, planning and time management
• Resource and risk management
• Product related aspects:
• Requirements and KPI definitions
• Analysis of existing markets
• Portfolio, equity risk management
• Trading strategies evolving
• Cloud hosting (AWS), Docker, delivery pipelines.
• Reporting, monitoring, alerting

2014 - 2022: New products development 

• Core value & membership products
• On top products
• Internal Customer Area
• API based Ingestion
• Search service

2014 - 2022: Migration to AWS 

Successfully achieved in the second half of 2022, the migration of department services to AWS led to the closure of on-premise data centers. The migration, spanning eight years, utilized various strategies such as rehosting, retiring, and refactoring/rewriting services. This milestone brings cost savings, improved performance, and enhanced IT infrastructure to the organization, setting the stage for future innovations

This project's impact extends beyond technical achievements, as it led to significant changes in the company's collaboration, culture, and organizational structure. Key accomplishments include:

• Establishment of cross-functional teams
• Implementation of "You Build It, You Run It" principle
• Adaptation of collaboration and planning methods at all levels (from the team level up to the entire organization)

In the role of Head of Tech and or Team Lead, I led cultural and organizational changes, forming and managing international cross-functional teams, including near-shore collaboration

List of technical projects, with my responsibility, accomplished during the AWS migration project

• Projects in 2019 - 2022 (Head of Tech)
  • Oracle migration
  • Ingestion of classifieds
  • Identity
  • Messaging
  • Bayes
  • Images delivery
  • Taxonomy
• Projects in 2015 - 2017 (Team Lead)
• • ElasticSearch and Search service
  • Search Engine Result Page (SERP)
  • Detail page

2015 - 2017: M&A

Participation in two international M&A and Due Diligence projects:

• Elaboration and Clarification of Existing Tech Stacks. As a part of M&A team I conducted in-depth analysis and assessment of the tech stacks used by the target companies. This involved understanding their technologies, frameworks, databases, and infrastructure to evaluate compatibility with our organization's systems
• Responsible for technical integration into the AS24 landscape. I took charge of the technical integration process, ensuring smooth incorporation of the acquired companies' technologies into the existing AS24 landscape. This involved aligning APIs, data flows, and application interfaces to ensure seamless interoperability

Working Experience:

2022-05 - today

Self-employed work

2011-03 - 2022-04

Customer: Autoscout24 GmbH, München

2003-04 - 2011-02

Customer: bec kommunal GmbH, Feldkirchen

2000-07 - 2002-04

Customer: IntraTools GmbH, Feldkirchen

1999-01 - 2000-06

Customer: Softlab GmbH, München

1998-01 - 1999-01

Customer: 2CK mbH, München