DevOps, Automation, Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, Software Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Interim Leadership, Consulting,

• Business Development towards potential clients
• Introduced a better team culture with agile processes in a team of 10-15 colleagues
• Found and fixed gaps in the end-to-end staffing process with high results
• Technical and cultural due diligence at a client’s site with actionable results
• Created and held multiple client presentations and workshops
• Helped in defining RfPs 

• Lift & shift of an Adobe Experience Manager system into AWS cloud
• Developed a DevOps / deployment environment
• Found and fixed security gaps
• Found and fixed process gaps

Tasks:

• 2017 – 2018 built Java components to support newly formed operations team. Consulting newly hired CTO.
• 2014 – 2016 planned, built and maintained automated deployment pipeline
• 2014 – 2016 implemented and reached initial PCI-DSS level 1 certification
• 2013 – 2015 planned, built production and testing infrastructure, including monitoring

Other tasks involved:

• Supporting sales team in validating requests and technical questions
• Supporting development team in questions regarding multi-node operation
• Supporting HR in recruitments and onboarding new colleagues
• Writing technical product and white papers
• Developing new business processes to support certifications
• Taking care of RFPs and questionnaires, correlating customer topics with company standards

• Planned, developed and supported a touch panel prototype for a marketing pitch in China
• Planned, developed a web portal for document translation scheduling (C#, ASP.net)
• Planned, developed an encrypted download tool for a company CMS (C#, Windows)
• Planned, developed warehousing software for chemistry company (C#, Windows)
• Planned, developed a management frontend for chemistry company (C#, Windows)
• General Linux and firewall administration
• Multiple other projects

• Java enterprise development of modules
• Built a centralized logging infrastructure with Elasticsearch ELK stack
• Documented existing architecture for better onboardings
• Provided expertise to the Project managers as a consultant

Tasks:

• This project was initiated by the german government and took huge public credits. As assessed by independent Fraunhofer institutes, we managed to surpass the production state of the competitors by around 5 years in a team of about 15 people.
• In this project, I managed to correlate datasets of about 6 million entries, which, basing on the nature of the technology, quickly evolved into around 420 million entries and thus breaking common data processing limits. After providing my solution to the datacenters, we were able to ingest these datasets in record time.
• Among other tasks, my part in this project involved:
  
  • Building modules for DDB Core project
  • Performance and measuring stability under high peak load in a prototype phase
  • Infrastructure planning and administration
  • Calculating, automating and optimizing dataset processing

• Implemented an open-access document repository to match the universities’ needs
• Developed a tool to rebuild the library management system in PgSQL, Neo4j, Python, Django
• Developed an ontology-based framework for supporting an online tutoring system