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DevOps, Automation, Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, Software Development, Site Reliability Engineering, Interim Leadership, Consulting,
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Project History
2019 - today: Accenture Technology Living
Role: Senior Manager
Tasks:
Accenture Technology Living DevOps Senior Manager in Living DevOps
- Built a direct network within weeks
- 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
2018 – 2019: Lift & shift
Role: Zeppelin Z-LAB DevOps Engineer
Customer: Z-LAB
Tasks:
- 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
2013 – 2018: Various projects
Role: Optile GmbH DevOps Architect
Customer: Optile GmbH
Tasks:
- 2017 – today built Java components to support newly formed operations team
- 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
2013-2013: Java enterprise development of modules
Role: Berlin Developer in the paywall core team
Customer: Axel Springer
Tasks:
- 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
2010 – 2012:
Role: Java Developer (part-time)
Customer: IAIS Fraunhofer, Bonn, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
Tasks:
- This project was initiated by the german government and took huge public credits. As assessed by other 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
2009 – 2011: Implemented
Role: working student Project-based
Customer: University library Osnabrück
Tasks:
- 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
2002 – 2009: Planned
Role: Freelancer
Tasks:
- 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
Skills
Profile:
- Being a naturally curious person, I have always tried to look behind the curtain of everything that came my way, so I found information technology to keep me interested on an every-day basis. This interest and my long-term experience in a multitude of topics enable me to dive deep and catch an idea about underlying models promptly, so that I can make valid suggestions about improvements instantly while emphasizing the strategic end-to-end thought.
- If personal involvement is needed, I will eagerly go hands-on in any technology. By thinking out of the box, I typically rate most technical problems to be solvable in a straight-forward way so I will proactively drive technical or cultural topics. With my broad versatility, strategic and holistic thinking, you will oVen find me solving multiple tasks at the same time by finding and exploiting synergetic factors.
- As an agile driver and lean enthusiast, my networking and communication skills help in finding a collabora.ve solution. I will always support my colleagues to develop a growth mindset to the best of their own, the company or team. Developing trust within team structures in short time will create transparency, confidence and cultural alignment, so that members chase the company’s goals out of their own motivation.
About me:
- I have always tried to look behind the curtain of everything that came my way, so I found information technology to give me something to keep me interested on an every-day basis.
This interest and my long-term experience enable me to dive deep into any topic and catch an idea about the underlying model promptly. By correlating the topic in question with known structures, I can make valid suggestions about improvements instantly while emphasizing the end-to-end thought. - If personal involvement is needed, I will eagerly and gladfully go hands-on in any technology, even with little or no preparation at all. Thinking out of the box while connecting my development background with strong operational and analytic skills, I typically rate most technical problems to be solvable in a straight-forward way and will proactively drive any topic. With my broad versatility, strategic and holistic thinking, you will often find me solving multiple tasks at the same time by finding and utilizing synergetic factors.
- As an agile driver and lean enthusiast, my proven networking and communication skills help in finding a collaborative solution or providing sustainable advice wherever needed while my natural growth mindset enables me asking the right questions to utilize challenges to the advantage of experience. With this exact mindset, I will always support my colleagues to evolve their skills to the best of the company or team. By generating trust within teams in short time, I will create transparency, confidence and cultural alignment, so that members chase the company’s goals out of their own effort.
Features:
- Servant leader and people developer with exceptional team capabilities
- Heavily strategic technical project planning capabilities
- Networker and true agile mindset driver with a natural growth mindset
- Strong technical and developer background
- Rapid adaption to new challenges and technologies
- Problem prevention by quickly finding edge cases and root causes
- Creative, holistic-thinking business professional
Work history:
2019 - 2019:
Tasks:
Accenture Technologies Living DevOps / Solution IQ, Sr Management Automation
2018 – 2019:
Customer: Zeppelin Z-Lab Garching
Role: DevOps Engineer
2013 – 2018:
Customer: Optile GmbH
Role: DevOps Architect
2013 - 2013:
Customer: Axel Springer Berlin
Role: Software development in paywall project
2011 – 2013:
Customer: IAIS Fraunhofer
Role: Software development and Operations in project
2002 – 2012:
Role: Freelancer, multiple projects with varying aspects and complexities
IDEs:
IntelliJ Idea, RubyMine, vi, Netbeans, Eclipse, npp
Language-specific technology:
- Frameworks:
- Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hazelcast, Neo4J, Jetty
- Testing:
- TestNG, Selenium / selenide, cucumber, Browserstack
- Build:
- Maven, Ant
- Webcontainers:
- Tomcat, VertX, Virgo / OSGi, Django
DevOps toolstack:
- Automation:
- Jenkins, GoCD, gitlab pipelines
- Configuration:
- puppet, terraform, ansible, foreman
- Logging:
- ELK, Sentry, rsyslog
- Monitoring:
- Icinga, CheckMK, Zabbix, Prometheus, VictorOps
Operations specific:
- Data / storage:
- Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, Neo4J, Redis, ActiveMQ, Elasticsearch
- Virtualization:
- Docker, Citrix XenServer, VmWare, Docker, KVM, HyperV
- Operating Systems:
- Debian Linux, CentOS / Redhat, Windows, MacOS, BSD
- Network:
- extended network and firewall knowledge
- Server Hardware:
- Dell, Lenovo, HP, Fujitsu Datastorage
- Webservers:
- NginX, Apache, AEM
- Security:
- auditd, aide, naxsi, AlienVault, openssl, vault
- Basic services:
- isc-dhcpd + relay, bind9, djbdns, TFTPd, ssh
Cloud:
AWS, (GCE)
Template engines:
Django, Jinja2, Freemarker, EPP, ERB
Project Tools:
Atlassian Jira (admin), GitHub, Nexus, Lucidchart, MS-Office
Encryption:
multiple public key and symmetric encryption protocols
Agile processes:
Kanban, Scrum, lean
Other (not limited to):
git, XML, HTML, CSS, HTTP, REST, json, SSL, LaTeX, regex, RDF
Current projects and personal playground:
- Further developing high output management and BPM skills
- Further IT architecture upskilling
- Kubernetes on GCE, AWS
- Hashicorp stack: nomad, consul, vault
Clifton Strengthfinder 34 persona top 10:
- Strategic
- Ideation
- Restorative
- Winning others over
- Empathy
- Learner
- Arranger
- Relator
- Activator
- Individualization
Extraordinary Achievements:
- Supported a DAX enterprise in cultural change towards agile and DevOps with an assessment and action plan in around 15 days on site with a highly appreciated result
- Transformed internal staffing structures towards a scalable process in two weeks, performance visible within 4 weeks.
- Career counselor, trainer and mentor for multiple colleagues
- Achieved PCI-DSS level 1 certification with a small project team, while being accredited little chance of success by the auditors in advance.
- Kept up 100% uptime in core product since 2015, approaching 4y 24/7 of on-call duty without incidents
- Processed dataset > 420mio entries into ontology database in 5 days, when contractor was unable to achieve goal at all
- Multiple times found hidden solutions for complex problems in project kickoff planning, at times rendering the specific project itself obsolete
- I was trusted by the professors in university to tutor master’s courses while that time not having a degree myself.
- In 2008 created an Adobe Flash based touch-panel prototype on site in China for a huge contractor for a pitch, triggering Linux Flash hardware support project for Intel graphics chips
Training History
2012 – 2013:
Institution: Fraunhofer OK
Degree: Bachelor of Science Informatics degree
Thesis: On request
2001 – 2012:
Institution: Universität of Osnabrück
Degree: Bachelor of Science Mathematics / Informatics studies
Veronika, Java Developer
Veronika, Java Developer


