Part of the exec team

- Scaled up engineering from 4 engineers to 16- Implemented a high velocity, high reliability and efficient engineering team structure- Managed entire product development teams including UX designers and product managers- Coached first time team leads- Implemented process, role descriptions, performance framework- Worked closely with Director of People ops for diversity hiring which led to 25% women in our teams- Achieved high retention, and high performing engineering teams with ~20 deploys per day, fast lead times and high platform reliability- Build out a data lake to enable sales and marketing to leverage data insights- Responsible for ramping up and maintaining SOC 2 compliance

- Manage 2 cross functional product development teams and a data labelling team (~30 reports) in a 100% remote, international environment- Plan and implement together with COO a engineering reorganization and devops maturity initiative that led to 70% engineering velocity improvement and weekly stable production deployments- Establish a practice of regular 1:1s in the group for coaching and mentoring our engineers

- Leading the device team- Creating a new target software architecture for the device layer along with an implementation plan consisting of small iterations, delivering improvements every two weeks- Help the team improve significantly with DevOps maturity, clean code, CI and testing, an agile delivery- Help improve collaboration between product and my engineering team- Establishing PR reviews as a standard practice of development- Create a small zero downtime deployable service for automated codesigning of iOS applications as a template for other engineers to follow

Hands off management, managing two teamsHelping a feature team navigating ambiguity and making reliable commitments using agile release forecastingHelping improve hiring and on-call rotation process

- Senior Engineer and technical lead in the team responsible for delivering the Sauce Labs Real Device Cloud with ~2000 real devices- Maintaining and improving a containerized PaaS for automated and live real device UI-testing- Taking responsibility for production services by being on pager duty - Developing new features for Android and iOS devices and presenting them to customers- Reverse engineering Apple private APIs and re-implement in Java to run iOS devices on Linux machines reducing operational costs - Presenting at Meetups and Conferences (See links)- Organizing company wide HackathonsJava, Golang, MongoDB, Docker, Ansible, Netty, Git, C/ASM, Objective C/Swift, Android, Appium, JavaScript, Python, HAProxy, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana, Jira, Confluence

- Rank: Hauptmann (Captain)Worked as assistant project manager for the digital transformation of the integrated planning process.Part of a concept development and experimentation project for knowledge management exploring deep learning technologies to improve the solution.Technologies: SharePoint, Python, Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, SKLearn, Microsoft Cognitive Services

- Rank: Hauptmann (Captain)Promoted internally to IT-Manager and deputy head of department- Section leader of IT-Service Management- Leading a team of 5- Introduced agile leadership Engineering Manager until September 2015- Led a team of 15 engineers- Planned training for software engineers, quality engineers and administrators- Conducted and planned code reviews - Led development of a web application project for the alarm system of the German military, negotiating a performance agreement with the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), designing the software architecture, planning and sizing the operations platform, providing stakeholders with regular project reports- Led development of a web application for managing IDs in Cologne for about 5000 Users - Implemented agile methodology ScrumTechnologies: MS SharePoint, ASP.NET MVC C# /AngularJS, Unity Dependency Injection, Entity Framework, Powershell, Selenium- Coordination between the civilian IT service provider (BWI GmbH) and military divisions and departments

Engineering Manager until September 2015- Led a team of 15 engineers- Planned training for software engineers, quality engineers and administrators- Conducted and planned code reviews - Led development of a web application project for the alarm system of the German military, negotiating a performance agreement with the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), designing the software architecture, planning and sizing the operations platform, providing stakeholders with regular project reports- Led development of a web application for managing IDs in Cologne for about 5000 Users - Implemented agile methodology ScrumTechnologies: MS SharePoint, ASP.NET MVC C# /AngularJS, Unity Dependency Injection, Entity Framework, Powershell, Selenium- Coordination between the civilian IT service provider (BWI GmbH) and military divisions and departments

- Rank: Leutnant/Oberleutnant (Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant)Got promoted internally to be a team lead of the web development team- Led a team of 4 software engineers- Planned training and onboarding for SharePoint and web development- Requirements engineering during customer workshops and conversion of requirements into technical specifications for the developers and QATechnologies: MS SharePoint, C#, Powershell, NodeJSAt first I did what we call DevOps nowadays- Helped migrating a Sun Solaris based, heterogeneous environment to a Microsoft Hyper-V Farm- Ported the Java application server to Windows- Developed automated migration of file shares including permissions- Installed and configured SharePoint 2010 and System Center Operations ManagerTechnologies: MS SharePoint, MS Active Directory, Windows Server, AngularJS, JQuery, C#, REST, Java, Android