Leading two high-performing teams I am responsible for three functional areas:Cloud Infrastructure: With a team of DevOps engineers, I build secure, scalable, reliable, performant, cost-optimized and sustainable infrastructure on AWS for the Development- and Tech Operations teams to run our services to support extreme growth in terms of load, geographical spread and strict customer requirements.My other strategic goals and operational responsibilities include:- Supporting technical due diligence with investors and other financing organizations- Steered LiveEO through our first and second audit periods for SOC2 Type II with clean reports, responsible for conducting yearly audits, driving culture for security and compliance by design- Establishing organizational data- and IT governance, processes and policies- Building long-term business relationships, negotiating terms and conditions with partners and suppliers- Cloud Financial Management and budget planningInformation Security: As ISO I am responsible for company-wide information and data security through risk management and threat awareness.- Keeping track of threats and vulnerabilities- Conducting risk analysis- Establishing organizational security governance- Managing and conducting awareness trainings- Supporting sales with technical pre-sales activitiesOffice IT: With a team of system administrators, I provide reliable, secure and cost-efficient hardware and software solutions for all employees world-wide. This includes:- Supporting massive scaling in the number of employees (25 to 150 in four years)- Establishing technical OfficeIT governance to support the scaling and compliance related requirements- Building long-term business relationships, negotiating terms and conditions with partners and suppliers- Financial IT Management and budget planning

Developed automated scaling capabilities to a PaaS solution, to manage customers' environments in the cloud:- Dynamic resource allocation- Integration with provisioning systems- Monitoring and alerting settings- Continuous Integration environmentIn charge of the Server Login back-end redesign. Responsible for architectural design and development of:- Database abstraction layer for data exchange and configuration- Model layer- RESTful API, which provides the Server Login and other client applications with a unified way to configure virtual and physical dedicated servers as well as other custom settings.Served as a focal point between Product Management and the Development Team.Represented Strato AG at international conferences and hackathons.

Responsible for functional specification and development of new features of a cloud solutionfor cross-enterprise collaboration services tailored toward construction and engineeringprojects:- Used the Continuous Delivery engineering approach- Applied model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for implementing user interfaces- Developed back-end logic, and designed database changes accordinglyParticipating in Release Management:- Developed structured approach to product lifecycle management- Negotiated priorities, deployment issues and development strategies with the senior executive management

Control Plane TeamApplication Security Module (ASM) development and integration in the BIG-IP ApplicationDelivery Platform:- Defined functional specifications and prototyped new features. Managed development projects across international teams- Managed, designed and developed the solution for data exchange and configuration synchronization with the WhiteHat Sentinel and numerous other Security Vulnerability Scanners. This included coordination with third parties as well as design and development of database layer, business logic, and ASM APIs- Worked closely with Business Development and Strategy Management to analyze needs of customers and partnersASM configuration layer design and development:- Designed and developed APIs for common access to the unified implementation of business logic as well as a registration API for receiving notifications on configuration change events

Cross-Product Infrastructure TeamLed the design and development of automated upgrade tools for Ex Libris products andprovided their 3rd level support:- Designed a standardized cross-product upgrade approach- Designed and developed patch processing menu-driven tools

Aleph Development Team- Developed new features for the Aleph integrated library system including synchronization of client-server communication on the application layer- Designed and developed easily customizable XSLT, which transformed standard XML input intowell-formatted HTML reports

Web Development Team- Developed and maintained business and database tiers- Developed SQL queries, Data Transformation Services and Stored ProceduresNetwork Operations Team- Developed search pages and voice-gateway monitoring services- Designed and developed an on-going traffic monitor of voice-gateways to produce utilization statistics