25+ years professional software development experience, CTO/head of development, tech lead, lean innovation management and methods, technology/platform selection, technical strategy consulting, devOps, enterprise architecture design, compliance, 10 years of scientific research experience in the field of mobile, web/cloud technologies, data science and AI, productive in many international projects and multi-cultural environments.Core Competencies and Skills:Product/Software Development and Product Management in the area of saas, financial services, real estate/prop tech, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science.R&D management e.g. collaborations with universities, ventures, external vendors and outsourcing incl. product & prototype development, presentation at tech-fairs and field tests with customers.System engineering on most platforms (Mobile, Front- & Backend/Fullstack) incl. project management, requirements engineering, implementation, architecture design, test driven & agile development, micro-services and micro-services based architectures, ELT and data pipelines, data-warehouse.Open innovation (Scouting and evaluation of venture technologies for corporate use), Design Thinking, UX Research, Lean StartupRecent project hands-on experience with Python, Javascript, Typescript, Kubernetes, SQL, Angular, StencilPrevious experience in Docker, React, Go, Objective-C/IOS, C#/ASP.NET MVC/Windows Mobile, TCL, BASH, Java/Android/Glassfish, C/C++Field of expertise: Enterprise SaaS, Telco, Financial, Proptech, Wireless, Networking, Cloud Computing, Mobile Application Development, Image Processing, Video Processing, Computer Vision, NLP, Ubiquitous Computing, Context Awareness, Location Based Services, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, (Micro-)Service Architectures.