Frank Munz ☁️ 🧱 Email & Phone Number

Munich, BY, DE

San Francisco, CA, US

• Drove a technical marketing asset drawing >>1 mio prospects and customers per year
• Developed and presented the highest-rated tech sessions at Data + AI Summit YOY: - 2024, top 16% percentile: compound AI demo (RAG, DBRX model, Vector DB) + NLP with real-time supernova satellite from NASA - 2023, top.
• Led engineering teams for tier 1 tech conferences CFPs
• Architected data model and storytelling for Data + AI Summit 2024 keynotes

San Francisco, CA, US

• Established the foundation for technical marketing and evangelism in Data Engineering while working as Senior Staff PMM
• Delivered the Data Engineering keynote at the Data AI World Tour in Sydney
• Created Databricks' most widely used technical demo in 2022, featuring Delta Live Tables with a Huggingface transformer model for sentiment analysis in streaming data
• Spearheaded product launches, GTM, and messaging integrating Mosaic AI technologies with Databricks Workflows and Delta Live Tables for real-time data streaming
• Claimed the stage with Mosaic AI and Data Engineering talks at Devoxx, Data Natives, etc. positioning Databricks as an AI industry leader

San Francisco, CA, US

Quadrupled the Databricks number of community meetups in EMEA to over 20. Data+AI Summit content owner. Authored articles published by AWS and GCP. Guest at the AWS Fireside Chat at the height of Corona with 1000 live viewers. Created a new marketing format with 14,000 live viewers. Presented at OSDC, Big Things, and Big Data Europe.Created an innovative.

• Founded and led a boutique consultancy (munz & more) for 13 years specializing in cloud architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and microservices. Delivered high-impact enterprise solutions for Fortune 500.
• Spearheaded SOA, Service Bus, and Java Enterprise projects for industry leaders in Europe (Siemens, European Patent Office, Swiss Government)
• Spent a year in Sydney, Australia, leading projects for major telecom providers: Telstra, Australia Post, and Optus
• Pioneered Oracle's first-ever workshops in Africa, covering South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria
• Authored three influential computer science books on Enterprise Java, Middleware, and Cloud Computing, adopted by US universities
• Recognized as Oracle Technologist of the Year in Cloud Computing

Seattle, WA, US

• Built up from scratch and scaled Technical Evangelism at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.Focus areas:
• AI/ML (SageMaker): with Forecasting using CNN and traditional statistical methods and Fraud Detection: Employing supervised ML algorithms and graph neural networks
• Big data, containers, and serverless technologiesKey Achievements:
• Trained AWS Summit keynote speakers
• Keynoted AI events with Intel/AWS
• Created core content pieces, that were viewed up to 60,000 times and liked 770 times, eg. Streaming Data with Apache Kafka / MSK.

Oracle Developer Champion (one of the first five nominated when the program started)Oracle Middleware Customer and Partner Advisory Board member. Driving Oracle Fusion Middleware products and roadmap as subject matter champion.

US

Worked with customers such as Australia Post and Telstra on web services, Java Enterprise, and service bus projects. SOA consulting and architecture review for DPWorld - the world’s largest port management company in Sydney Australia.

Santa Clara, California, US

Technical Architect, Business Analyst and Project Manager for business activity monitoring and event driven integration project at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. Integration and Performance Architect / Telefonica O2 Munich for a 200.000.000€ project.

München, Bayern, DE

Started Java Enterprise at Consol and built up a partnership with Sun Microsystems covering middleware and infrastructure services. I lead teams of software developers in various projects. Worked as BMW operations manager on behalf of Consol at BMW Munich.

Munich, Bavaria, DE

Developed distributed PET imaging algorithms, predicted scalability and built a HPC cluster for clinical routine in oncology and brain research 🧠.

Heidelberg, DE

I worked as a Data Scientist in the team of Prof. zur Hausen who won the Nobel prize in medicine for linking HPV virus to cancer. A vaccine based on our work nowadays saves 10s of thousands of lifes per year.