Hanno Kolvenbach - Vice President, Product Development

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Aachen, Germany

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Experience

Apr 2024 - Present

2 years 5 months

Boston, United States

Vice President, Product Development

EdgeIQ, Inc

Responsible for EdgeIQ Symphony, a low-code workflow orchestration platform for the Connected Product Economy
Developed an IoT platform that can scale to millions of devices and billions of processed events
Flexible platform design allows management of heterogeneous device fleets
Integration with modern IoT technologies like MQTT, LWM2M, x509 certificate-based authentication, TPM2.0-hardware encryption

Sep 2023 - Apr 2024

8 months

Boston, United States

Senior Software Architect

EdgeIQ, Inc

Implemented systemwide event tracing via OpenTelemetry
Designed architecture for device certificates and mutual TLS
Technology: Go, MQTT, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, AWS Cloud

Apr 2022 - Oct 2023

1 year 7 months

Bonn, Germany

DevOps/CloudOps Consultant

Milia GmbH

Implementing a DevOps strategy from scratch
Building a scalable microservice architecture on AWS
Technology: TypeScript, CDK, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS Cloud

Apr 2022 - Sep 2023

1 year 6 months

Boston, United States

Senior Software Engineer

EdgeIQ, Inc

Responsible for IoT Gateway written in Go (Cross-platform & multi-architecture)
Communication with IoT devices and message processing via MQTT
Integration with AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass (V1 and V2)
Technology: Go, MQTT, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, AWS Cloud

Sep 2021 - Mar 2022

7 months

Bellevue, United States

Author

educative, Inc

Creation of an interactive online course to teach the foundations of AWS using code examples and real-world applications

Mar 2020 - Sep 2020

7 months

Albershausen, Germany

Configuration Software for an Industrial Robot

CAMOZZI Automation

Development of a cross platform application with Qt5
C++ with Qt5 / QML for Desktop application (Mac & Windows)
C for embedded system communication protocol

May 2017 - Jan 2019

1 year 9 months

Cologne, Germany

Product Manager Cloud

Silexica (now Xilinx)

Responsible for SLX.cloud, an online IDE for C/C++ development
Leading a team of 5
Contributor to Eclipse Che
Going live in less than 3 months after start of project
5x more cloud signups than desktop product downloads
At peak contributing 65% of all qualified leads through SLX.cloud
Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Terraform, Ansible
Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
IDE: Eclipse Che and C++ Language Server for Syntax Highlighting

Aug 2016 - Apr 2017

9 months

Cologne, Germany

Junior Operations Manager

Silexica (now Xilinx)

Oct 2014 - Mar 2015

6 months

Aachen, Germany

Developing a Machine Producing Catheters

Linator AG

Development of user interface and implementation with Siemens WinCC flexible
Integration and optimization of existing SCADA system (Siemens S7)
Complete mechanical redesign of the machine (Autodesk Inventor)
Integration into existing production processes and training of employees

Nov 2009 - Sep 2015

5 years 11 months

Aachen, Germany

Temporary Employment

Linator

SPS engineering
C/C++ engineering
CAE/CAD engineering

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Manufacturing, Education, and Healthcare.

Information Technology

Manufacturing

Education

Healthcare

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Product Development, Information Technology, Operations, and Production.

Product Development

Information Technology

Operations

Production

Skills

Knowledge Of All Mayor Cloud Platforms (Aws, Azure, Gcp) And Technologies (Microservice Architecture, Docker, Kubernetes)
Extensive Knowledge Of Ci/Cd Pipelines Built With Gitlab Ci, Jenkins, And Github And Configuration Management (Ansible)
Cloud Native Software Development (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
Go, C And C++ Development (Both Desktop And Embedded)
Qt5 / Qml Framework
Good Knowledge Industrial Automation & Embedded Systems (Siemens Wincc Flexible, S7)

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 2016 - Apr 2017

RWTH Aachen University

M.Sc., Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering · Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering · Aachen, Germany

Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

Riga Technical University

Entrepreneurship and Management · Riga, Latvia

Oct 2011 - Oct 2016

RWTH Aachen University

B.Sc, Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration · Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration · Aachen, Germany

Certifications & licenses

LFCA: Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate

LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator

Advanced Cloud Engineer IT Professional Program

Linux Foundation

Certified Redis Developer

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 10

Experience in Information Technology 7 y

Avg length 1 y 7 m

Longest experience 5 y 10 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 2 (Germany, United States)

Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Vice President, Product Development, Senior Software Architect, DevOps/CloudOps Consultant

Main industries Information Technology, Manufacturing, Education

Main business areas Product Development, Information Technology, Operations

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Certifications earned 7

Profile

Created

September 2024

Last Update

September 2025

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Hanno is based in Aachen, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.

Hanno speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).

Hanno has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Hanno has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 4 months. Note that Hanno may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Hanno would be well-suited for roles such as: Vice President, Product Development, Senior Software Architect, DevOps/CloudOps Consultant.

Hanno's most recent position is Vice President, Product Development at EdgeIQ, Inc.

In recent years, Hanno has worked for EdgeIQ, Inc, Milia GmbH, educative, and Inc.

Hanno is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Education. Hanno also has some experience in Healthcare.

Hanno is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Information Technology, and Operations. Hanno also has some experience in Production.

Hanno has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Education.

Hanno has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology and Product Development.

Hanno holds a Master in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from RWTH Aachen University.

Hanno has 7 certificates. Among them, these include: LFCA: Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate, LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

Hanno is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

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