Martin Gross - Product Management for Medical Portal

Q: Where is Martin based?

Martin is based in Bad Homburg, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Martin speak?

Martin speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary), Portuguese (Elementary) .

Q: How many years of experience does Martin have?

Martin has at least 21 years of experience. During this time, Martin has worked in at least 17 different roles and for 11 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months . Note that Martin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Martin's latest experience?

Martin's most recent position is Product Management for Medical Portal at MedTech Startup .

Q: What companies has Martin worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Martin has worked for MedTech Startup , DevOps & Efficiency Consulting for Various Companies , Sabbatical , BWI , and Commerzbank .

Q: Which industries is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology , Aerospace and Defense , and Tourism . Martin also has some experience in Banking and Finance , Insurance , and Transportation .

Q: Which business areas is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology , Project Management , and Quality Assurance . Martin also has some experience in Product Development and Operations .

Q: Which industries has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in industries like Information Technology , Banking and Finance , and Aerospace and Defense .

Q: Which business areas has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology , Product Development , and Operations .

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Bad Homburg, Germany

Experience

Apr 2025 - Present

1 year

Product Management for Medical Portal

MedTech Startup

Product strategy and roadmap development for digital health portal
Requirements engineering and feature prioritization
User story definition and backlog management
Prototype development
Implementation of continuous delivery
Search engine optimization
Technological environment: Claude Code, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Agentic Coding, TypeScript, React, AstroJS, PostgreSQL, JetBrains IntelliJ, Netlify, Supabase, GitHub Actions, Git, DevOps, continuous delivery

Sep 2024 - Present

1 year 7 months

DevOps & Efficiency Consultant

DevOps & Efficiency Consulting for Various Companies

Analysis and optimization of software development processes
Value stream mapping to identify inefficient workflows and bottlenecks
Improvement of team collaboration and communication structures
Measurement and improvement of developer experience
Recommendations for adopting DevOps practices
Targeted use of Agentic Coding
Coaching of leaders and teams
Technological environment: various tech stacks depending on client, agile methods, Lean, DevOps, Mural, value stream mapping

Feb 2024 - Aug 2024

7 months

Sabbatical

Time off with focus on family

Dec 2022 - Jan 2024

1 year 2 months

Product Owner

BWI

Member of the product management and Product Owner team for cloud platform
Development of cloud services for software developers
Organizing and conducting use case workshops
Defining use cases with product owners
Requirements engineering
Security: VS-NfD, BSI IT baseline protection, Zero Trust, IAM, VPC
Further development of the roadmap and objective chain
Measuring and improving the platform's user-friendliness
Defining a methodology to determine the developer experience
Developing test scenarios, training testers and observers
Organizing and conducting test sessions
Processing results and deriving actions
Presenting insights and results to stakeholders
Planning the implementation of improvement measures with product owners
Moderating the weekly Product Owner meeting
Introducing and coordinating focus topics for quarterly planning
Technological environment: VMware, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Kyverno, ArgoCD, Crossplane, HashiCorp Vault, Linkerd, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Grafana, MinIO, Artifactory, Python, Nexus, Sysdig, Active Directory, GitLab, Git, Docker, Jira, Confluence, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, ITIL, CI/CD, IoT, BSI baseline protection, VS-NfD, mTLS

Jun 2021 - Oct 2022

1 year 5 months

DevOps Transformation Coach

Commerzbank

Assessment of DevOps capabilities
Workshop facilitation
Value Stream Mapping
Drive DevOps practices
Scale DevOps coaching
Develop learning paths for technical teams
Coaching teams and Product Owners to adopt DevOps principles and overcome current challenges
Identify bottlenecks in software delivery
Improve operations through value stream mapping
Accelerate software delivery to customers
Establish a continuous improvement mindset
Align development and operations
Establish a collaborative culture
Project environment: Java, Continuous Quality Assurance, OpenShift, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE, Mural, Git, Bitbucket, Docker, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, SAFe

Mar 2020 - Oct 2020

8 months

Project Manager BiPRO Web Services

R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG

Updating and gradual migration of BiPRO API services to the on-premise cloud as microservices
Advising projects to reach production readiness, including monitoring and incident handling
Design and implementation of optimization measures
Coordinating development and operations of BiPRO web services for new features, go-lives, changes, and incidents
Implementing continuous improvements based on DevOps and agile principles
Defining and implementing requirements for maintainability and operations, as well as optimizing operational processes toward observability
Documenting and presenting results to the project team and stakeholders, including recommendations
Product management and building collaboration with other Scrum teams
Test design and planning, coordinating technical and functional acceptance tests, test automation
Release planning, performing deployments, and operating microservices deployment pipelines
Expanding operational runbooks
Feasibility study for migrating three BiPRO services to a new platform
Technology environment: BiPRO STS (Security Token Service), standards 420 and 430, JBoss Wildfly, Softproject X4, Maven, Ant, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, microservices, Java, Spring Boot, private cloud, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Rancher, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Instana, WSDL, REST, SOAPUI, Postman, MinIO, GitHub, Docker, CA Harvest, ITSM, HP Service Manager, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum

Feb 2019 - Mar 2020

1 year 2 months

Hybrid

DevOps and Cloud Transformation

Lufthansa Cargo AG

Proof of concept and building the DevOps organization for hybrid operation of legacy applications and new microservices in Microsoft Azure (Strangler Fig Pattern)
Collaborating with stakeholders, external vendors, and Scrum Masters to integrate Scrum teams and the operations team in the DevOps environment
Planning, conducting, and moderating workshops (e.g. pre-mortem) for decision making
Redesigning and optimizing incident and release management as well as ITIL processes for DevOps
Introducing on-call services for additional teams, process visualization, and retrospectives
Defining requirements and specifications for monitoring and observability
Implementing continuous improvements following DevOps, Lean, and Agile principles
Technology environment: ITIL, Microsoft Azure Cloud, AKS, Azure Monitor, Kubernetes, Istio, microservices, Java, SonarQube, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Kibana, ServiceNow, ITSM, VMware, Spring Boot, JIRA, Scrum

Sep 2017 - Nov 2018

1 year 3 months

Project Lead Migration ESB and JEE Web Applications

Deutsche Leasing

Agile project management
Creating and coordinating project proposals with stakeholders, managing multiple parallel projects
Planning and coordinating scope, effort, schedule, budget, and quality assurance
Requirements, security updates, and dependency management
Proof of concept for migration to a new system
Managing an Indian offshore developer and internal teams
Introducing agile Scrum practices like daily scrums, burn-down charts, and retrospectives
Coordinating new architecture and requirement alignments with offshore and internal architects
Coordinating onsite testing and approvals
Project control, deliverable tracking, project reporting, stakeholder and risk management

Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

1 year 3 months

SOA Architecture and Governance

R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG

Introducing centralized quality assurance for SOA
Implementing Kanban for the QA workflow
Participating in Scrum events as a stakeholder
Advising developers and projects on interface modeling and service design
Defining the SOA roadmap
Quality assurance of web services and XML schemas
Defining guidelines and style guides for service design
Developing and coding Java tools for automated service design validation
Writing Ruby scripts to generate versioned service structures
Coordinating and supporting project topics, task planning, status tracking, reporting, and meeting facilitation

Jan 2013 - Dec 2016

4 years

Project Lead Lufthansa SOA and Middleware Platform

Amadeus IT Group

Transition project and knowledge transfer from the previous provider
Defining, implementing, and establishing processes with teams in Bangalore and Nice
First point of contact for functional issues and change requests between Lufthansa Group and Amadeus
Feasibility analysis, cost-benefit assessment, and implementation planning
Project management for LH eJournal and Concur Travel Management integration projects
Project planning with offshore and local teams, as well as coordination with third parties
Solution and delivery management
Supporting the launch of Lufthansa OpenAPI and planning its release
Technology environment: Mashery API Management, SOA, Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco EMS, ESB, Aurea Actional, OpenAPI, Java, web services, WSDL, REST, XML, XSD, Axis2, CXF, SOAP, Ruby on Rails, git, Maven, Oracle WLS

Jan 2009 - Dec 2013

5 years

Subproject Manager for myIDTravel System

Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Subproject management for airline integration projects, coordinating specifications and international conference calls
Architecture, customization and reimplementation of external interfaces
Specification and implementation of additional web service interfaces, supporting developers and customers
Implementation of a public/private key system to secure external interfaces, automating certificate creation and WS-Security
Operational support of web applications and web services including problem analysis, performance optimization and load testing
Pre-sales support and coordination with airline customers
Member of the Scrum development team and incident analysis
Technology environment: Java, ESB, XML, OTA XML, Axis2, SOAP, Apache ServiceMix, Tomcat, mySQL, Ruby, JUnit, RSpec, Subversion, git, Maven, SOAP UI, Selenium, IntelliJ IDEA, JIRA, Jenkins, JMeter

Jan 2007 - Dec 2009

3 years

Product Development for myIDTravel Booking System

Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Improving product quality through organizational and tool-based measures
Introducing a continuous integration system and PMD and FindBugs for code quality assurance
Switching to Maven as the build tool and Subversion for version control
Introducing a wiki as a knowledge base with sample implementations and architecture documentation
Mentoring and training junior developers
Advising the program manager on architecture issues
Specifying external interfaces (WSDL, OTA) including compatibility tests and WS-Security
Preparing deployments and production launches, organizing integration projects and user acceptance tests
Load testing and performance analysis

Jan 2007 - Dec 2007

1 year

Feasibility Study for Migration of High-Availability Middleware

Lufthansa Systems

Evaluating software upgrade options for middleware components on BEA WebLogic Server, Tuxedo and eLink
Upgrading from JDK 1.4 to JDK 5 and JDK 6
Reviewing Solaris operating system upgrades
Assessing upgrade scenarios, actions and alternatives
Technology environment: BEA WebLogic Server, Tuxedo, eLink, JDK 5, JDK 6

Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

2 years

Software Architecture Team Member for Passenger Management System

Lufthansa Systems

Participating in the software architecture team for a passenger management system
Components: XML rules engine, Swing GUI, Struts internet booking engine, XML middleware
Requirements management (functional and non-functional)
Advising on technical feasibility and developing test concepts
Quality assurance of external software through testing and code reviews
Technical contact for offshore teams in Ireland, Hungary, Belarus and India
Test automation and error analysis
Technology environment: Java, J2EE, EJB, XML, XSD, XSLT, SOAP, BEA WebLogic 9, Tomcat, Oracle RAC, mySQL, Ruby, JUnit, CVS

Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

1 year

Technical Project Manager for Runtime Configuration and Monitoring

Lufthansa Systems

Technical project management and coordination of offshore resources in Hungary
Developing software architecture for highly available online configuration
Implementing a central, database-driven configuration system for runtime changes
Developing online monitoring for EJB components and integrating with Nagios
Extending the logging system for distributed troubleshooting and analysis
Designing the data model and implementing the data access layer
Technology environment: BEA WebLogic 8.1, MySQL, SQL, J2EE, EJB, iBatis, Hibernate, JDBC, XML, JMX, SNMP

Jan 2005 - Dec 2006

2 years

Performance Testing Engineer for EAI Components

Lufthansa Systems

Study the behavior of EAI software components under full load
Evaluate a third-party Java component for server deployment
Develop proof-of-concept applications and technical concepts
Define stress test cases, load tests with JMeter, and develop a JMeter plugin
Implement load generators and sinks for EJBs
Analyze memory leaks, response times, CPU and memory usage
Review, document, and present results
Technology environment: BEA Weblogic 8.1, J2EE, EJB, CORBA, JMeter, XML, JUnit

Jan 2004 - Dec 2005

2 years

SOA Web Services Introduction in EAI Middleware

Lufthansa Systems

Member of the architecture team for introducing J2EE Web Services into the EAI system ZAMBAS
Identify best practices for web service design (versioning, compatibility)
Investigate the BEA WLS Web Service Framework
Develop guidelines for service routing, security, logging, and error handling
Implement SOAP interfaces for existing EJBs
Define WSDL and XML Schema-based interfaces
Create Ant scripts for build and deployment
Implement a web service routing handler and test clients
Test concept for non-functional and load testing, as well as a JSP-based UI for SOAP routing
Technology environment: SOA, BEA Weblogic 8.1, Apache Axis, EJB, XML, JAXB, Ant, JUnit

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Tourism, Banking and Finance, Insurance, and Healthcare.

Information Technology

Aerospace and Defense

Tourism

Banking and Finance

Insurance

Healthcare

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Product Development, and Operations.

Information Technology

Project Management

Quality Assurance

Product Development

Operations

Summary

Over 20 years of experience in software development as project manager, Product Owner, software architect, and DevOps coach. Clients include Lufthansa, R+V Insurance, Amadeus, Deutsche Leasing, Commerzbank, and BWI.

Skills

Leading Technical, Multinational, And Distributed/remote Teams, Acting As Interface Between Business And It, Feasibility Studies, Systems And Methodologies
Agility, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Value Stream Analysis, Participative Decision-making
Cloud Strategy And 'Cloud Native' Solutions, Improving Development And Deployment Processes, Continuous Integration / Delivery, It Security, Agile Software Development

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Spanish

Elementary

Portuguese

Elementary

Education

TU Darmstadt

Diploma in Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Advanced ScrumMaster

A-CSM

Certified DevOps Coach

DASA

Certified ScrumMaster

CSM

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 17

Experience in Information Technology 15.5 y

Avg length 1 y 8 m

Longest experience 4 y 11 m

Expertise

Recent roles Product Management for Medical Portal, DevOps & Efficiency Consultant, Sabbatical

Main industries Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Tourism

Main business areas Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor

Certifications earned 3

Profile

Created

February 2025

Last Update

March 2026

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Where is Martin based?

Martin is based in Bad Homburg, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Martin speak?

Martin speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary), Portuguese (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Martin have?

Martin has at least 21 years of experience. During this time, Martin has worked in at least 17 different roles and for 11 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months. Note that Martin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Martin be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Martin would be well-suited for roles such as: Product Management for Medical Portal, DevOps & Efficiency Consultant, Sabbatical.

What is Martin's latest experience?

Martin's most recent position is Product Management for Medical Portal at MedTech Startup.

What companies has Martin worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Martin has worked for MedTech Startup, DevOps & Efficiency Consulting for Various Companies, Sabbatical, BWI, and Commerzbank.

Which industries is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, and Tourism. Martin also has some experience in Banking and Finance, Insurance, and Transportation.

Which business areas is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Quality Assurance. Martin also has some experience in Product Development and Operations.

Which industries has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Aerospace and Defense.

Which business areas has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Operations.

What is Martin's education?

Martin holds a Bachelor from TU Darmstadt.

Does Martin have any certificates?

Martin has 3 certificates. These include: Advanced ScrumMaster, Certified DevOps Coach, and Certified ScrumMaster.

What is the availability of Martin?

Martin is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Martin?

Martin's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.