DevOps Experts in Vienna

I build. I advise. I think in systems. After years leading digital transformation at scale — Accenture, BP, Lidl — I made a deliberate choice: trade platform dependency for structural independence. My focus is at the intersection of AI systems, product strategy, and venture thinking. I work with operators and founders who want to move fast without losing control — of their data, their stack, their direction.

Technologies: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Office 365 (Teams, PowerPoint, Copilot, Excel, SharePoint, Forms, OneNote, PowerAutomate, Word), DataDog, Conceptboard, Python, AWS, Claude, Perplexity Methodology: Scrum

• Steering and supporting the organization in introducing Scrum and a SAFe-inspired quarterly roadmap and portfolio planning at program level.
• Servant leadership for Scrum teams and managers to achieve quarterly goals and measurably increase value creation for internal and external customers.
• Designing and building efficient communication and collaboration structures between multiple development teams and central stakeholders in the organization.
• Moderating and facilitating cross-functional workshops and management meetings to align on shared goals.
• Coaching leaders, Product Owners, and development teams on agile values, role understanding, and scaled ways of working (Scrum, SAFe, Business Agility).
• Removing structural obstacles at team and organizational level through targeted impediment management and escalation processes.
• Enabling teams to become more self-organized, accountable, and end-to-end responsible along the value streams.
• Individual coaching of key people (Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters) to strengthen their impact in the transformation program.
• Organization-wide identification, planning, and implementation of process, structure, and tool improvements to sustainably increase efficiency, throughput, and value creation.
• Close support for Product Owners in stakeholder management, business value prioritization, product strategy, roadmap planning, and effective collaboration with development teams.
• Introducing, governing, and scaling Azure DevOps as the central project and product management tool, including coaching the organization on usage, reporting, and alignment at all levels.

Achievements:

• Clear increase in visibility, transparency, and perceived value creation of the development teams within the overall organization.
• Noticeable improvement in communication between development, business, and other stakeholders.
• Optimization of work processes, workflow, and backlog structures, which reduced lead times, sharpened priorities, and sustainably increased team effectiveness.

• Organizational Change Management as part of a group-wide, supranational sales transformation, serving as the core of a broad restructuring of business-critical areas, with end-to-end control of the change process and long-term embedding and securing the future readiness of sales.
• Initiation and end-to-end steering of the sales transformation program, including in-depth analysis to identify, assess, and strategically involve all relevant stakeholders, making tactical use of their specific business interests and influence.
• Conducting advanced, detailed change impact analyses to predict the organizational effects of the transformation, deriving a tailored change strategy, and developing a change roadmap and a change story as the core narrative of the campaign.
• Designing and implementing an integrated communication and action plan to ensure maximum transparency, effectively manage unspoken expectations, and actively guide a change process that is clear and understandable for all stakeholders.
• Active management of all transformation phases, including the setup of robust monitoring mechanisms for continuous progress analysis and forecasting based on recommended and jointly defined KPIs.
• Establishing an agile analysis and adjustment cycle to continuously assess the effectiveness of implemented measures, identify challenges early, and fine-tune the change strategy in time.
• Conducting precise gap analyses to identify skill gaps in the sales team in the context of the new strategic direction, and deriving and developing targeted qualification measures (e.g. coaching, training).
• Comprehensive reduction of resistance to change by turning opposing stakeholder mindsets into proactive change-driving change ambassadors.
• Deep and sustainable realignment of sales structures and processes in full alignment with the company’s overall goals.
• Qualitative and quantitative improvement of sales efficiency and performance as a direct result of the implemented transformation initiatives and capability-building programs.

Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.

• Extraction, transformation, and cleansing of data from Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Creation of sales reports in Power BI
• Training employees in business intelligence
• Technologies: Power BI, SQL, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Tech: AWS (Glue, Lambda, Redshift), Airflow, PostgreSQL, Python, PySpark, Metabase, Power BI

Delivered: Analytics-Ready Data Models • Legacy SQL to Cloud ETL Migration • Dynamic Pricing Engine

• Owned and evolved the company data warehouse end-to-end — from ingestion to transformation to analytics-ready dimensional data models on AWS Redshift.
• Collaborated with Analysts, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable dimensional data models that enable self-serve analytics and streamline dashboarding in Metabase and Power BI.
• Architected end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS (Glue, Lambda, Redshift) using Python and PySpark, orchestrated with Apache Airflow (MWAA) for reliability and observability.
• Defined and enforced data quality standards and governance practices across pipelines and the core data layer.
• Led migration of legacy SQL infrastructure into scalable AWS Glue pipelines with distributed PySpark processing, eliminating bottlenecks and reducing downtime.
• Developed a dynamic pricing engine applying automated promotional discounts based on occupancy rates, competitor pricing, and location performance tiers.
• Designed schema mappings to ingest MongoDB data into structured relational systems (Redshift/PostgreSQL).

Project Tech Stack: Python, AWS, Azure, FastAPI, openai, pandas, unittest/pymock

Achievements:

• Engineered automated data extraction pipelines to transform complex Excel datasets into structured formats via LLM-driven workflows.
• Architected a generative slide-deck engine that translates natural language prompts into formatted presentation assets.
• Integrated advanced LLM capabilities with the OpenAI Response API, implementing sophisticated tool-calling and structured output logic.
• Developed and containerized scalable backend microservice using FastAPI, Docker, and OpenShift to host and serve agentic skills.

• Shaping service management framework as part of head office of RBI
• Service owner overseeing IT cloud services, accountable for overall quality, lifecycle, and success
• Managing customer relationships and satisfaction for 10 business units ensuring smooth business continuity and operations
• Single point of contact and service/process owner providing T-shaped expertise in IT domains, cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Orca, CRM, GitHub, SFMC)
• ITSM/ITIL implementation and mentoring including design, definition, mapping, and execution
• Change and release management, UAT/test assurance, major incident management, SDLC management
• Managing regulatory and audit requirements, DORA, GDPR, ITPF compliance and reporting
• Acting as a point of escalation for complex customer issues, resolving conflicts, fostering a customer-centric culture
• People management: leading and managing service delivery teams, DevOps, vendors, and third-party teams
• Cross-tribe service delivery and contract management: KPIs, SLAs, OLAs, RPO, RTO, BCM/SCM management
• Agile/Scrum process delivery governance, stakeholder communication, and budget/cost management

Project goal: Introduce OpenShift as the run-time platform and migrate all applications to OpenShift.

My contribution: Make sure logging and monitoring for the applications were in place. Set up and put into operation the OpenShift components for logging and monitoring (Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana). Develop and implement the security concept for OpenShift. Work with developers to define and carry out the application changes needed for the OpenShift migration. Integrate monitoring into the applications.

Technical environment: Java, WebSphere Liberty, OpenShift components, Elasticsearch (ELK stack), Prometheus, Grafana.

• Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
• Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
• Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Supports CANCOM customers in migrating legacy on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry
• Takes over and stabilizes existing solutions after a short handover
• Business analysis and requirements engineering for migration to a new cloud environment
• Optimization of machine learning models for feature extraction and customer profiling
• Ensures data protection and compliance
• Leads the migration of on-prem systems to Microsoft Fabric
• Designs new AI platforms for clients
• Tests the integration of chatbots for document intelligence with Microsoft Foundry, including requirements analysis, implementation, validation, and client communication

• Java EE 8 development
• Java 21 and Spring Boot 3 microservices development
• Release management
• Onboarding of new team members
• Owner of an team-internal "Best Code Engineering Award"

• Deputy project manager for one of the largest projects in the Customs Union Code program, CEIS CDA for the Federal Ministry of Finance
• Budget planning and control
• Negotiations and ongoing communication with all relevant stakeholders
• Risk identification and assessment, and development of risk mitigation strategies
• Creation and implementation of action strategies to achieve project goals
• Efficient resource planning and allocation to support project requirements
• Managing the release process using agile methods and coordinating sprints for analysis, development, and testing phases
• Process optimizations and regular reporting for progress monitoring and decision making

• Focus on digital transformation in the energy and mobility sector, including SAP R3 transition to S/4HANA
• Project management and requirements engineering in the energy sector (workshops, requirement specification creation, process development)
• Advice on the mobility strategy for public transport/transport of Stadtwerke Wien
• Development of digital strategies for after-sales program at Daimler-Benz