Google Cloud Platform Experts in Austria

• 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.

Focus:

• Developing and providing Cloud Native Courses
• Architecture Consulting for Platform Engineering and Cloud Native
• Supporting Teams and People on their Cloud Native Journey

Delivered Trainings:

• Kubernetes Fundamentals - From Pods to Ingresses; 2 Days
• Platform Engineering on GKE - Operators, GitOps, Gateway API, Policy Management, Storage; 2 Days
• Platform Engineering on AKS - GitOps, External Secrets, Policy Management, Ingress/Gateway API and Storage; 4 Days

Currently In Progress:

• Platform Engineering Basic / Advanced on OpenShift - OpenShift/Kubernetes Basics, GitOps, External DNS, External Secrets; Multi-Step Program with 2 Course Blocks (3 and 2 Days) and self-paced projects

• 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.

• Implemented and maintained 443 automated test cases with a 99% pass rate (441/443)
• Enabled CI for test automation: automated runs on review/merge, reporting via Xray
• Introduced accessibility and performance checks and established them in reporting
• Served as QA lead in daily operations with stand-ups, Kanban progress tracking, prioritization, and targeted task distribution
• Handled defect triage and stakeholder communication with daily triage, QA status analysis, and actionable recommendations
• Developed and maintained a stable regression suite for CRM/Salesforce flows (UI/E2E and near-API validations)
• Integrated CI/CD using Jenkins pipelines with Groovy (IaC)
• Maintained QA documentation, test conventions, and processes in Confluence, aligned across the team
• Conducted Salesforce Einstein chatbot testing with intent/topic validation and output checks, and used Robot Framework/Python suites for continuous quality monitoring
• Technology stack: Jira, Xray, Confluence, Jenkins, Groovy, Git, Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript, Postman, REST, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Lighthouse, Evinced, Scrum/Kanban, BDD (Gherkin)

• Architected enterprise AI strategy delivering 25% cost reduction through multi-LLM platform integration (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini) with intelligent routing and fallback optimization
• Drove operational excellence achieving 85% reduction in manual documentation and 3x faster campaign production through AI workflow automation and agent deployment across Slack and Microsoft Teams
• Established AI governance framework from ground up, implementing EU AI Act compliance, data redaction protocols, and safety filters aligned with DPIA standards
• Scaled AI adoption through structured onboarding programs, developing departmental workflows with secure access controls and comprehensive audit trails
• Implemented advanced RAG systems using Elasticsearch, Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry to improve knowledge access and output reliability
• Managed delivery through OKR framework coordinating cross-functional squads across 6-week project cycles to ensure strategic alignment and measurable results

• Setup of a new Data Warehouse (Budget ~€15M 2025 – 2026)
• Backend modernization project (Budget ~€5M 2025 – 2026)
• Standard software rollout with custom programming (Budget ~€9M 2025 – 2026)

• Migrated infrastructure automation from Puppet to Ansible
• Ensured compatibility with CentOS and RHEL 8 and 9
• Managed users in Active Directory
• Managed applications, services, security policies, certificates, and more

• Implementing a real-time procedural 3D/AR eyelash configurator using Three.js and MediaPipe
• Building a full-stack web application with React.js and Python
• Consulting on app and web development

• All services are tailored and flexible to meet customer needs
• High-quality and comprehensive QA services
• Guidance and support to ensure compliance with all GCP, ICH, GDPR, and other regulatory requirements
• Preparation and advice to ensure inspection readiness of clinical trials, involved personnel and related processes
• Audits of processes and systems relevant to the successful conduct of clinical trials
• Provision of outsourced data protection officer (DPO) services

• I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
• The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
• Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
• Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
• Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.

• Architecture and development of enterprise React 19 based documentation platform for automotive software systems
• Full-stack implementation of visualization tools & interactive diagram viewers
• Performance optimization initiatives including virtual rendering for 10,000+ node trees and Web Worker-based search functionality
• Designed and implemented modular plugin architecture enabling extensible document rendering system
• Technical consultation on Git-based architecture-as-code workflows and modern design patterns
• Ownership of critical features from design through deployment, collaborating with cross-functional enterprise teams

• Developing the required views and KPIs in collaboration with the different departments and management
• Preparing and modeling the various data sources
• Implementing the company-wide and cross-department dashboard in Microsoft Power BI

• Tech stack: Flutter/Dart, Unity3D, React, NextJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SASS, SCSS, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Ollama, llama.cpp, LangChain, MCP, RAG, n8n, Node-Red, PlatformIO, Arduino, ESP, C, C++, Python/Django, NodeJS, C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, MongoDB, AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Postman, REST, WebSocket, Figma, Penpot, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, VS Code, Android Studio, Visual Studio, Unity3D, Jira, Confluence, Traefik, Rclone, Authentik, pfSense, Cloudflare, Proxmox, MQTT

• Previous projects:

• n8n automation that reads incoming emails from an Office mailbox and routes them to stakeholders

• FastMCP 2 server exposing internal services via REST API to an LLM

• Terraform migration of cloud infrastructure with Azure VMs, network, blob, storage and cloud-init

• Azure Pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and artifact management

• Terraform, Ansible, Cloudflare Tunnel integration with Docker container provisioning and backups

• GitHub Actions CI/CD for Flutter app builds, testing, automated screenshots, and App Store deployment

• Flutter app with SSO, local database, backend integration, BLE synchronization

• GCP setup with Cloud DNS, App Engine, Cloud SQL

• AWS environment with EC2, S3, Route 53, ECS

• Workshops delivered on Docker, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Cloudflare, DevOps, modern software development practices

• Backend development with Python Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, MQTT

• SSO identity provider with OIDC, OAuth, LDAP, Cloudflare Tunnels, Authentik