Hudson Experts in Germany

• Modernization of a large-scale Java enterprise application*

The project is modernizing a complex enterprise application that has grown over many years. The existing Spring-based legacy system runs on Java 8, OSGi, and Eclipse RCP and is being gradually migrated to a modern, maintainable architecture with Java 25 and Quarkus.

Marcus works on analysis, architecture, refactoring, and implementation. One focus is on untangling historically grown structures and dependencies and on building a clean, sustainable Java and Quarkus technology stack.

Tools & technologies: Java 8, Java 25, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM with Panache, EclipseLink, OSGi, Eclipse RCP, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, REST, JSON, Git, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, Jira, Confluence

• Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.

• Last projects:

• Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.

• Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.

• Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.

• Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.

• Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:

• Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.

• Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.

• Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.

• Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.

• Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:

• Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.

• Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.

• Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.

• Implementation of a REST-based web service for querying contract, claims, customer, and sales data as part of the Dialogmanager project.
• Data release is done in compliance with CoC requirements and individual user permissions from IAM (Identity and Access Management).
• Implementation using JBoss EAP 8.1 (JakartaEE 10) and Java 21 as well as JAX-RS, CDI, Microprofile-Config, Microprofile-OpenAPI.

• End-to-end quality assurance in a global S/4HANA transformation program.

• Automated test data setup, evaluation of search and generation solutions, and PoC execution (K2View, EPI-USE).

• Coordination between Siemens teams and external partners, and structured knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders.

• Created a basis for PoC decisions and sped up tool selection.

• Standardized test data provisioning and noticeably reduced lead times.

• Established governance for test data processes (policies, roles, KPIs).

• Sustainable know-how transfer: empowered internal teams to operate solutions on their own.

• Methods & technologies: S/4HANA, SAP, K2View, EPI-USE, test data management, data masking, data provisioning, test strategy, test management, coaching & enablement, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Office 365, Gemini.

• Developed a comprehensive business concept for a medical fall detection device based on a patented process registered in Germany
• Identified and collected use cases for medical device deployment in residential buildings and healthcare provider facilities
• Expanded the product scope to industry standards such as HL7/FHIR and designed a product based on modern communication protocols for IIoT
• Supported offshoring activities, defined SLA and scope-of-work documents for development teams after selecting various vendors
• Identified and selected hardware components (Terrabee, E-Con Systems) for LIDAR/TDOA functions
• Defined integrated AI features and LLM models for patient fall detection as well as AI-based audio triggers
• Oversaw the implementation of algorithms for object detection, fall detection, and false alarm identification

• Create a product and service portfolio delivering a 360 degree approach to digital corporate sustainability covering KPI management, CSRD reporting and sustainable strategy
• Create vision and business case
• Onboard and align business partners, negotiate contracts
• Set up partner network as self-organized agile team
• Co-develop product and service portfolio
• Coordinate sales and marketing, go-to-market strategy and roadmap

• Further development of framework components and services in the Enterprise Banking Control Platform (EGP Framework), a set of cross-cutting libraries and services for all bounded context scopes of the platform.
• Migration from Java 17 to Java 21 and from Spring Boot 3.2 to 3.4 in about 80 library and service repositories (updating Maven POMs, Dockerfiles, Jenkins pipelines, source code migration, test updates).
• Writing unit and integration tests with JUnit and JGiven.
• Performing and analyzing performance measurements with Dynatrace.
• Enhancing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (unit tests, security analyses, Docker builds, Harbor deployments, ...).
• Tech stack used: Java (90%), Python (10%), Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, JGiven, OpenAPI, Camunda 7, Podman, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Oracle DB, SonarQube, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Harbor, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.

• Central build and delivery for 20+ applications, 100+ pipelines/day, 700+ GitLab projects
• Build pipelines for Go, Java and JavaScript
• Provisioning of 100+ components
• Quality assurance via GitLab Code Quality and SonarQube
• Checks for dependencies, licensing and vulnerabilities
• Release creation via Jira and ServiceNow
• SBOM, Supply Chain Security, distroless images
• PoC GitLab Runner: Nomad vs. Kubernetes
• Technologies: Artifactory, buildah, GitLab Premium, Go, Gradle, Jenkins, Mend, Podman

• Design, development and maintenance of a web application as a policy management system based on a JEE backend and a Vaadin-based UI
• Design and development of interfaces
• Integration of databases
• Design and development of unit and integration tests
• Conceptual coordination with the client
• Technologies and methods: JEE, Vaadin, EJB, Innovator, Hibernate, REST, JMS, SQL, MQ, Maven, Selenium, Arquillian, Mockito, JUnit, Log4j, OOA, OOD, Scrum, Kanban, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipelines, Git, GitLab, Subversion, Jira, Confluence, DB2, WebLogic

• Architecture and development of enterprise-level Salesforce solutions, including process automation, integrations, and Lightning components.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to optimize CRM architecture and data models.
• Tools & technologies: Salesforce, Apex, LWC, SOQL, Flows, REST APIs, Git, VS Code.

• Created interface programs between mainframe and distributed online screens
• Modified and created batch programs for daily data processing
• Provided advice on program setup, database structures, and programming tools
• Performed error analysis for the overall project
• System: OS/390, ISPF, TSO, IMS DB, IMS Connect, COBOL, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, IBM debug tool, Confluence, Jira, Eclipse, Rational Developer for Z Systems (RDZ)

• Implementation of a Java service (daemon) as part of the automated processing of death notifications

• Technologies used: Java17, SpringBoot, Hexagonal Architecture, REST API, Oracle, Maven, SonarQube, FindBugs, Checkstyle

• Further development and creation of data flows for health insurance providers
• Data management across various storage systems (DB2, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, S3, custom APIs, ...)
• Documentation and training
• Planning and deployment of NiFi 2.x (major upgrade)
• Integrating Grafana for visualization, monitoring, and alerting
• Extensive use of the NiFi API to continuously monitor the system and its components

• Design, development, and monitoring of microservices
• Migrating functions from a monolithic system into separate microservices
• Designing and implementing new microservices (backend and frontend)
• Setting up and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions)
• Configuring cloud infrastructure with AWS CDK and Terraform
• Designing and implementing event-driven communication with AWS SNS/SQS and Apache Kafka
• Ensuring code quality through Test Driven Development (TDD), static code analysis, and Clean Code