Kibana Experts in Berlin

• 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.

OpsWorker turns Kubernetes alerts into root-cause analyses, on top of the monitoring a team already runs. I lead the technical side: the agent architecture, the AWS infrastructure it runs on (fully inside EU regions), and the engineering decisions behind it, read-only in the cluster by default, human in the loop for judgment. The stack underneath: Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, agents built with the Strands Agents SDK, the Claude and OpenAI APIs, and the Kubernetes API.

• Too Good To Throw (AI powered social impact webapp focused on reducing food waste in Nigeria):

• Integrated Paystack Split Payments to automatically route payments between the platform and partner vendors.

• Configured automated subaccount creation workflows so new businesses get a settlement account instantly.

• Setup a scalable cloud backend using Supabase.

• Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Users, Partners, and Admin.

• FaithFlow (AI powered webapp supporting Christian teens on their spiritual journey):

• Designed and implemented an AI-driven scripture search engine that interprets natural language questions and maps them to relevant Bible texts, commentary, devotionals, and cross-references.

• Designed a spiritual growth dashboard enabling users to track reading progress, prayer streaks, and devotional completion milestones.

• Led stakeholder management, reported to the CPO, and partnered with engineering to ship CMS improvements, including user support, bug resolution, user interviews, market research, and competitor analysis.
• Drove Agile/Scrum ceremonies and roadmap planning, contributing to product vision, discovery, and strategic decision-making; created feature documentation, collaborated with developers, and led CMS QA, functional testing, automated testing, and UAT.
• Owned roadmap and prioritization using funnel analysis and commercial impact assessments; executed hypothesis-driven experiment loops to improve conversion and CTR.
• Managed product development of the couponing CMS, supporting issue resolution and assisting users with shop, coupon, campaign, gift card, and affiliate network deeplink setup; integrated AI technologies.
• Created scalable processes, SOPs, and workflows to standardize CMS usage across markets, reducing support tickets; spearheaded the Autopilot project to fetch deals and coupons via automation and AI.
• Drove CX improvements across coupon and gift card features for Condé Nast (WIRED, CN Traveller, Glamour), LA Times, and GQ; achieved a 10% increase in clickout conversion rate, a 19% increase in CTR, and a 16% reduction in drop-off at the coupon copy step.

• Supported the company's transition from an on-premise architecture to AWS cloud services, modernizing infrastructure and optimizing operational efficiency.
• Leveraged expertise in automation and software implementation to enhance scalability, reliability and profitability.
• Implemented Poetry and Ruff to streamline Python dependency management and code quality checks, improving development efficiency and reducing errors.
• Implemented an automated CI/CD strategy with GitHub Actions, which decreased deployment times and minimized manual intervention.
• Enforced deployment automation for Kubernetes, enhancing the scalability and reliability of applications across the organization.
• Evaluated and implemented Apache Airflow for workflow management, leading to more efficient scheduling and monitoring of data pipelines.
• Created data interfaces for energy traders, enabling them to optimize profit margins through improved data analysis and decision-making tools.

• Refactored the mobile app by reimplementing stores, models, API client, screens and components using Typescript
• Added performant on-device storage for stores as preparation for offline mode
• Integrated RNUILib to achieve a minimal and modern UI design quickly
• Implemented native packages to provide additional features such as displaying of caller IDs
• Planned feature development and UX improvements following initial refactoring and redesign

• Developed high-performance APIs for SDK backend on JavaEE Web, iOS, and Android, improving application performance and scalability by 30%.
• Led system design, tech stack planning, and development, ensuring 98% uptime with strong code quality and automated tests.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing release cycle time by 40%.
• Deployed cloud-native applications on AWS EC2 instances, ensuring 99% uptime and optimized performance.
• Delivered clean code with full unit, component, and integration test coverage, reducing defects by 25%.
• Collaborated across engineering, QA, and product teams to deliver secure, reliable solutions.
• Mentored team members, increased development efficiency by 20%, automated routine tasks, and contributed to hiring, growing team capacity by 15%.

• Led the implementation of a critical backend initiative for the offer teasing feature, resulting in a 10% increase in users actively seeking counter offers.
• Contributed to high-impact features such as instant advice, customer ratings, and automatic contract switching, leading to increased user engagement and conversion rates.
• Built a gRPC service to integrate internal systems with the ERP platform, improving the reliability and observability of data exchange.
• Refactored parts of the legacy Ruby codebase into a more maintainable and scalable Elixir-based architecture.
• Delivered a greenfield project from concept to production on a new stack, integrating with internal services and managing infrastructure setup and deployment.
• Collaborated closely with the front-end team, product managers, and cross-functional team members to ensure the seamless integration of backend features, fostering effective communication and collaboration across disciplines.
• Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, Cognito, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Terraform, Helm, Docker, CI/CD, Grafana, Prometheus, Git, Agile Methodology.

• Freelance software engineer focusing on backend (Python/Django) and frontend (VueJS).

• Developed and maintained backend services for Q8's Digital Cards and Mobility Platform in Java and Spring Boot.
• Designed scalable, multi-tenant microservices with API-first principles using Swagger.
• Implemented asynchronous messaging with Apache ActiveMQ to decouple services and improve resilience.
• Managed multi-tenant architecture with data isolation and configurable tenant logic.
• Ensured secure data handling with Spring Security and PostgreSQL, supported by Liquibase version control.
• Integrated JasperReports for generating PDF reports based on user and business needs.
• Followed Agile practices and implemented thorough unit and integration testing.