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• 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.

• AI automation roadmap for a D2C/B2B e-commerce company.
• Customer service bot with RAG over support tickets and product data, OCR pipeline for incoming invoices with writeback to Business Central, lead gen and posting automation.
• Deterministic n8n workflows with EU-hosted models.
• n8n, RAG / Mistral, Qwen/BGE embeddings / Business Central API, HubSpot, Shopify / Scaleway, S3 / Claude Code, OpenCode.

• Develop AWS-based components connecting Python backend services to React/TypeScript frontends.
• Improve database queries and application workflows for document processing and screening.
• Evaluate LLM retrieval and document-review workflows as part of the product stack.

• Design and implementation of new functionalities in the areas of Lifecycle Management (LCM), Role Management (RLM) and Access Governance

• Adjustment of the company-wide Segregation of Duties (SoD) matrix to ensure regulatory and internal compliance requirements

• Further development and configuration of recertification processes

• Creation and adaptation of custom workflows, rules and tasks in SailPoint IdentityIQ (BeanShell, XML, Java)

• Use of static code analysis with SonarQube to ensure code quality and compliance with defined development standards

• Regular code reviews within the development team to ensure quality, share knowledge and follow clean code principles

• Work in an agile Scrum team with daily communication, sprint planning and reviews

• Coordination with testers, test managers and business departments to ensure quality and smooth production rollout

• Active involvement in release planning and deployment coordination, including test preparation, cutover activities and rollback strategies

• Analysis and sustainable resolution of issues in the IAM production environment (2nd- and 3rd-level support)

• Reproduction of complex errors, identification of root causes and implementation of lasting fixes

• Creation of technical analyses and recommendations for operations and further development

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.

• Migrating from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization, 40+ workstreams / projects in parallel (Small- to Medium Sized VM Operators / Critical Factory Workload Owners / Large-Scale Data Center Operators)

• Incident analysis and troubleshooting
• Process improvements in collaboration with the business teams
• Joint design and implementation of requirements with the business department and architecture
• Planning and execution of quality management

• Development of a charging station for electric vehicles
• Tools: C/C++/Matlab/Simulink
• Development and testing of functional software with various communication buses

WFC is a web-based application and allows extensions in the form of TypeScript libraries.

• Programming and scripting languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, ControlScript from WinCC OA

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

Delivered a digital, non-profit neighborhood platform to connect older adults with volunteers for practical support and social companionship. Responsible for business analysis, requirement definition, platform evaluation and delivery of a locally scalable service solution focusing on AI-driven enhancements, data-based optimization and clear market positioning. Evaluated several low-code/business platforms including Odoo and Glide Apps and assessed monday.com as a CRM-like option before selecting Glide Apps for implementation. Implemented a non-native mobile and desktop application with Glide Apps and the web presence with WordPress. Tasks

• Gathering, analyzing and structuring business requirements for the product and service model
• Conducting market, target group and competitor analyses to position the offering
• Evaluating and selecting suitable low-code/business platforms for implementation
• Defining core user journeys, business processes and operational workflows for older adults, volunteers and administration
• Translating business requirements into functional requirements for profiles, task management, coordination, communication and notifications
• Guiding the implementation of the non-native mobile and desktop application in Glide Apps as well as the web presence in WordPress
• Preparing the business side for future AI-powered features such as intelligent matching and data-based optimization
• Ensuring compliance with GDPR requirements Results
• Successfully delivered digital support platform connecting older adults with volunteers
• Solid foundation for market positioning through market, target group and competitor analyses
• Delivered a functional non-native mobile and desktop application with Glide Apps and a supporting web presence with WordPress
• Established foundation for scaling and AI-based further development

• Lead software architect in a greenfield MES project (Manufacturing Execution System / factory control system), responsible for architecture decisions, technology selection, and technical direction throughout the entire development lifecycle
• Designed and built the core framework from scratch, including several reusable Spring Boot starters (e.g., OPC-UA integration, messaging, security) that enable flexible composition of the individual system modules
• Introduced Keycloak as the central authentication and authorization system with SSO across all MES components
• Created and owns the full CI/CD pipeline covering Java, NPM and Docker – automating build, test, containerisation and deployment across all project components
• Set up the architecture documentation space in Confluence as the single source of truth for all architecture decisions, component designs, and integration patterns
• Defined and enforced naming conventions and coding standards to ensure consistency in the growing codebase
• Conducted regular code reviews for quality assurance, knowledge sharing, and adherence to architecture guidelines
• Created and maintained technology roadmaps to guide future development priorities and infrastructure investments

• Planning and implementation of IT infrastructures for clients
• Automating deployments with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK
• Monitoring and optimizing cloud environments and the entire IT infrastructure
• Providing technical support and troubleshooting infrastructure issues
• Collaborating with development teams on CI/CD processes