(Interim) CTO / Tech Advisor

Chief Technology Officer, DeepSkill GmbH

Building an edu-tech platform to humanize work and unlock the power of emotional intelligence in business by developing tech-enabled coaching and training programs.

• Software
• Dev-Ops
• Cloud
• Architecture
• Tech Team

Founder & CEO, habibits UG (haftungsbeschänkt)

habibits is a service that enables the user to identify, analyze and track personal habits and behaviour patterns. It helps the user to efficiently improve his/her well-being by tracking habits and moods.

• Startup
• Habit Change
• Health

Chief Technology Officer, Statista GmbH

Grew the IT department of Statista from two people to approx. 75 in 2021, also internationally.

Direct lead for 15 engineering managers and lead developers. Line-Management for five teams:

• Platform Development (PHP)
• Tools Development (C#, .NET)
• Backend (PHP & Java)
• System Administration / Helpdesk
• Dev-Ops (On-Premises & Cloud)

Refactoring of the complete software architecture and code as well as migration of the server infrastructure to AWS.

Established and fostered DevOps culture.

Developed new processes and practices to drive team performance, established deployment processes, code reviews and unit testing to improve collaboration, security and quality standards.

Architecting and protoyping the Statista data platform and data pipelines.

Established hiring processes and cross-functional team structures.

Member of the extended executive committee.

Responsibility for company-wide IT budget.

IT-Consultant

Systems Architecture, Development, Consulting and Project Management for various clients and projects:

• Statista
• e-tracker
• traffiQ
• dr. straetmans

Conception, technical project lead and development of web platforms and prototypes. Conception and realization of data mining concepts

Web Development of web applications in PHP/mySQL. Technical team lead of five team members

Web Specialist, Google

Developed backend systems and APIs for the integration of services into the Google infrastructure mainly for the mobile team.

I was responsible for the design and programming of web applications and interfaces and white label platforms (customers: T-Mobile, MTV, Vodafone, Buongiorno, Zed etc.)

Developed various websites (e.g. Löwenbräu, Löwensenf, Kino Mond & Sterne) in PHP/MySQL

Focuses: interactive multimedia systems, Video & Computer Animation, business economics and marketing.

Graduated as Diplom-Informatiker (FH)

Diploma thesis about "Online Filesharing systems", published by VDM Verlag, May 2008

Major courses: Electrical Engineering, English, Chemical Engineering