Career Profile
I am a Cloud Software Architect with over 10 years of experience in IT consulting and software development. Following my time as a dual student at SAP, I spent 5 years as an SAP HANA Analytics consultant. While working on Analytics consulting projects, I also created and led the development of a HANA-native SaaS solution. Based on this experience, I ultimately decided to switch tracks and join the Solution Development team 6 years ago. Since then, I've established and led a Cloud solution development team that I've grown to over 25 professionals specializing in DevOps, frontend, and backend development. Throughout various software development projects, I've fulfilled multiple leadership roles including Stream Lead, Solution Architect, Project Lead, and Product Owner.
Experiences
Cloud Solution Architect and part of project management team, creating a suite of SaaS solutions; Team Lead of the newly established Competence Center for Cloud Technologies, overseeing DevOps, User Interface, and Backend development teams (scaling to 25 professionals); Directly responsible for implementing IT security protocols and ensuring compliance with certification requirements (including successful ISO 27001 certification)
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- End-to-end design, implementation and introduction of Release Management process, both organizationally and technically (CI/CD)
- End-to-end design, implementation and introduction of Acceptance testing platform using on-demand test-environments
- Design and development of a data integration service
Several consulting projects involving SAP HANA native Analytics, S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, SAP BW on HANA and ABAP development; Concurrently served as Product Owner and Lead Developer of a SaaS solution on SAP BTP Cloud Foundry, managing a team of 6 developers; Actively engaged in presales activities, trade fairs presentations and recruiting initiatives; Co-authored several technical articles and industry publications
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- Designed, developed and implemented Camelot Segment & Strategize at a customer together with a team of developers
- Implemented part of the SAP S/4HANA Embedded analytics content standard in a consulting project
- Co-authored two books (see publications)
Supporting roles in various departments, including SAP BW development and SAP HANA Product Management.
Publications
Co-author of the following books:
Reporting und Analyse mit SAP
SAP Press / Rheinwerk Verlag, 2018 Co-authors: Thorben Hügens, Alexander Schneider, Marcel Stefanski
SAP BW auf SAP HANA
SAP Press / Rheinwerk Verlag, 2015 English edition: „Implementing SAP BW on SAP HANA“, SAP Press / Rheinwerk Verlag, 2015
Co-authors: Thorben Hügens, Matthias Merz