Waldemar Hummer

Co-Founder and CTO at LocalStack (We're hiring!)

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

About

Highlights: * Experienced tech lead and manager with 10+ years of software engineering & management experience * Built large-scale, globally distributed systems (SaaS products, as well as data analytics platforms) * Led engineering organizations of 40+ FTEs For more information, please see my personal website at http://hummer.io

Experience

  • Co-Founder and CTO/Co-CEO at LocalStack
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Building the world-leading DevOps platform for developing modern Cloud & AI apps https://localstack.cloud

  • Head of Engineering at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
    Mar 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

    * Driving and shaping the overall engineering strategy for an organization of 300+ employees * Managing and growing the Engineering department of 40+ internal and external engineers (manager of managers; several high-performing scrum teams) * Shaping the technical roadmap, guiding and facilitating the teams in building scalable Cloud platforms for API management, microservices/containerization, event streaming, workflow automation, and AI/ML/robotics

  • CTO / VP of Engineering at Advanon AG
    Feb 2019 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Leading the Engineering department of a leading Swiss FinTech company in the SME lending space. Spearheaded the technology transformation of the platform that led to successful acquisition by CreditGate24.

  • Cloud/AI Tech Lead & Architect at IBM
    Sep 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

    * Leading a team developing IBMs next-generation AI Cloud platform * Built the cloud backend for scalable deep learning in Watson Machine Learning (Watson Studio) * Project owner of ModelOps, a platform that supports the end-to-end lifecycle of AI models

  • Atlassian (Greater Sydney Area)
    • Development Team Lead
      Feb 2017 - Aug 2017 · 7 mos

      Software Development Team Lead in JIRA

    • Senior Lead Developer (Analytics & Integration Team)
      Feb 2016 - Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

      * Leading the design and implementation of a real time stream processing platform for critical company data * Continuous optimization of Atlassian's Big Data query environment (Hadoop/Hive/Presto) * Active contributor and maintainer of various open source projects