Arvid Ottenberg

Bobster @ 👁️ 🐝 Ⓜ️

Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

About

Software Engineering | Cloud Computing | DevOps | Agile Methodologies | Internet of Things | Intelligent Assistants

Experience

  • IBM (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Product Manager
      Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

      - Own end-to-end product roadmap for IBM Bob, driving the vision of building the best agentic SDLC partner for enterprise users. - Drive adoption of IBM Bob both inside IBM and in the market. - Product vision and roadmap execution towards delivering measurable client value. - Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Sales, Executives of the business unit on strategic direction and go-to-market.

    • Senior Software Architect Artificial Intelligence
      Jan 2026 - Apr 2026 · 4 mos

      - Joined IBM Bob ahead of product launch — deliberately chose to first contribute as architect and engineer to build deep technical fluency in the product before stepping into the PM seat. - Contributed to the productization of different Bob components as architect and hands-on software engineer. - Acted as the bridge between Development and Product — translating customer and sales input into roadmap priorities, working with engineering leads, PMs and IBM executives.

    • Senior Advisory Architect & Senior Managing Consultant
      Jul 2025 - Jan 2026 · 7 mos

      - Offering Champion for AWS AI across IBM's Hybrid Cloud & Data service line — owned go-to-market for AWS AI offerings, drove sales pipeline, enabled consultants, and provided technical leadership. - Lead Architect for the Daimler Trucks after-sales IT program — designed and scaled a large microservices architecture on AWS Kubernetes, leading a program of multiple software engineering teams (~50 consultants) to implement new after-sales application suite. - Delivered the global rollout of new after-sales application suite to 5,000 retailers worldwide — zero downtime, with significantly higher user acceptance than the legacy solution. - Introduced agentic AI into program delivery and drove team-wide adoption of agentic coding tools (IBM Consulting Advantage, GitHub Copilot) and new ways of working. - Build proof-of-concepts to introduce agentic AI into the new after-sales solution. - Mentored and coached senior developers into team lead and architect roles.

  • Advisory Board Member (AI & Automation) at SCIRCLE
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    - Advise C-level leadership of an early-stage (seed) startup democratizing fragrance creation through the first user-generated fragrance platform. - Focus areas: Enterprise AI and agentic architecture, AI technical strategy, the conversational fragrance-building product. - Work closely with the CEO, CTO, and fellow advisory board members on a recurring cadence.

  • Bauer Media Group (Hamburg, Germany)
    • Software Developer
      Mar 2018 - May 2018 · 3 mos

    • Corporate Student
      Aug 2014 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Tutor “Introduction to Object-oriented programming (OOP)” at Fachhochschule Nordakademie Elmshorn
    Aug 2017 - Oct 2017 · 3 mos

  • Working Student at Philips
    Apr 2014 - Aug 2014 · 5 mos