Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
I am a software engineering manager with 15 years of experience in software engineering, user experience and design, currently working at Strichpunkt Design, where I lead the software engineering team. My focus is on creating reliable and scalable solutions. I combine strong leadership and technical expertise to enable both team development and technological innovation – always driven by the will to improve the status quo.
Leading an international team of 30 internal and external software engineers, quality engineers and agile coaches spread across the globe as part of the Decathlon Digital international organization building an e-commerce platform deployed in 25 countries. Leadership & Management: ► Management and personal development of 6 internal software and quality engineers ► Implementation of Scrum & Kanban ► Establishing software engineering best practices, including DORA metrics, Software Reliability Engineering, and Software Craftsmanship principles. ► Responsibility for team planning based on business requirements, management of the corresponding budget and staffing/hiring ► Coordination of external partners including price negotiation Technical Expertise: ► Design and implementation of a cloud-native architecture with CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid and continuous deployment to GCP ► Adoption of trunk-based development and the creation of deployment pipelines focusing on security, quality, and performance ► Refactoring of the front end architecture to accelerate performance, improve developer experience and comply with accessibility (a11y) requirements ► Refactoring of the back end implementation to reduce resource usage and boost response times.
Led a software engineering team of 15 internal and external software engineers and agile coaches as part of the e-commerce department to establish state of the art workflows and delivery cycles. Leadership & Management: ► Management and personal development of 8 internal software engineers, designers, and agile coaches ► Process scaling by implementation of LeSS framework ► Responsibility for team planning based on business requirements, management of the corresponding budget and staffing/hiring ► Coordination of external partners including price negotiation Technical Expertise: ► Responsibility for handling the deployment of new versions of the e-commerce platform while ensuring compatibility with the local features ► Driving growth by designing an innovative new search engine merging search patterns with the classical menu navigation and end to end integration of a personalization engine
Led a user experience team of 12 experts as part of the e-commerce department to increase velocity of product development. Leadership & Management: ► Management and personal development of 6 internal analysts, product owners and software engineers ► Implementation of Scrum ► Coordination of external partners including benchmarking, selection and onboarding ► Stakeholder management to align business requirements and technical feasibility Technical Expertise: ► Responsibility for building features based on needs for the local German market on top of a global e-commerce platform. ► Responsibility of handling the deployment of new versions of the e-commerce platform while ensuring compatibility with the local features. ► Responsibility for defining user tests and A/B testing strategy framework
Led a design team as part of the national communications department. Leadership & Management: ► Management and personal development of 2 web and graphic designers Technical Expertise: ► Responsibility for corporate identity compliance on national level ► Coordination of external partners for campaigns creatives creation