Experience

Blacklane

• Germany
• Travel Arrangements
• 200 - 300 Employee

• CTO/CPO

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  Berlin, Germany Leading product & engineering @ Blacklane



Flink

• Germany
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• CTO

  • Dec 2021 - Oct 2023

  Berlin, Germany Leading Engineering @ Flink



sennder

• Germany
• Truck Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• CTO/CPO

  • Feb 2020 - Dec 2021

  Berlin Leading product and engineering @ sennder.



ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE

• Germany
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• CTO Joyn (joint venture)

  • Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

  Munich Area, Germany Build the team that launched Joyn within 6 month from scratch.

• CTO Digital Entertainment

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

  Munich Area, Germany



Klarna

• Sweden
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP Engineering

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2017

  Stockholm, Sweden Heading Engineering for Payments, New Business & Engineering Effectiveness group

• Director Engineering Delivery

  • Sep 2015 - Aug 2016

  Heading a team of Deliver Leads accountable for delivering Klarna's cross-team engineering initiatives from inception into production. At the same implementing scaled agile practices and lean product development across 30+ product teams.



Skype

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

  Stockholm, Sweden Calling & Media Service Quality and Engineering Pipeline Leading the seventy+ person test discipline, located in Stockholm, Tallinn and Redmond, that is responsible for the Quality of Skype’s Calling and Media Services, providing call signaling, media relay, media delivery network and media intelligence functionality for Skype’s mobile and desktop apps. The Calling and Media Services Quality team ensures Skype’s 300 Million active users enjoy fast call setup times and a high… Show more Calling & Media Service Quality and Engineering Pipeline Leading the seventy+ person test discipline, located in Stockholm, Tallinn and Redmond, that is responsible for the Quality of Skype’s Calling and Media Services, providing call signaling, media relay, media delivery network and media intelligence functionality for Skype’s mobile and desktop apps. The Calling and Media Services Quality team ensures Skype’s 300 Million active users enjoy fast call setup times and a high fidelity audio and video quality across all desktop and mobile platforms under the most challenging network conditions. The team is also in charge of building Skype’s next generation architecture - moving away from P2P to a cloud based solution. I am also heading the Engineering Pipeline team enabling Scrum teams to deliver features with high cadence, short lead times and at high quality. The Engineering pipeline team is building test services, frameworks, mobile test automation & labs and continuous delivery systems for Azure Services and the Skype mobile and desktop stack. Show less



HERE Technologies

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director - Map Cloud Services - HERE, a Nokia Business

  • Mar 2013 - Jan 2014

  Berlin Area, Germany Lead a cross-functional team including engineering, release management and customer program management (B2B) delivering Nokia’s Map Platform as a Service to web, mobile and enterprise and automotive customers. The team successfully delivered the platform to additional enterprise and automotive grade customers and adopted the services for the Chinese, Korean and Japanese market. The team also migrated all services to AWS and made the move to a Continuous Delivery model to allow frequent updates… Show more Lead a cross-functional team including engineering, release management and customer program management (B2B) delivering Nokia’s Map Platform as a Service to web, mobile and enterprise and automotive customers. The team successfully delivered the platform to additional enterprise and automotive grade customers and adopted the services for the Chinese, Korean and Japanese market. The team also migrated all services to AWS and made the move to a Continuous Delivery model to allow frequent updates of the services and underlying map data while keeping a stelar uptime above 99.9%.

• Head of Map Services Platform - Nokia Location & Commerce

  • Sep 2011 - Mar 2013

  Berlin Built cross-functional team responsible for implementing the Platform as a Service model including engineering, release management and customer program management of Nokia’s Map Platform. The team successfully delivered the platform to additional strategic partners such as Microsoft Bing, Amazon (Kindle family) and Nokia’s cross platform mobile and web apps. The team also expanded the platform to US, Europe, and APAC. This included the physical deployment in DC’s as well as driving the product… Show more Built cross-functional team responsible for implementing the Platform as a Service model including engineering, release management and customer program management of Nokia’s Map Platform. The team successfully delivered the platform to additional strategic partners such as Microsoft Bing, Amazon (Kindle family) and Nokia’s cross platform mobile and web apps. The team also expanded the platform to US, Europe, and APAC. This included the physical deployment in DC’s as well as driving the product adaptation for specific markets across multiple product teams.

• Senior Product Manager - Nokia Location & Commerce

  • Jan 2011 - Sep 2011

  Berlin In charge of delivering the first version of Nokia's Mapping Services to Yahoo and Flickr. Program Managed and transformed the product delivery across multiple scrum teams for the mapping services including routing, geocoding, maps, traffic. Product Owner for the infrastructure appliance hosting the Map Platform globally.

• Senior Manager - Data Cloud Adoption

  • Feb 2009 - Jan 2011

  Berlin Area, Germany Evangelist for Nokia’s internal Data Cloud covering NO-SQL, Caching, Analytics and Search services. Drove the engagement between product teams to adopt and improve the Data Cloud product suite.



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager Technology Consulting - System Integration / Data Centre Technology & Operations

  • Feb 2002 - Jan 2009

  Frankfurt, Prague, Hamburg Worked on various large-scale system integration, software development and infrastructure projects. Delivered business critical systems to customers like NAVTEQ, DHL, Deutsche Bahn and Otto.