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I am a Senior Platform / Product Lead with a strong hands-on background, combining technology, product thinking, and organization. My focus is on Internal Development Platforms, Platform Engineering, SRE, Developer Experience, and Cloud Platforms (AWS).
What makes me special:
I don't just work on a conceptual level; I deliver actionable solutions that work in reality – from target state & governance to architecture & tooling, and on to KPIs, adoption, and operational management. I consistently think from the perspective of the developer journey and translate strategy into paved roads, sensible defaults, and clear responsibilities.
Examples:
- Building or realigning Internal Platforms / Platform Engineering Teams
- Measurability of TECH (DORA, Observability, Products)
- Introduction of Golden Paths / Paved Roads (CI/CD, Cloud Accounts, Observability, Security)
- Developer Experience & Enablement (Backstage, Self-Service, Onboarding)
- Transition from operational & project-oriented to product-oriented platform teams
German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Basic
Spanish
Basic
Can work on-site
München (up to 50km)
Experience
- OTTOC-Level Advisor - Technical Excellence & Strategy Internal Dev. PlatformE-COMMERCEJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 7 months)Hamburg, GermanyAdvising C-level executives and technical leadership on platform strategy, technical excellence, KPI frameworks, and company-wide transformation initiatives.■ Advising C-level & Tech Leadership on platform strategy and organizational development■ Co-developing a company-wide KPI framework (Delivery, Quality, Security, Reliability, Governance)■ Supporting strategic alignment between Platform, SRE, and Tech Strategy■ Moderating stakeholder groups and governance decisions■ Empowering leaders to steer technical excellence through clearly defined metrics
- OTTOProject Lead for Internal Dev. Platform (IDP, SRE & Developer Experience)E-COMMERCEOctober 2023 - Today (2 years and 10 months)Hamburg, GermanyLeading complex platform, SRE, and developer experience initiatives in one of Germany's largest e-commerce companies. Focus on technical excellence, domain structure, developer productivity, and strategic transformation of the Internal Development Platform.■ Leading the Internal Development Platform Discovery (with Thoughtworks) including MVP concept■ Building a department-wide KPI framework for SRE, Internal Platform■ Conception of the End-to-End Developer Journey and the Golden Path (Frontend, Backend, Onboarding) Mapping of all central platform products to identify gaps and redundancies Defining new functional domains including common goals, KPIs, and responsibilities Introduction and establishment of modern PO methods (ICE, DPM3, Roadmaps, ...)Presenting technical strategies and platform concepts to Senior Leadership
- OTTOTechnical Product Owner - Cloud, CI/CD & DeveloperE-COMMERCEOctober 2023 - Today (2 years and 10 months)Hamburg, GermanyProduct responsibility for central cloud, CI/CD, and developer tooling services to support over 50 development teams.■ Product Owner for the AWS Account Factory (IAM, SSO, Base Setup, Guardrails)■ Building and operating GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runners and the Shared CI/CD Actions Library■ Responsible for the Logging/Elastic platform including log ingestion■ Driving the Backstage introduction (Software Catalog, Scorecards, Unified Search)■ Reducing cognitive load through standardized, immediately usable platform services
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Education
- Master of ScienceHochschule Reutlingen - Knowledge Foundation2018Master of Science
- Game Design & Production ManagementAbertay University2016Game Design & Production Management