Toni

I was hired by the General Manager to steer the struggling but commercially successful organization towards a modern technology organization.

The biggest challenge is the success of this company. The digital product is successful but the technological foundation lacks any ability to move. The ability to deliver value, yet even responding to security events is non-existend.

Within two years the goal is to turn the technology organization around.

Core responsibilities

• Building a modern software organization
• Migrating all CI/CD processes to GitHub
• Establishing a DevOps mindset across the technology organization
• Enabling development teams through streamlined processes
• Managing stakeholders in integration and delivery workflows

Key Achievements

• Successfully led the organizational and technical migration of the entire technology organization (50+ projects) from GitLab to GitHub
• Trained staff in workflows and process optimization across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Tools and technology:

Gitlab (On-Prem), Github, GIT, CI/CD, Deployment Automation, SBOM, CycloneDX, Gradle, Maven, Google Cloud Platform, Java 8, Java 21 (software-migration), Apache Tomcat, JakartaEE, Wildfly, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, SOPS (Secrets Management), Open Telemetry, Datadog APM

I was hired by the founding team of this startup to help govern their technical platform towards potential investors and customers. This engagement was a facilitating engagement.

Core Responsibilities

• Assessment of the tech organization (Technical Due Diligence)

• Building a modern software organization from the ground up

Consulting and mentoring a young team in establishing team structures, processes, and stakeholder management

• Designing a release and deployment process (CI/CD, IaC, Observability) for a multi-tenant cloud environment

• Software architecture for an Azure-based microservice landscape

Key Achievements

• Successfully passed technical due diligence, leading to a successful acquisition

• Migration of the development workflow from Bitbucket to GitHub

• Transition of deployment infrastructure from hybrid to Azure

• Design and implementation of multi-tenancy architecture and blueprintsToolsAzure Cloud (Azure AI Studio etc.), GitHub, Bitbucket, GIT,CI/CD, SBOM, CycloneDX, Power BI, .Net, Python, Langfuse, Miro, LLM, RAG, Agentic LLMs, GenAI, OpenAI API, Anthropic API

I was part of the “Tiger Team” or more meaningful: “Performance Team”.

Our customers in the public sector lacked knowledge and visibility into a complex IT landscape.

The Tiger Team created insights, led workshops and provided custom tooling (e.g. Grafana Dashboards) incl. data aggregation and transformation.

Core Responsibilities

• Facilitating communication between development teams and the public-sector client (serving as primary point of contact)
• Designing and implementing a modern observability solution based on Instana
• Modernizing the technology stack within the SDLC (GitLab, DevSecOps)
• Stakeholder management across various public-sector end clients
• Standardizing communication and documentation of business processes (BPMN, DMN)

Key Achievements

• Established a new performance team bridging the gap between customer and public-sector client
• Rolled out APM solutions including Instana, Prometheus, and Grafana within the public-sector organization
• Led workshops on observability topics (situational awareness and alerting systems)

Tools and TechnologiesOpenShift, APM Instana, Alfresco, Java 11, Weblogic, Python3, Streamlit, Instana (OSGi, Karaf), Prometheus, Grafana, ULS, CheckMK, REST,  gRPC, SOAP, TimescaleDB, Issuemanagement mit Jira, RTC, Eclipse RPC (OSGi), Gitlab Pipelines, GIT, CI/CD, Deployment Automation