Description

Senior Product Owner and Senior Technical Program Manager (MBA) with 15 years delivering complex, regulatedplatforms end to end in major German enterprises (Porsche, Mercedes-Benz Bank, Daimler Mobility, Unzer, Fiducia & GADIT). I own the arc from business case and technology assessment through architecture, SDLC, and vendor steering toaudit-grade production rollout at scale. I combine hands-on engineering depth (Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud)with program-level governance (BaFin, BAIT, MaRisk, ISO 27001, GDPR, IKS), multi-million-euro budget ownership, andexecutive-level stakeholder management. Trilingual at C2 (French native, German, English).

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual
German
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Mannheim (up to 50km), Frankfurt am Main (up to 50km), München (up to 50km)

Porsche AG
Senior Product Owner
November 2023 - Today (2 years and 8 months)
Stuttgart, Germany
Own Porsche's enterprise Atlassian collaboration and CI/CD toolchain for 20,000 internal and external users across 4 on prem instances. Mandate: hold platform stability and security while preparing migration to Atlassian Cloud SaaS. Budget steered: €2–3M per year. Vendor portfolio: 2 to 10 providers. Indirect PO leadership of a 7 to 10 person service-provider team (matrix model). Rationalized the plugin footprint from 55 to 30 across 4 on-prem instances, delivering ~€120k annualized cost
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Governance, Risk and Compliance Product management Stakeholdermanagement Agile Softwareentwicklung Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Daimler Mobility AG
Tech Lead → Lead Software Developer
March 2019 - October 2020 (1 year and 7 months)
Stuttgart, Germany
Technical leadership of a pay-how-you-drive telematics insurance product for Mercedes-Benz vehicles, owned by DaimlerMobility, covering 10,000+ connected vehicles across 12 European markets. Team: 3 internal Stuttgart-baseddevelopers.Architected and led the monolith → microservices migration (Java Spring Boot and Micronaut, Kubernetes on hybridcloudOpenShift), including API ecosystem design.Introduced TDD with 90% SonarQube coverage quality gate as a required merge criterion. Cut API response time by ~40% (internal benchmark) via systematic refactor of legacy endpoints.Shifted delivery cadence from a fixed release train to on-demand deployment, raising production deployment frequency. Removed material tech debt via structured codebase audits and team-wide refactor sprints. Mentored 3 junior developers through code review and pair programming; 2 advanced to senior level during my tenure.
Digital Transformation Leadership Stakeholdermanagement CI/CD Change Management & Transformation Governance, Risk and Compliance
Mercedes-Benz Bank AG
Senior Technical Program Manager (promoted from Product Owner)
October 2020 - October 2023 (3 years)
70 Stuttgart, Germany
Mandate: close a BaFin 2019 F1 audit finding on the lack of a unified, auditable software development toolchain at MBB. Built the regulatory-compliant BizDevSecOps platform covering the full SDLC under BAIT 7. Budget: €5M over 3 years. Team: 2 internal + 7 external engineers. Internal customer base: ~50 developers. Started as Product Owner (6 months). Promoted to Senior Technical Program Manager after supervisor unavailability; took over stakeholder management, procurement, vendor contracts, steering committee representation, and program budget. Delivered a unified, auditable BizDevSecOps toolchain (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Teamscale, Jira,
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• • cloud OpenShift), including API ecosystem design. Introduced TDD with 90% SonarQube coverage quality gate as a required merge criterion. Cut API response time by ~40% (internal benchmark) via systematic refactor of legacy endpoints. Shifted delivery cadence from a fixed release train to on-demand deployment, raising production deployment frequency. Removed material tech debt via structured codebase audits and team-wide refactor sprints. Mentored 3 junior developers through code review and pair programming; 2 advanced to senior level during my tenure.