Resume

VP of Engineering – Growth Tribe

Currently responsible for SumUp’s MarTech (tracking, attribution, value-based bidding, and content generation through AI), website and shop, onboarding (KYC/KYB), merchant app home screen and web platform
Before, responsible for SumUp’s Point-of-Sale solution helping merchants worldwide to successfully run and grow their business (product catalog, cart & checkout, sales platform, fiscalisation, reporting & insights)
Built up a new tribe “POS Lite”, its culture, team structures, ways of working
Grew cross-functional engineering team from 15 to 30 people (iOS, Android, web, backend, production engineering) across 4 countries
Integrated an acquired company of another 55 people into one tribe of 110 people

01/2022 – today

Director of Engineering – Product and Category Experience

Responsible for the Strategy, the Product Management and the Engineering of Zalando’s central Product Offer Platform that processes up to 50.000 offer updates per second
Leading the Product Experience Engineering, which is responsible for e. g. Zalando’s Product Detail Page
Leading the Category Experience Engineering, responsible for elevated category-specific user experiences for Beauty and Premium
Tripled the throughput of the Product Offer Platform
Built a new department Category Experience from scratch, introduced flexible team structures

12/2017 – 12/2021

Head of Technology B2B & Business Operations; Member of the Product & Technology Board

Jointly responsible with the Head of Product for the success of the ‘B2B’ department, that integrates hundreds of thousands of merchants into idealo’s price comparison platform
Led the software engineering of the ‘B2B’ department
Interim led the ‘Business Operations’ department responsible for billing, CRM and customer care systems (1 year)
Significantly increased data up-to-dateness, scalability, and business steering through building new integrations with the Amazon and eBay marketplaces
Designed and facilitated a participative reorganisation of the whole business unit ‘Product Development’ consisting of 250 employees

01/2014- 11/2017

Managing Consultant

Led the team ‘Enterprise Project Management/Business Process Automation’ in Germany north-east through team building, development of the service offering, and talent management
Implementation of advanced project, program, and portfolio management methodologies and technologies for customers from the tourism, pharmaceutical, transportation infrastructure, and rail vehicle industry

11/2011- 12/2013

Managing Consultant

Project manager and engineer for software development projects: requirements engineering, software design, software development, test, and roll-out for customers from the media and logistics industry and from the public sector
Substantial and commercial creation of proposals ranging into multiple million euros volume
Central project controlling
Execution of project risk audits

08/2007- 10/2011

Working Student

2002-2007

Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrumalliance.org, 2017)
Certified Agile Leader (HR Pioneers, 2016)
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (2013)
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (2009)
Diploma (equals master’s degree) in Computer Sciences (Humboldt University Berlin and Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, 2007)