Robin Dahl
Chief Technology Officer | Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture & Engineering Leadership
Hamburg
Executive Summary
Chief Technology Officer with a background in engineering leadership, distributed platform architecture, and organizational design for high-scale technology companies. Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary engineering organizations, modernizing enterprise architectures, and aligning technological capabilities directly with commercial expansion goals.
Professional Experience
NordicGrid Logistics Platform
Hamburg, Germany
Chief Technology Officer
Mar 2021 – Present
- Direct the global technology organization of 85 software engineers, infrastructure specialists, and product architects across multi-region logistics operations.
- Spearheaded the migration of legacy dispatch monolithic systems to event-driven microservices on AWS, reducing mean incident response time by 42%.
- Established platform engineering practices and internal developer portals, cutting cycle time from code commit to staging deployment from 4 days to 45 minutes.
- Partner with executive leadership on company-wide capital allocation, managing a 14M Euro technical infrastructure and tooling annual budget.
ElbeFin Technologies
Hamburg, Germany
VP of Engineering
Jun 2017 – Feb 2021
- Led engineering departments comprising 45 engineers delivering cloud-native B2B payment gateway interfaces under BaFin regulatory compliance.
- Architected ISO 27001-certified data pipeline infrastructures handling 120 million monthly transactions with 99.99% availability.
- Instituted structured career ladders, mentoring programs, and cross-functional hiring initiatives that lowered annual team attrition to under 8%.
Engineering Director
Aug 2014 – May 2017
- Managed four squads building real-time fraud scoring engines, integrating automated machine-learning models into transaction workflows.
- Standardized containerization and CI/CD pipelines across payment services, increasing deployment frequency from monthly to twice weekly.
Kieler Data Stream Solutions
Kiel, Germany
Principal Systems Architect
Sept 2011 – Jul 2014
- Built and operated high-throughput telemetry data capture pipelines processing 25,000 events per second for maritime tracking sensors.
- Introduced automated integration testing and infrastructure-as-code patterns, improving test coverage across core messaging pipelines to 88%.
Education
University of Hamburg
Master of Science · Computer Science · Hamburg, Germany · 1.3 · Oct 2007 – Sept 2009
Focused on distributed systems, network security protocols, and scalable data architectures.
University of Bremen
Bachelor of Science · Software Systems Engineering · Bremen, Germany · 1.6 · Oct 2004 – Aug 2007
Coursework emphasized algorithms, database management, and concurrent programming.
Strategic Initiatives
European Data Governance & Infrastructure Modernization
May 2022 – Nov 2023
- Designed and executed a sovereign cloud compliance framework ensuring automated data residency compliance across EU zones.
- Reduced monthly cloud operational expenditure by 28% through reserved instance planning and automated workload autoscaling.
Core Competencies
Distributed Systems Architecture
Cloud Infrastructure Management
Engineering Leadership & Org Design
Platform Engineering
Enterprise IT Budgeting
Information Security & Compliance
Microservices & Event-Driven Systems
Technical Strategy & Governance
Agile Transformation
Vendor & Stakeholder Management
Languages
German
C2
English
C2
Danish
B1
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Web Services · Apr 2024
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance · Nov 2021
Advisory & Community
Hanseatic Tech Incubator
Hamburg, Germany · Jan 2020 – Present
- Technical Advisory Board Member
- Provide ongoing architectural guidance and mentoring to early-stage European climate-tech and logistics software startups.
- Evaluate technical viability and engineering organizational designs for seed and series-A stage venture founders.