Professional Summary
Senior Technical Project Manager with deep engineering foundations and proven success guiding complex distributed software initiatives from discovery through multi-market deployment.
Demonstrated expertise in orchestrating cross-functional engineering teams, modernizing core platforms, and aligning architectural goals with strategic business objectives.
Professional Experience
Veloqis Systems GmbH
Munich, Germany
Senior Technical Project Manager
Apr 2021 – Present
- Direct end-to-end technical delivery for a core SaaS telematics platform across four cross-functional engineering squads totaling 28 engineers.
- Spearheaded migration of legacy monolith components to Kubernetes-managed event-driven microservices, improving deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily.
- Standardized release readiness criteria and automated testing gates, reducing release incident escalations by 42% over an eighteen-month period.
- Align product discovery roadmaps with engineering capacity and technical debt reduction priorities in close collaboration with executive stakeholders.
Aethelgard Software Solutions
Munich, Germany
Technical Project Manager
Sept 2017 – Mar 2021
- Managed execution of multi-tenant enterprise integration projects for European logistics clients with budgets up to 2.2 million euros.
- Facilitated bi-weekly sprint planning, retrospective sessions, and cross-team dependency mapping across distributed European engineering hubs.
- Supervised API modernization initiatives integrating third-party freight telemetry systems, completing rollouts two weeks ahead of committed milestone dates.
- Implemented quantitative sprint predictability metrics using Jira automation, reducing milestone estimation variance from 30% to under 10%.
Nexorion Digital AG
Munich, Germany
Technical Lead & Project Coordinator
Oct 2013 – Aug 2017
- Coordinated delivery schedules and technical specifications for high-throughput REST and GraphQL backend services.
- Transitioned legacy build scripts to continuous integration pipelines on GitLab CI, shortening build feedback cycles by 25 minutes.
- Served as primary technical liaison between product managers and backend developers for core checkout and identity services.
Education
Technical University of Munich
Master of Science · Information Systems · Munich, Germany · 1.4 · Oct 2011 – Sept 2013
Master's thesis on distributed workflow orchestration within enterprise cloud architectures.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Bachelor of Science · Computer Science · Munich, Germany · 1.7 · Oct 2008 – Sept 2011
Core coursework in software engineering, distributed systems, algorithms, and database management.
Key Projects
Unified Identity and Billing Platform Consolidation
Jun 2022 – Apr 2023
- Led cross-departmental technical discovery, vendor selection, and data migration plan for consolidating two parallel billing and entitlement systems into a unified platform.
- Maintained backward compatibility across critical integrations while migrating over 140,000 active customer records with zero unscheduled downtime.
Payment Services Directive Technical Modernization
Feb 2019 – Nov 2019
- Coordinated security compliance and technical readiness assessments to align distributed payment endpoints with revised PSD2 authentication mandates.
- Partnered with compliance officers and software architects to deliver auditable cryptographic logging features ahead of the statutory enforcement window.
Core Competencies
Agile Delivery & Scrum
Cross-Functional Leadership
Cloud Infrastructure & Microservices
CI/CD & Release Governance
API & Systems Architecture
Risk Management & Mitigation
Stakeholder Management
Technical Roadmapping
Jira & Confluence
Dependency Mapping
Languages
German
C2
English
C1
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute · May 2019
Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)
Scrum.org · Feb 2021
Volunteer Experience
Munich Tech Mentorship Circle
Munich, Germany · May 2022 – Present
- Volunteer Technical Mentor
- Advise emerging technical leads and scrum facilitators on cross-functional dependency management, backlog refinement, and technical roadmapping practices.