CurriculumVitae

OlafGeibig

OlafGeibig
Manager,SoftwareDeveloperandSoftwareArchitect

Lottumstr.26
10119Berlin

www.tutaona.com
olaf.geibig@tutaona.com
+491797947434

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ProfileHighlights

LeaderwithexperienceatITcompanies.
Management,softwarearchitecture,OO,JVMtechnologies.
Empathetic,motivating,modern,coachingorientedleadershipstyle.
Richexperiencewithdevelopinghightraffic,multitierwebapplications.
Qualityoriented,testdrivenandagileapproachusinginternationalstandards.
Communicativeteamplayer,technologyenthusiast,lifelonglearning.

ProfessionalDevelopment
12/2015untilnowTechnicalArchitect/LeadatMobilityMediaGmbH(BoschGroup)

Softwarearchitectureandprojectmanagement.
05/2015until11/2015ManageratZalandoSE

Middlemanagement,team,technologicalanddisciplinaryleadership.
Since01/2010Freelancingsoftwaredeveloper/architect

Leaddeveloper,architectureandtechnologyresponsibilityforJavaorGrailsbasedsoftwareprojects.
Veryoftenhiredforknowhowtransferandconsultingatstartups.
09/2006until12/2009LeaddeveloperandprojectmanageratneofonieGmbH

Architectureandtechnologyresponsibilityandteammanagementformanyprojectsdevelopingweb
applications.
02/2006until09/2006SeniorsoftwaredeveloperandprojectmanageratGameDuellGmbH

ManagingthedevelopmentofprojectSkatMasters,teammanagement,architecture,teststrategy.
10/2003until02/2006SeniorsoftwaredeveloperatASDISSoftwareAG

TechleadfortheOOpersistencelayerofASDISACM,leadingdevelopmentofASDISRollout.
06/2001until03/2002SoftwaredeveloperatLogwareGmbH

PortingprojecttoLinux,improvingthepersistencelayer.
12/1998until05/2001SoftwaredeveloperatNovavilleAG

TooldevelopmentinJava,objectpersistenceinJava,servlets.
1995until12/1998FreelancingSoftwaredeveloper

Websites,Javaapplets,businesssoftware.
1992until1995ManageratTrautesHeime.V.

Memberofthemanagingboard,managingtheITinfrastructureproject.
1988until1992FreelancingSoftwaredeveloper

Musicsoftware,MIDIsoftware,samplingsoftware,sequencers,AtariSTinC

Education
19982003

StudiesofbusinessinformaticsatHTWBerlin,GradedasDiplom
Wirtschaftsinformatiker(FH)(Ms.Sc)

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19871989

StudiesofcomputerscienceatTUBerlin(droppedforbusinessreasons).

1987

AlevelsatKtheKollwitzGymnasiumWilhelmshaven

Focus
Modernagilemanagement,technologicalleadership,softwaredesignandarchitecture.Software
developmentusingmodernandagilemethodologieswithuptodateandmaturetechnologies.Rich
experiencewithhightrafficmultitierwebapplications.

KnowHow
Topic

Intensity

Since

Comment

Technologyleadership

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2005

Teamleader

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2005

Projectmanagement

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2008

Agilemanagement

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2008

IntensivelyatZalandoSE

JavaSE

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1996

Javasince1.0.2

JavaEE

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1999

Recentlylessintense,nowmoreSpring

SpringFramework

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2005

Veryintenseincl.WebFlow,Security,WS

GroovyandGrails

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2008

Veryintenseinrecentyears

JavaScript

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2006

Clientside

NodeJS,Grunt,Bower

++

2014

ReactiveProgramming

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2013

RxJava,Akka,Futures

HTML/CSS

++

2004

Justbasics

AngularJS

+++

2014

Bootstrap

++

2014

TestDriven

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2002

Mocks,ContinuousIntegration

Agile(Scrum,XP,Kanban)

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2004

FirstXP,since2006mostlyScrum

Webservices

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2006

RPC,SOAP,REST,XML,JSON

Tomcat

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2006

ApplicationServer

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2005

JBoss,WebSphere

ObjektPersistence

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2001

Hibernate,iBatis,homegrown

GUI(Swing)

++

1998

Notrecently

SQLDatabases

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1998

MySQL,Oracle,Postgres

NoSQLDatabases

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2012

MongoDB

Maven

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2007

Gradle

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2012

Git

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2011

Allprojectssince2011withGit

AndroidEntwicklung

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2010

OSSandprivateprojects

Linux

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1998

Android

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2010

OSSandpetprojects

Docker

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2014

DevOps

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2001

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ProfessionalHistory
12/2015untilnowTechnicalArchitect/LeadatMobilityMediaGmbH(BoschGroup)
MobilityMediaGmbHbelongstotheBoschGroupanddevelopsinnovativesolutionsforthecar
industry.
Architectingsoftwaresystems,managingthedevelopmentbynearshoreteams,steeringagile
processes,APIdesign
Javabasedwebservices,HTTPREST,ApacheCamel.
05/2015until11/2015ManageratZalandoSE
ZalandoSE
isoneofEuropeslargestECommercecompanies.Thecompanyfollowsaverymodern
agilemanagementapproachwithautonomousteams.Ifulfilledtwodifferentroleswithinthemiddle
management.
DeliveryLead

Leadingthreesoftwaredevelopmentteams,eachwithsixengineersandeachwithan
associatedproductmanager.
Responsibleforthetechnicalproductdevelopment,overallarchitectureandteststrategy.
Drivingtheteamsprocessesanddecisionmaking.
Alignmentwithpeopleleads,thedepartmenthead,productownerandSVP.
Microservicesarchitecture,Scala,Akka,swagger,docker,AWS,AngularJS.

PeopleLead

DisciplinaryandHRleadershipforupto35softwareengineers.
Responsibleforthedevelopmentoftheemployeescareerandprofile,educationandsalary.
OngoingdevelopmentofZalandosmanagementframeworkRadicalAgility.
Alignmentwithdeliveryleads,headsandSVPs.
Usingagilemanagementmethods,Management3.0,TheAlliance.

CrossCuttingEngagement

MemberoftheTechnologistGuild.ContributiontotheZalandoTechnologyRadar(Guidelines
fortechnologydecisions).
Memberoftheinterviewerpool(hiring).

Since01/2010FreelancingSoftwareDeveloper/Architect
11/2014until04/2015TSystemsMMS

Highperformancelowlatencyscalablecommunicationplatformforcustomersfromthe
automotive(Car2CarandCar2Xcommunication)andhomeappliances(IoT)sector.
AsynchronousnonblockingapplicationwithJava,Spring,JMS,NoSQLandWebSockets.
SoftwarearchitecturewithUMLandimplementationinJava.

09/2014until10/2014ckcGmbH.

Customerisdevelopingsolutionsforchargingpointsforelectricvehicles.
BuildwithGrailsandjQuerymobile.PaymentwithPayPal.
Developingamobilewebapplication

07/2014ProjectPlaydatefortutaona

ParentsDatingSite.
BackendwithVert.x,Docker,MongoDB.FrontendwithAngularJS,Bootstrap,Websockets,
Grunt,Jasmin.MobilemitIonicundCordova.
CTO.

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11/2013until08/2014TVSmilesGmbHGmbH.

TVBonusprogrambasedonsmartphoneapps.
SpringRoobasedbackend,RESTAPIs,AngularJS.
Pushingthefeaturesforwardandconsolidatingtheexistingcodebase.Mostlybackendand
somefrontendwithAngularJS.

08/2012until10/2013DocInsiderGmbH.

Web2.0medicalcommunity,relaunchproject
GrailsBackend,MongoDB,buildsystemwithJenkins,PaaSCloudHosting(jelastic)
TeamLead,principalengineer,architecture,development.

05/2012until08/2012GlobalLeadsGroup.

Verymodern,veryscalablecommunitydrivenpublishingplatform
Grailsbackends,NoSQLDBs,messagingserver,gradle
Architecture,buildsystem,Grailsconsulting

09/2011until04/2012JuwiMcMillanGroup.

ApplicationswithiPadsasclients.Appsforbusinesscommunication,eventmanagement.
GrailsbackendsmitoracledatabasesandRESTAPIs.
ResponsiblefortheGrailsbackend.

02/2011until08/2011Pinutsmedia+scienceGmbH

Massivecollaborativerealtimevisualeditingandvisualisationofbusinessdata.
GrailsapplicationandaJavaScriptbasedbrowserclientusingmodern,bleedingedgeHTML5
andSVG(GoogleChromeonly)lotofajax.BackendintegrationwithPinutsinhouse
technology.
ResponsiblefortheGrailsapplication.

08/2010until01/2011VattenfallEuropeInformationServices

TechnologymodernisationoftheWorkforceManagementSystemPowerWork
Spring,OSGi,iBatisbasedWebapplicationwithaRichClient
TechLeadfortheBackEndSAPsynchronizationforthemoduleNetservice

03/2010bis07/2010GoogleAndroidProjectsfortutaona

MobileAugmentedRealityProjektDroidMan,concept,architecture,development
AndroidTeleportergeolocationbasedpublictransportnavigation.

09/2006until12/2009LeadDeveloperatneofonieGmbH
neofonie
developswebandmobileapplicationsmostlyusingtheirownsearchenginetechnology.The
companyhasanexcellentreputationanddevelopsandmaintainsanumberofverypopularGerman
websites.Thecompany'sphilosophyembracesagileandlightweightdevelopment.
08/2009until12/2009Project'WeltundBild'

CMSformedicalpublications.
GroovyandGrailsapplication.
MobileclientsfortheiPhoneandgoogleandroid.

02/2009until08/2009Projectfinanzen100.de

Financialnewsportalbackend.
EntireinfrastructureisrunningonamazonEC2.
JavaapplicationusingSpring,hessianandneofoniesearch.

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07/2008until02/2009Projectdocinsider.de

Medicalweb2.0communityusinggrails
Leadingateamof3developers
IntegrationintotheMSNportal.
VerylightweightdevelopmentusingGrailsandneofoniesearch.
Loadbalancedandclusteredtomcatdeployment.

02/2008until07/2008ProjectforeBayMotors

Vehicleportalmobile.de.
Extensionandrefactoringofthedomainmodel.
SpringbasedJavaapplicationwitheBaybackendtechnology

12/2007until02/2008Projectforthestartupzimory.com

Techleadforthewebservice.
ModernizationoftheexistingtechnologyusingSpringandHibernate.
Introductionofagileprojectmanagement,themavenbuildsystemandCI.
Loadbalancedandclusteredtomcatfrontend.

09/2006until12/2007Projectwww.jobs.deforthescout24group

Jobsearchenginebasedonneofoniesearchanddocumentclassification
Techleadinateamof6developers.
Wonthegermanweb2.0awardandinnovationawardin2007.
LightweightJEESpringbasedapplication.
Loadbalancedandclusteredtomcatfrontend,verycomplexbackendincludingawebcrawler,
indexerandsearchengine.

02/2006until09/2006SeniorDeveloperatGameDuellGmbH
GameDuell
isaleadingonlinegameportalinGermany.FlashGamesmanagedbyaSpringbasedweb
application.
04/2006until09/2006Modernizationofthearchitecture

DevelopmentofaconceptforthemodernizationtowardsamodernandlightweightJava
application.
Pilotimplementationofthenewtechnologyinthepaymentmodule.
GreatimprovementofdecouplingandtestabilitybyusingSpring.

02/2006until04/2006TechLeadforthedevelopmentof'SkatMasters'

SpringbasedOOadaptorlayertothelegacybackend.
Strutsfrontendrunningintomcat.
Leadteamwith3developers.

OverallfocusatGameDuell

Analysisoftheexistinglegacycodebaseandarchitecture.
IntroductionofmodernQAmethodslikeunittestsandcodecoverage.
IntroductionofmoderntechnologieslikeSpringandmaven.
Architecturedecisions.

10/2003until02/2006DeveloperatASDISSoftwareAG
ASDISSoftwareAG
developsproductsforsystemandconfigurationmanagementforverylargeIT
infrastructures.AppserverbasedJEEIntranetwebapplication.
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02/2004until02/2006Modernizationoftheproduct'ASDISACM'

ModernizationoftheproductintoaJEEapplicationusingJBoss,Hibernate(Oracle)andStruts.
LeadingthemodernizationofthepersistencelayerincludingthemigrationfromanOODBMSto
aRDBMS.
Leadingthedevelopmentoftheproduct'sAPI.
Refactoringofthelegacybusinesslogic.
10/2003until02/2004TechLeadfortheproduct'ASDISRollout'
Architectureanddesignfromscratch
ASwingbasedstadalonetool.
Multithreadedexecutionenginewithastatemachine.

06/2001until03/2002DeveloperatLogwareGmbH(nowTorexRetail)
LogwareGmbH(nowTorexRetail)
producesPointofSaleproductsincludingtheBackOfficevery
complexJavaSEApplicationbasedonanhomegrownframework.
Portingtheproduct'Lukas'toLinux

MigrationoftheJavapersistencelayertoPostgresunderLinux.
DevelopmentofJPOSLinuxdevicedriver.
UnitTests.

12/1998until05/2001DeveloperatNovavilleAG
NovavilleAGofferedatechnologyandserviceforInternetServiceProviderstoprovideanadfinanced
internetaccess.
Developmentoftheproduct'PersonalAd'inJavaSE.
DesignandImplementationofthetool'AdTools'.
SwingGUIfor'PersonalAd'.

Before12/1998
Ialreadydidnumerousprofessionalsoftwaredevelopmentprojectswithoutbeinganemployed
softwareengineer.UsuallyIworkedasafreelancernexttomystudies.

Interactivewebsiteforelementdesignbydevelopingajavaapplet.
AsoftwareforhousingmanagementwithMSOfficeandVisualBasic.
AmanagementsoftwareforProphetVSsynthesizersforGeerdesMIDISystemsinC.
AsoftwareforindustrialengineeringcalculationsinCcalledRhodat.

Other
Bornon01.07.1967,mothertongueGerman,fluentinEnglish,basicknowledgeofFrenchandPolish.
IhadbeenlivingandworkinginLondon(almostoneyear)andWarsaw(somemonths).Contributorto
someOSSprojects.AttendingconferenceslikeDevoxx.GOTO,etc.RegularlyattendingTechMeetups
inBerlin.
Iwrotemyfirstcomputerprogramin1983onaAppleIIcomputerinAppleBASIC.Iworkedonmyfirst
commercialdevelopmentprojectin1988onaAtariSTcomputerinC.
Contact:+491797947434,
olaf.geibig@tutaona.com

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