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• Currently managing a diverse team of distributed systems engineers and cloud computing engineers within the Core Collaboration group.
• Management activities including staff planning, recruiting, onboarding new team members, coaching and mentoring team members and other management colleagues, career path planning and development (from Associate to Principal engineering levels), employee mobility, change management and conflict management.
• Focus areas: Data & Analytics strategy, fostering data-driven approaches across Core Collab teams, risk management and mitigation, AI skills strategy for engineering teams.
• Mediation-inspired management style with a focus on team dynamics, individual and group psychology and building high performance teams by harnessing team diversity for enhanced productivity and innovation.

Software Engineering Manager (MT3)

Verivox GmbH

• Recruited and lead QA engineers for the Berlin and Heidelberg offices. Coached developers in various teams to improve end-to-end ownership and a promote a culture of quality throughout the development process.
• Established a QA Guild for internal workshops, technology presentations and engineer training.
• Successfully managed the migration readiness and post-migration verification process for moving Verivox systems and databases to a new data centre, which helped reduce data centre costs by over €300.000 for 2020.
• Performed software quality analysis and a system architecture audit with proposals to the management team for reducing development and infrastructure costs. Developed roadmaps and KPIs for resolving long-term technical debt and renovating various legacy systems alongside existing product development work.
• Hands-on quality assurance activities for the Energy, Telco and Car Insurance teams, including test scripting, QA automation and renovation of continuous delivery processes for their tariff portals, back-end APIs and microservices (JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, CodeceptJS).
• Converted legacy CI pipelines and deployments for use with Jenkins. Improved deployment cycle times by using Docker containerisation and deployment to Google Cloud via Helm and Kubernetes.
• Setup code quality analysis and vulnerability detection with SonarQube for various projects. Implemented enhanced application event logging and error detection using Sentry.
• Worked with product teams to audit and remediate various systems for GDPR compliance and user data protection, including cookie validation tests for recent user tracking restrictions in the latest web browser releases.

Lead Software Quality Engineer

Relata

• Established a quality assurance and release engineering process to complement existing development practices.
• Provided software quality auditing, release planning and a product roadmap for the management team.
• Developed functional tests and test automation for the analytics dashboard product, data pipeline components, system APIs and cloud-based microservices (Python, Pytest, JavaScript, Node.js, AWS, Docker, CircleCI, Codacy).
• Produced technical system documentation and software validation specifications for an integration project with a major banking client.

QA Engineering Consultant

B2C2

• Recruited and managed new QA engineers and coached development team members.
• Maintained and renovated existing trade engine APIs and order handling processes (Python, JavaScript, Node.js).
• Retrofitted unit tests, BDD-style functional tests, test automation and CI processes for various trade engine APIs and order handling logic (Python, Pytest, Behave, Docker, Drone CI).
• Refactored and converted stand-alone trade engine scripts into production-ready Docker-based microservices for deployment to AWS.

Lead QA Engineer & Python Developer

Akvo

• Lead and managed quality assurance, test automation, release engineering and continuous delivery for three product teams.
• Recruited and managed specialist QA and DevOps engineers.
• Coached developers in test scripting and automation techniques, release engineering and continuous delivery practices.
• Maintained deployments for over 140 Google App Engine projects across multiple environments (Java, shell scripting, Gradle, Circle CI, Docker, Google App Engine, Amazon S3).
• Created functional tests for web application testing and headless test execution within a continuous delivery process (Python, Selenium, CasperJS, PhantomJS, JavaScript, Node.js, Travis CI, TestRail, Codacy).
• Performed software quality auditing and analysis for reporting to senior management team along with proposals for reducing development and infrastructure costs (Codacy, TestRail).

QA and Release Engineering Team Lead

• Implemented a continuous delivery pipeline across multiple environments for the RSR product (Python, Fabric, Bash shell scripting, TeamCity).
• Developed and maintained functional test scripts (Python, Nose, Selenium, TestRail) and developed an automated headless test execution process as part of the existing continuous delivery process (Python, Selenium RC, Xvfb).

Senior QA and Release Engineer

BlueCrest Capital Management

• Established continuous integration infrastructure and developed deployment automation tools for the various development teams (C#, Sybase, TeamCity, Microsoft TFS).
• Coached developers in release engineering and agile software practices to establish a DevOps culture.

Senior Software Engineer

Morgan Stanley

• Maintained and renovated an event-based straight-through processing (STP) rules engine for enriching over 11 million XML trade messages daily, used by over 500 global Operations staff (Java-based rules engine, ASP.NET admin UI).
• Provided agile development workshops and coached developers in software testing practices.
• Performed software quality auditing and analysis of various custom regulatory reporting applications and databases spanning a variety of technology stacks (C# WinForms, ASP.NET, Java JSP, Sybase, Tomcat). Implemented renovation of these to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Basel II regulations.

 Senior Analyst Developer

Thomson Reuters

Analyst Developer

Software Developer

Van Vuuren & Associates

Software engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading and building engineering teams, including over 3 years of people management and a total of 28 years in software engineering across various industries.

Current interests and competencies:
• Managing and empowering software engineering teams
• Cloud computing and distributed systems engineering
• Leading large-scale system integrations and renovations
• Management of software risk and regulatory compliance

I'm only considering positions based in Berlin, Germany.

Languages:
• Fluent: (C2) English
• Intermediate: (B2) German, Afrikaans
• Basic: (A1) Dutch, French, Italian

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