Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

• Leading SAP’s technology strategy, research, innovation, corporate development, technology ecosystem, startup engagement, and incubation including Business AI and Sustainability. More information: https://www.sap.com/about/company/leadership/extended-board.html

Jan 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Leading SAP Business AI from strategy to execution, driving activities across entire SAP. Together with my team, I deliver state-of-the art business AI and foundational capabilities that users love and trust, driving value for customers.

Mar 2023 – Jan 2024 · 10 mos

• Leading Cross Product Engineering & Experience with global responsibility to bring SAP’s product portfolio together in one seamlessly integrated experience for customers. This includes SAP’s integration efforts, artificial intelligence, SAP Design, mobile experience, cost of cloud, central business configuration, performance & scalability, as well as cross-product innovations, all based on our cross-product strategy.

Aug 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Making the intelligent enterprise vision of SAP a reality across SAP's product portfolio and facilitating a coherent architecture and technology strategy across all SAP's main line of business solutions incl. S/4HANA and Industries, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass and Customer Experience.

Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Responsible for cloud-native engineering in SAP S/4HANA for SAP Real Estate products (e.g., Cloud for RealEstate, CLM, RE-FX), SAP CPQ, SAP Health, SAP RealSpend, SAP Cloud SDK, etc. with a strong focus on cloud-native engineering incl. high automation, DevOps, continuous deployment and driving a culture of engineering excellence.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Heading four 2-pizza teams of awesome software engineers, architects, scrum masters and POs for SAP RealSpend (http://sap.com/realspend) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud SDK (http://sap.com/s4sdk) with the mission of bringing cloud-native development to the SAP ecosystem using the SAP Cloud Platform and SAP S/4HANA.
• People Management.
• Strategy definition and execution for cloud-native technologies and applications for SAP Cloud Platform in conjunction with SAP S/4HANA.
• Cloud-native architecture roadmap and DevOps evangelism (Continuous Delivery, Containerization, Resilience Engineering, Multi-tenancy, Agile).
• Pushing open source and open communities
• Senior Management and Executive Support.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Released SAP RealSpend as the first cloud-native Finance application on the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) establishing continuous delivery with sub-daily deliveries and API-based consumption of the digital core (S/4 HANA) creating a pace-layered application strategy and a line of business focused decomposed ERP strategy for SAP S/4 HANA.
• SAP Cloud Platform Extension Architecture of SAP S/4 HANA for Lines of Business.
• General architecture definition, trade-off analysis and execution.
• Product execution for SAP RealSpend and Financial APIs.
• Executive support, incl. SVP, Board, and Chairman level.
• Strong customer co-innovation with first customers including requirement specification and design.
• Release Engineering (Sub-Daily software delivery).
• Bringing DevOps culture and tools to the entire SAP ecosystem.

Nov 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Released and implemented SAP Cloud Platform Gamification as main architect and lead developer which helps 100+ customers to incorporate gamification elements into their applications.
• Wrote PhD thesis including multiple academic papers and patents on the platform's event streaming and processing concepts + invented the gamification modeling language as a formal language to specify gamification concepts. Supervised 5+ master theses and additional working students.

May 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Replication of Business Objects in distributed systems, Multi-touch applications and device integration, Development of dashboards for sustainbility and energy management, 3D Visualizations, Data Stream Management Systems. In-Memory Database, SAP Business Warehouse Integration, SAP Business Objects XI Integration, SAP Netweaver & MII, MS Kinect, Gamification, Unity 3D, SAP ERP 6.0