Merryl Rolan DMello

CEO

Ruhr Region15 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Delivered a 3-year backlog in just 5 weeks at HP.
  • Built a hiring pipeline from 0 to 10+ at Rackspace.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 30-70% at Phoenix Contact.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management and Engineering expert in AI and Cloud Computing sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai/automation StrategyProduct LeadershipProduct ManagementProduct StrategySoftware DevelopmentTeam ManagementProject ManagementProduct OwnershipCloud Computing

Other Skills

Open Source AIAutomation ToolingAI AgentsDeveloper ToolsAgile MethodologiesNegotiationProduct DiscoveryUser Experience (UX)Product Road MappingCross-functional CollaborationsDelegationTrainingStrategyProduct IdeationCross-functional Team Leadership

About

Started coding in 2008. Intel, Mphasis, HP, Rackspace, Cisco, Phoenix Contact, BioNTech. Went from writing Python scripts to running products across 35+ stakeholders at a pharma company. The pattern across all of it: I look at what eats a team's time, and I make most of it disappear. At HP, I inherited a 3-year feature backlog and shipped it in 5 weeks. At Rackspace, I built the offshore hiring pipeline and grew the team from 0 to 10+. At Phoenix Contact, I cut infrastructure costs by 30-70% while owning 3 energy data products. I call myself The Lazy Engineer because the best engineering eliminates the need for more engineering. These days I use Claude Code and AI tools to 10-100x everything I do, and I help companies do the same. Right now I'm building AI products and consulting for teams that know they need automation but don't know where to start. Cloud architecture, product strategy, fractional CTO. If that's you, I'm always up for a conversation.

Experience

15 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

Career transition

Open Source & AI Exploration

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Remote

  • After 17 years in product and engineering leadership, taking time to explore
  • what's next. Currently focused on:
  • Contributing to open source AI and automation tooling
  • Deepening hands-on work with AI agents and developer tools
  • Writing and sharing what I learn along the way
  • Open to opportunities in product leadership, AI/automation strategy,
  • and engineering leadership.
Open Source AIAutomation ToolingAI AgentsDeveloper ToolsAI/Automation StrategyProduct Leadership

Biontech se

Product Owner

Mar 2023Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · Remote

  • Guiding product ideation and discovery, crafting solutions that resonate with stakeholders and users alike.
  • Championing business unit value, seamlessly aligning product efforts with overarching goals.
  • Steering end-to-end product roadmaps, strategies, and budgets, ensuring strategic alignment.
  • Pioneering a high-impact MVP within a complex stakeholder landscape, harmonizing cross-functional units.
  • Uncovering multiple digital transformation opportunities, elevating user experiences and value delivery.
  • Currently, driving the realization of these opportunities for maximal, tangible impact.
Agile MethodologiesNegotiationProduct ManagementProduct DiscoveryUser Experience (UX)Product Road Mapping+10

Phoenix contact smart business gmbh

3 roles

Product Owner

Promoted

Jul 2021Feb 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Responsible for product ownership of 3 energy data products
  • Responsible for breaking down release milestones into high level execution plans
  • Launched various features after detailing customer pains
  • Regular mentoring of engineers and future product owners in agile centric software product development
  • Responsible for product costing, ROI analysis, creating user stories, maintaining product backlog
  • Working on marketing content and product evangelization
  • Responsible for offshore staffing/hiring process and strategy
  • Regular usage of 80/20 principles in all work responsibilities
Agile MethodologiesNegotiationProduct ManagementNew HiresUser Experience (UX)Product Strategy+7

Technical Product Owner

Aug 2020Jul 2021 · 11 mos

  • Responsible for creating technical user stories
  • Maintaining the technical backlog and scrum process
  • Responsible for reduction of engineering costs while maximising features and functionality
  • Responsible for defining development life cycle and development processes/guidelines for the team
  • Managed to speed up feature development by analysing the best course of action with respect to the technical features
  • Training product owners with respect to product development and story creation the agile way
Agile MethodologiesNegotiationProduct ManagementNew HiresUser Experience (UX)Product Strategy+5

Senior Engineer

Nov 2019Aug 2020 · 9 mos

Agile MethodologiesNegotiationNew HiresCross-functional CollaborationsTrainingStrategy+4

Smartb energy management gmbh (currently phoenix contact smart business gmbh)

Senior Developer/Architect

Nov 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr · Berlin Area, Germany

  • Successfully architected the infrastructure and applications in various client side and internal projects
  • Optimized the development life cycle internally thereby increasing efficiency and cohesiveness of the team
  • Architecting python based web applications and leading the team to successfully create production ready systems
  • Kickstarted the process of work system document to improve processes at all levels including organization level, project management, engineering
  • Architecting python based web applications and leading the team to successfully create production ready systems
  • Building user stories, presenting solutions to clients, and to peers alike on a regular basis
  • Functioning partly as team agile coach/scrum master and solution architect
Agile MethodologiesNegotiationPython (Programming Language)Product StrategyCross-functional CollaborationsProject Management+4

Cisco

Software Engineer

Aug 2018Oct 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Cross-functional CollaborationsSoftware Development

Rackspace

Senior Consultant (Bangalore DevCenter @Accionlabs)/Product Owner

Jun 2014Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • My responsibilities include
  • Gathering requirements from clients for multiple projects
  • Solutioning and architecting software based on client requirements and needs
  • Coming up with cutting edge solutions using current trending technology.
  • The work deals with current technologies like big data, cloud.
Agile MethodologiesNegotiationNew HiresPython (Programming Language)Product OwnershipProduct Strategy+7

Hewlett-packard

Contingent

May 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked as a contingent from Mphasis,
  • Leading the Mphasis team for cloud computing, working on application modelling, infrastructure automation, researching on cloud computing.
  • Gathering requirements from key stakeholders
  • Development and testing on multiple platforms.
  • Led a team of 4 experienced professionals from multiple backgrounds for the same.
  • Responsibilities also include leading and managing the team, interacting with the QA team and other teams around the world for model requirements and development.
  • Conducting interviews for candidates for the current team and other teams for python developer positions and QA engineers and QA leads.
Agile MethodologiesNegotiationProduct ManagementNew HiresPython (Programming Language)Product Ownership+8

Mphasis

Team Lead/Delivery SSE/Project Manager

Jan 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked as Lead Engineer ( Cloud R&D ). Working on multiple open source applications as well as HP internal application modelling on the cloud. Also working on automation of cloud processes using python scripts.
  • Currently leading a team of 4 experienced professionals from multiple backgrounds for the same.
  • Responsibilities also include leading and managing the team, interacting with the QA team and other teams around the world for model requirements and development.
  • Conducting interviews for candidates for the current team and other teams for python developer positions and QA engineers and QA leads.
Agile MethodologiesNegotiationProduct ManagementNew HiresPython (Programming Language)Product Ownership+7

Keane

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Bangalore

  • Worked as Senior Software Engineer, primarily worked on Python web applications under an Agile model. Worked on developing, testing, maintaining code, as well as minor automation testing tasks.
Agile MethodologiesSoftware Development

N/a - freelancer

Freelance Developer

Aug 2009Aug 2010 · 1 yr

  • Freelance software developer, well versed in C# and Python.
  • Achievements:
  • Developed a research based software (Heart rate variability scanner) for a Ph.D student at St.John's Medical college, Bangalore using Python and Qt
Agile MethodologiesSoftware Development

Intel india technology pvt ltd

Intern

Jan 2008Jan 2009 · 1 yr

  • Intern/ Platform Application Engineer: Worked as a mediator between the customers and other groups at Intel, worked on BIOS updation, replication of graphics issues, fixing them. Worked on developing an internal application in C#
Software Development

Education

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Marketing

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Master of Science (M.S.) — Embedded systems

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Visvesvaraya Technological University

B.E. — Electrical & Electronics

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Gulf Indian School

Primary education

Jan 1993Jan 1998

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