Gregor Hohpe

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Singapore, Singapore29 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in IT transformation and cloud strategies.
Authored influential books on architecture and integration.
Led significant projects in mobile monetization and cloud strategy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned IT architect specializing in cloud transformation and enterprise architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

It TransformationEnterprise ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipServerless ComputingCloud-native ArchitectureCloud ComputingIt Strategy

Other Skills

Digital TechnologyDistributed SystemsCloud TransformationPlatform EngineeringAgile MethodologiesSOASoftware DevelopmentTest Driven DevelopmentSoftware DesignIntegrationArchitectureObject Oriented DesignDesign PatternsContinuous IntegrationSystem Architecture

About

I help architects rediscover the common sense in large-scale IT architecture: IT strategy, cloud transformation, platform engineering. Rather than preach all the great things they could be doing, I focus on how it can be achieved: - by finding order in chaos - by diving into the engine room to come back with better IT strategies - by relentlessly fighting unnecessary complexity and corporate politics I've been called the "IT transformation jester" - trusted, influential, witty, and occasionally funny. My unlikely career path allowed me to learn entrepreneurship in a Silicon Valley startup, strategy at Deloitte, agile development at ThoughtWorks, internet-scale engineering at Google, and IT transformation at Allianz. Now i combine all of them to solve IT problems by seeing them from more angles.

Experience

29 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Sr. Principal Evangelist

Jan 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore

Helping overcome the "serverless illusion": serverless reduces the need for operations staff, but increases the need for hard-to-find serverless architects and developers. I explored better representation of cloud services' run-time behavior in the type system of cloud automation, so we can move away from "2 integers, one string, 30 pages of documentation"

Digital TechnologyDistributed SystemsServerless ComputingCloud-Native Architecture

Enterprise Strategist

Mar 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Singapore

Digital TechnologyEnterprise ArchitectureCloud ComputingIT StrategyServerless Computing

Monetary authority of singapore (mas)

Singapore MAS ITAP Member

Oct 2021 – Nov 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Singapore · On-site

Govtech singapore

Smart Nation Fellow

Jul 2019 – Mar 2020 · 8 mos · Singapore

Most people want their government to be more secure, more efficient, and easier to interact with. There's one obvious way to make that happen: go, build it!
I was offered a Smart Nation Fellowship to help shape Singapore's cloud strategy and to help build digital capability in Singapore.

Enterprise Architecture

Architect elevator

Fractional CTO and IT Transformation Advisor

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos · World · Hybrid

I support senior executives in regaining a close connection to their IT engine room. To reduce friction, increase decision discipline, and establish transparency, I dive deep down into the engine room (looking at a git repo change log tells you more than 3 months of steering meetings) and come back up with new insights.

Digital TechnologyEnterprise ArchitectureIT Transformation

Google

Technical Director, Office of the CTO

Oct 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore

Helping strategic JAPAC customers transform their IT to maximize the benefit they obtain from moving to the cloud.

Allianz technology

Chief Architect

Jul 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

As the first Chief Architect inside Allianz IT Delivery I built a team that defines and oversees the architecture strategy across infrastructure, applications, and operations to enable digital transformation like digital ecosystems and private cloud infrastructure. The team rides the "Architect Elevator" from strategic roadmap development down to solution implementation and operation and is thus the antidote to the proverbial ivory tower.

Allianz

Enterprise Architect

Aug 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Munich

Defined the IT strategy and architecture that drives the convergence between the digital world and insurance. Key aspects included complexity reduction through infrastructure harmonization and increased business agility through an on-premise cloud infrastructure.

Google

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2005 – Aug 2012 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Tokyo, Japan

Initiated and ran a project to leverage NFC technology to allow conversion tracking from mobile ad impression to store visits and in-store actions. Designed, built and deployed the solution from the hardware up to product definition and pilot customer acquisition. Multiple patent applications filed.
Built up the Mobile Monetization team of 5 engineers in Tokyo, which resulted in significant mobile revenue improvements. Received "OC Award" for Mobile Monetization.
Refactored the AdWords Front-end code base, one of Google's most critical and complex Java applications at the time, to introduce a business domain layer and achieve better separation between business logic and database.
Developed one of Google's most successful hands-on technical training programs, which covers the design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring of a distributed system on Google infrastructure, including GFS storage, Bigtable storage, MapReduce data processing and other proprietary technologies.

Myself

Author

Oct 2003 – Present · 22 yrs 8 mos · Singapore · Remote

Writing helps me straighten out my many thoughts: Enterprise Integration Patterns (2003), 37 Things One Architect Knows (2016), The Software Architect Elevator (2020), Cloud Strategy (2020), Platform Strategy (2024)
My content has been featured in "97 Things Every Architect Should Know", "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know", "SOA Expertenwissen", "Best Software Writing", "IEEE Software", and "IEEE Internet Computing".

Technical Leadership

Thoughtworks

Integration Architect

Sep 2001 – Jul 2005 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Led the enterprise integration practice. Provided advisory services in enterprise architecture, SOA and asynchronous messaging architectures to key clients around the globe. Collected and documented experiences in the seminal book Enterprise Integration Patterns.

Deloitte consulting

Sr. Manager

Feb 1998 – Aug 2001 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Deployed innovative solutions as part of Deloitte's DotCom business unit with a focus on packaged and bespoke billing and Telco provisioning systems. Enterprise integration using TIBCO and Vitria.

American management systems (ams)

Sr. Principal

Sep 1994 – Feb 1998 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Sacramento

Designed and implemented large-scale custom systems for Franchise Tax Board of California tax audit and collections. As lead architect, I drove key technical decisions while leading a team of 15 developers, and coding critical system components, such as laptop/desktop synchronization.
Generated over $300 million in additional revenue for the client within the first two years of operation.