Professional Skills

Summary

Application Manager in investment and corporate banking at ODDO BHF SE. Over 10 years in IT: software development, system architecture, operations leadership.

Current Role

Application Manager — Investment & Corporate Banking (ODDO BHF SE):

• Application management and third-level production support for booking, regulatory reporting and management reporting applications.
• Regulatory reporting to German supervisory authorities and the European Central Bank: reconciliation, data lineage, auditability.
• Rebuilt a reproducible in-house build process for vendor-software customizations.
• End-to-end transaction observability with Grafana, Loki and OpenTelemetry across OpenShift and Kafka-based platforms.
• Data-integration modernization with Apache Hop, SQL Server, Control-M and OpenShift.
• Internal AI tooling under banking security guardrails: coding assistants, document conversion, OCR, local knowledge search.
• C4 architecture documentation, runbooks and procedural documentation; training colleagues on Git, AI-assisted engineering and Kanban.

Engineering

Development & Architecture:

• Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, SQL (SQL Server, MySQL), PowerShell, Solidity.
• Frameworks: Node.js, React, Svelte.
• Apps: cross-platform (Android/iOS), Progressive Web Apps.
• Architecture: end-to-end system design, performance, security.
• AI: training specialized models from scratch, AI-assisted analysis of legacy and closed-source systems, multi-agent orchestration.

Cloud & DevOps:

• Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Cloudflare, Kubernetes cluster management.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI.
• Containers: Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes, microservices.

Web3:

• Smart contracts in Solidity.
• Decentralized systems, tokenomics, cryptography (incl. zero-knowledge proofs).
• Blockchain integration into enterprise applications.

Leadership & Operations

Team Leadership:

• Led teams of 15+ people, remote and hybrid.
• Built development processes from scratch: agile adoption, sprint planning.
• Budget, resource allocation, project prioritization.

Operations:

• Shortened time-to-market with Kanban and Scrum.
• Monitoring and observability (Prometheus/Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry) for error prevention and transaction tracing.
• Scaled IT infrastructure from startup to scale-up.

Projects & Clients:

• 20+ projects delivered, including automation solutions.
• Won clients through technical proofs of concept.
• Compliance in critical systems (e.g., GDPR, ISO).

Team & Communication

Mentoring:

• Trained 5+ apprentices and junior developers.
• Internal training, e.g. Web3 workshops and code reviews.

Communication:

• Reported to executive-level stakeholders.

Change Management:

• Restructured teams, including hiring and staff reductions.
• Introduced remote work with GitLab, Mattermost, Jitsi.

Project details and references on request.

For a full CV with specific experiences, please contact me at [email protected].