Curriculum Vitæ

Mathias is a seasoned IT professional with a strong mathematical background. He started his career as a software developer for mathematical optimization solutions and subsequently moved into customer-facing data science roles incorporating optimization, predictive analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He has built up thorough leadership skills as a development manager and backed up his experience with successfully earning an MBA degree with focus and Intelligent Enterprise Management.

Professional Experience

Development Manager @ SAP SE

since 2019

Responsible for multi-model database engines of SAP HANA Cloud (i.e. Vector, Spatial/GIS, JSON Document Store, Graph and Hierarchies)
Providing servant leadership to a team of C++ developers
Defining product roadmap and safeguarding agile development process
Customer, partner and stakeholder management

Data Scientist @ SAP SE

2014 - 2019

Leading agile development teams towards crafting customer-specific data science and machine learning solutions
Customer-facing consultant and architect
Supporting software sales cycle: technical presales, requirements engineering and effort estimation

Support Engineer @ SAP SE

2012 - 2013

Delivering global on-site support services for SAP BW on HANA
Acting as de-escalation architect in critical customer situations

Software Developer @ LomoSoft GmbH

2009 - 2012

Lead developer for the logistics optimization solution AutoDispatch
Technical project manager for global rollout activities at customer site
Gained in-depth knowledge of Oil & Gas downstream business

Working Student @ iba AG

2008 - 2009

Research and development of algorithms for automated pattern detection in measurement series
Gained high-level industry knowledge in steel manufacturing

Education

Part-time MBA @ University of Applied Science Kaiserslautern

2022 - 2024

Academic Degree: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Program: Intelligent Enterprise Management
Grade: 1.5 (German scale)
Master’s Thesis: An Agile Collaboration Framework for Project-based Software Development

Diploma Studies @ Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

2003 - 2009

Academic Degree: Diplom-Mathematiker
Major: Mathematics, Minor: Computer Science
Grade: Very Good
Diploma Thesis: Effizientes Alignment von Stahlband-Fingerprints
Co-authored paper at DEXA’09: Alignment of Noisy and Uniformly Scaled Time Series