Career at a glance
From ECU to cloud platform
19 years, five positions. This page gathers the evidence: the positions, a competency profile from six references, the projects in detail and an external management audit — all verifiable.
| 2018 – today | Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart Product owner, team lead & architect — developer platforms & automation |
| 2017 – 2018 | Philips Medizin-Systeme, Böblingen Software development engineer — patient monitoring |
| 2011 – 2017 | Elektrobit Automotive, Böblingen Expert development engineer, scrum master & architect — driver assistance |
| 2011 | Minol Messtechnik, Leinfelden-Echterdingen Software developer R&D — smart metering radio network |
| 2007 – 2011 | Gigatronik Stuttgart Development engineer — embedded ECUs |
| 2003 – 2007 | Hochschule Esslingen Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Computer Engineering |
What I work with
Platform & DevOps
Engineering
Projects
Career in projects
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2025 · Internal developer conferences (Bosch)
Speaker: platform engineering & orchestration
Talks at two developer conferences (DevCon Stuttgart 02/2025, BoCSE & Testfest Renningen 07/2025): "Introduction to Platform Engineering and Platform Orchestration".
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2025 · Robert Bosch GmbH
Developer experience & AI onboarding (BODE)
PO & team lead customer experience: self-service, trainings, support and customer acquisition for the platform — delivered AI-guided onboarding (chatbot), learning paths and an education center.
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2023–2025 · Robert Bosch GmbH
Internal developer platform: orchestrator (BODE)
Platform engineering at one of Europe’s largest industrial groups.
Product owner of the orchestrator component of an internal developer platform for a ~400,000-employee corporation: product strategy, multi-cluster evaluation, 1.0 release, international collaboration across 4 teams.
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2022–2024 · Robert Bosch GmbH
Product responsibility for developer tooling landscape
Team lead (7 → 13 people, Germany + India) for central development tools: product and service quality, cost planning, unified customer experience, new customer segments acquired.
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2018–2022 · Robert Bosch GmbH
WARP: corporate-wide firewall & compliance automation
From empty repo to corporate-wide platform.
Played a key role in building a web platform automating firewall workflows, used corporation-wide — manual processes fully automated. In parallel: team lead of the build & deploy team and scrum master.
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2017–2018 · Philips Medical Systems
Patient monitoring
Development for patient monitors in a regulated environment; introduced Jenkins for the software integration process.
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2011–2017 · Elektrobit Automotive
Driver assistance systems for Daimler
Scrum master, deputy project lead and architect in teams of 8–12: built CI toolchains, established agile processes, AUTOSAR feature development, architecture for reverse documentation of complex ADAS software.
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2011 · Minol Messtechnik
Multi-hop radio network for smart metering
R&D: analysed the radio network’s control flow and data management, designed and integrated error capture — IoT before it was called that.
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2008–2011 · Gigatronik Stuttgart
PTC auxiliary heater: ECU software & supervision
The invisible guardian: safe ECU software that reached series production.
Software component owner (IOControl, Supervision, LIN) for an electric PTC auxiliary heater (series production): overcurrent detection with hysteresis & self-healing, CANdela fault-memory logic, PIL rest-bus simulation. Plus company-wide UML-for-C design guidelines incl. EA code generator.
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2007–2011 · Gigatronik Stuttgart
Series development of automotive ECUs
Series and prototype software for automotive ECUs (seat-belt tensioner, glow-plug control, seat heating) incl. bus communication and error memory management. Individual projects in the blog diary.
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2007 · Esslingen University · diploma thesis (at Gigatronik)
Diploma thesis: an autocode interface integrating embedded hardware into TargetLink for various microcontroller architectures
From Simulink model straight into the moving car.
Diploma thesis: a TargetLink library that binds model-generated C code directly — no hand-coding — onto the canAIDER universal ECU (TriCore TC1796) and its real hardware interfaces (IO, ADC, PWM, SPI, I²C, CAN), enabling application software to be tested in the vehicle early. Graded 1.5; hired afterwards.
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2006–2007 · Esslingen University
Study project: development of an OSEK-compliant real-time operating system (HSE Free OSEK)
Before I orchestrated platforms, I wrote an operating system.
Study project: with a fellow student, built a preemptive, priority-based real-time OS to the OSEK standard entirely from scratch — kernel, two schedulers and assembly-level context switching for two microcontroller architectures (ARM7 LPC2148 & Freescale HCS12), incl. a custom context-storage scheme against nested interrupts. Graded 1.0 (best possible).
Competency profile
What six references across 19 years say
Six employment and interim references from five positions draw the same picture — from an independent source, not my own pen.
Tip: toggle references on/off in the legend.
From specialist to leader
Career development at a glance
My career rests on an excellent technical foundation, deliberately extended over the years with strategic leadership and delivery competencies:
- Constant strengths: Top-tier expertise, strong self-motivation and precision in how I work have been the reliable foundation from day one.
- Deliberate evolution: Team leadership, resilience and conduct have grown steadily to absolute top marks across my career stations.
The result: a rounded competency profile that blends solid technical expertise seamlessly with modern product and team responsibility.
The values are my reading of the evaluative language (German reference grading), not figures stated in the documents.
Competency profile · detail
All six references at a glance
Each column a reference, each row a criterion — the stronger the shade, the higher the rating. An empty cell means that dimension was not assessed in that reference (e.g. leadership in pure developer roles). Click a rating to see the original excerpt from the reference.
Gigatronik 2011 Minol 2011 Elektrobit 2017 Philips 2018 Bosch 2022 Bosch 2026
Technical expertise 4.3
Grasp & learning –4.74.35.0
Motivation & drive 4.34.74.5
Resilience –4.5
Reliability & work style 4.34.04.7
Results 4.04.35.0
Leadership & team building –––
Communication & conduct 4.04.34.3
* Minol (2011): Short R&D stint (4 months). Only an overall rating ("to our utmost satisfaction") is documented — no full reference text, hence no per-criterion excerpts.
External management audit 2022
What an independent assessment found
An external management audit (conducted by aestimamus, 2022) assessed my competency profile independently — via interview, a presentation task, a case study and a simulated employee conversation. Unlike a reference letter, this is a deliberately critical scale: a 3 means "stable", only 4–5 stand for strong and very strong. That is exactly why the picture is honest and differentiated.
Overall verdict Recommendation with reservations — solid competence with clearly recognisable potential.
Actual Target 1 = major development need · 5 = very strong
Personal competencies
Presence & communication
Contact & relationship
Criticism & conflict
Willingness to learn & self-reflectionDevelopment area
Achievement motivationDevelopment area
Leadership competence
Task-oriented leadership
People-oriented leadership
Problem-solving competence
Analysis & reasoningDevelopment area
Execution & decisiveness
Entrepreneurial competence
Innovation & change management
Market & strategyDevelopment area
Partner & customer orientation
Note: the actual/target values are read from the original result chart (scale 1–5).
Strengths
- Honest, open and approachable manner, coupled with a high likeability. matches the "exemplary" conduct noted across the references
- Strong leadership motivation, marked by an employee-oriented perspective: adaptable and willing (and able) to take others’ perspectives. ↔ top scores in "leadership & team building" (international team, 2026)
- Notable capacity and willingness for self-reflection: a differentiated engagement with own strengths and development areas, and openness to feedback. this very strength makes the open account of development areas below credible
- Verbal fluency and articulacy: communicates and presents content convincingly. ↔ "grasp" and communication across several references
- Willing to take a stance and voice opinions; radiates an inner independence.
- Enjoys substantive and leadership-related challenges (achievement motivation). ↔ "impressive workload, even at peak load" (2026)
Development areas
- Presentation & analysis: orienting elements and structuring methods (e.g. SWOT) would improve traceability.
- Time management & concision: a stronger focus is recommended to present content precisely ("short and to the point").
- Perspective-taking: the existing ability to anticipate others’ expectations should be applied consistently and deliberately.
- Openness to self-criticism: remain honest and reflective, but handle self-criticism in a more balanced way when presenting.
What I have worked on since
The same areas resurfaced in later peer feedback. I take them seriously — here is the concrete follow-through:
Concision & focus
FeedbackBoth the external audit and peer feedback noted a tendency toward thoroughness — "from detail to key message".
Since thenDeliberate reduction to core messages in presentations and decision papers; quicker first assessments instead of perfectionism.
Structured analysis
FeedbackRecommendation to use structuring methods (e.g. SWOT) more systematically to improve traceability.
Since thenFixed evaluation frameworks in selection and architecture decisions — visible e.g. in the IT Product Selector.
Entrepreneurial & strategic thinking
FeedbackA call for more attention to business metrics (KPIs) and the bigger strategic picture.
Since thenCost and value thinking embedded in product decisions (e.g. explicit LLM cost transparency in my own tools).