Nils Hofmeister

Dipl. Medieninformatiker (FH)

Head of Development - Corporate Services

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20354 Hamburg
Germany

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Personal information

Haves
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software development
12

project management
10

team lead
13

servant leadership
4

agile practices
5

Management 3.0
4

LAMP stack
5

build management
16

continuous integration
15

continuous delivery
6

configuration management
3

test automation
6

Ant
6

Jenkins
14

Opscode Chef
3

Vagrant
2

Atlassian Jira
12

Atlassian Confluence
12

C#
2

Java
10

C++
7

PHP
8

JavaScript
4

Shell
5

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Wants

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Interests

Edit 3D graphics, video games, cooking, strength training, cycling, fishing, movies
Organizations

Edit IEEE, ACM
Groups

Professional experience (10 years, 3 months)

Aug 2012 - present
(10 months)

Head of Development - Corporate Services

(The company name is only visible to registered members)

Industry: Computer Games
Sep 2010 - Jul 2012
(1 year, 11 months)

Lead Integration Architect

Bigpoint GmbH, http://www.bigpoint.com

Industry: Computer Games
Jul 2009 - Aug 2010
(1 year, 2 months)

Senior Software Developer

Ticking Bomb Games GmbH, http://www.ticking-bomb-games.de/

Industry: Computer Games
Mar 2005 - Jun 2009
(4 years, 4 months)

Software Developer

RTT AG, http://www.rtt.ag

Industry: Computer Software, Software Development, Consulting, Services - Virtual Showroom / Virtual Prototyping
Aug 2004 - Feb 2005
(7 months)

Working Student/Diploma Thesis

RTT AG, http://www.rtt.ag

Industry: Computer Software
Mar 2004 - Jul 2004
(5 months)

Intern

Siemens AG, http://www.siemens.de

Industry: Computer Software
Mar 2002 - Jul 2002
(5 months)

Intern

Base System GmbH

Industry: Computer Software
Aug 2001 - Sep 2001
(2 months)

System Administrator

Seidensticker GmbH, http://www.seidensticker.de

Industry: Computer Hardware
Apr 2000 - Aug 2000
(5 months)

Intern

QXL AG, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradus

Industry: Internet

Employment status

Employee

Educational background

Oct 2000 - Apr 2005

Hochschule Harz
Medieninformatik, Dipl. (FH)
Oct 1999 - Mar 2000

Fachhochschule Wedel
Medieninformatik

Languages

German, English

About me

I started my career as a software developer and successively worked in areas that interested me since I was a child. The most important two of those: Virtual Reality and after that Games. I became a pretty neat software engineer (according to my colleagues) and also started to lead projects and later teams. During all these years I recognized that there are the same issues driving everybody mad over and over again, regardless of company size and industry. And these issues do not result from technical problems or tight schedules.

I learned more about this building up a team delivering Release Engineering services. Not only was it our task to take care of build processes, VCSs and so on. Also it was our task to evangelize developers and managers and teach them why things like TDD, reviews, CI, CD, etc make sense. I still feel very connected to these topics but by now have taken over a pure management role. Which brought even more insight to me about what the design errors of organizations are these days.

The main learning for me right now is, that while in the scope of projects a lot of good ideas and practices popped up, management itself still works like 20 years ago. Optimistically speaking. This is why the ideas of Stoos, Management 3.0 and of course all the items from the Agile toolbox really fascinate me. The question is: how can we develop cool stuff in time while making sure the jobs&lives of us, the tech guys, stay or become again enjoyable? How can we do this living in times in which most companies are driven by shareholder value?

So after working on various tough technical challenges earlier this is what drives me now. I am excited to see that many people in Hamburg and over the world feel the same way and more and more related communities are arising. Maybe we manage to make our companies and in the end the world a slightly better place together?