Jens Comiotto-Mayer

Laying out and executing the strategic end-to-end migration of on-premises infrastructure to AWS as part of central program management; fostering collaboration among technical teams and effectively managing stakeholder engagement. Communicating strategic insights and progress to upper management and CTO; ensuring alignment and facilitating a smooth transition to cloud-based solutions.

Leading teams of Senior Software Engineers and Architects with a focus on providing tools and processes to improve in-house developer productivity and experience. Designing and implementing the introduction of OKRs on department level, collaborating with and reporting to the respective leadership team. Leading cross initiatives in preparation of an in-house cloud migration. Representing the Solution Architecture area on director level as an interim, reporting to VP.

Introduction of a service portfolio for central teams to explain and showcase their products in an outcome driven manner to diverse target audiences. Coaching project leaders and teams to successfully course correct and turn around projects at late stages. Introduction of agile methodologies to engineering teams. Facilitation of department off-sites, product vision and customer value workshops.

Conception, moderation and facilitation of workshops, design studios, delegation boards, blameless post mortems and agile retrospectives. Conception and implementation of different learning and feedback formats. Collaboration in setting up employee surveys and employer branding efforts. Coaching and initial team bootstrappings as well as individual counseling.

Implementation, maintenance and migration of datacenter and cloud infrastructure as well as technical consultancy for software development teams. Coordination of external security audits. Facilitation and moderation of agile retrospectives on an organisational level.

Conceptual design and maintenance of highly available infrastructure for web.de, GMX and mail.com. Close collaboration with in-house software development teams to smoothen deployment strategies and change management.

Technical consultancy for different research and standardization projects. System and network administration as well as security auditing and research. User support for GNU/Linux and MacOS environments.

Development of an online self-assessment service with real-time reporting for the faculties of Social Sciences, Political Sciences and Psychology. Initial technical consultancy and maintenance for InstEval, a web-based tool for the evaluation of university courses and lectures by students. GNU/Linux System Administrator at the Department of Social Science, maintenance of newsletter and web services.