Ulrich Abend

Leading the global development team for Lightspeed's hospitality business unit. We are providing a world-class commerce platform for our global hospitality customer base. Our distributed development team consists of the brightest minds across four continents and we are constantly looking for new people - if you are interested in shaping the future of the hospitality market consider joining this great company!

Leading the global development team for hospitality products.

In charge of the strategic direction, architecture and the distributed development teams I am building next generation SaaS apps, starting with the communications analytics SaaS service. This new SaaS offering is built on top of other Oracle IaaS/PaaS like Bare Metal Cloud Service and Big Data Cloud Service and utilizes modern open source technologies from the Apache Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Flink, Cassandra, HBase, Kafka). It is built in Scala and Python, features an elastic microservices architecture.

My objective in Oracle was to integrate Acme Packet’s products into Oracle’s portfolio. I extended my management scope to additional teams covering existing communications analytics, business intelligence network monitoring products. My overall team exceeded 60 employees, including a new team I hired in Bangalore. The team was distributed (USA, France, India and Germany). I was responsible for more than $20m of annual license and support revenues spanning across 3 product suites.

Reporting to the CTO, my main objective was to integrate IPTEGO’s products and technologies into the Acme Packet product portfolio. I was in charge of further growing the development teams in Bedford, MA and Berlin, Germany, while also supporting the sales and pre-sales teams in key customer meetings and conferences. An important part of my role was to introduce agile software development methodologies like Scrum and Kanban to other teams in the organization. In 2013 Acme Packet was sold to Oracle.

With our products becoming mature, my main focus changed to business operations and finance. I managed to secure VC funding from Intel Capital and XAnge, while I was still maintaining ultimate responsibility for our core technology and the engineering team. Over time I was passing more and more engineering responsibility our newly appointed CTO. As the final step in IPTEGO's history I was in charge of negotiating and executing the successful sale of the company to Acme Packet, a NASDAQ-listed company.

I have co-founded and bootstrapped the start-up company IPTEGO to become a leading software vendor in the telecom market, providing world-class carrier products and partnering with leading organizations. My invention of a passive IP network monitoring technology was the basis for our "Palladion" software, which lead the market through rapid innovation and technological advantages.

As the first employee of the company my mission was to build the team and take the SIP Express Router open source software into commercial use. I have built products and services on top of it, which we sold successfully to major telecom service providers around the globe. Only 18 month after it's foundation iptelorg was acquired by Tekelec to include our technology and products into their portfolio.

Part time studies in parallel to computer science

Databases, communication networks, software development