Vice President Engineering

Engineering Leadership in Healthcare Technology

Advanced to VP Engineering to lead the development organization. Successfully managed a 35-person engineering team while driving architectural transformation in healthcare AI.

Leadership & Organizational Impact

Team Leadership at Scale

• Professional and disciplinary management of the Development Department with 35 FTEs
• Budgeting, recruiting, and comprehensive team organization
• Agile transformation of software development processes across multiple teams
• Implementation of career development programs and technical mentorship

Strategic Technical Leadership

• Migration from monolith to microservices architecture (Java / TypeScript)
• Designed data flow and integration strategies for healthcare data sources
• Overall responsibility for development projects and data architecture
• Roadmap creation and OKR definition for product development

Innovation & Technical Excellence

Healthcare AI & Data Systems

• Development of ontology-based medical graph database (TUM Data Innovation Lab collaboration)
• Implementation of cloud services (Docker and Kubernetes on AWS and On-Premise)
• Certified development processes according to ISO 13485 medical device standards
• Advanced data processing pipelines for medical imaging and structured reporting

Industry Partnerships & Compliance

• Technical partner management with Siemens Healthineers and GE Healthcare
• Ensuring GDPR compliance and medical data protection standards
• Leading cross-functional initiatives with regulatory and clinical teams

This role combined significant management responsibility with technical leadership in healthcare technology.