Florian Otte
Interim CTO
Experience
Interim CTO
Horsemapp GmbH
- I am supporting a company in the horse industry to get the product up and running.
- Launch of a React Native iOS & Android App from scratch within 6 weeks.
- Software Architecture of the whole stack.
- Replacement of the Indian developer team towards a well performing development team.
- Optimizing product and tech structure together with the CPO.
Technology Consulting / Interim CTO
Five Lakes Consulting
- As a freelancer, I am helping other companies getting things done in these areas:
- Software Architecture
- Technical Sparring
- Building dev teams
- Mvp & concept creation
- GDPR & Security
- C-Level advisory
- Technical DD
- Proactive Monitoring
CTO
Keller Group GmbH
- Company context: >100 employees / 100 mio € turnover.
- Changing and supporting the way the development teams work: from a hierarchical structure into self-managed and purpose-driven product teams with clear roles and responsibilities.
- Implementing and supporting that structure.
- Re-newing the whole IT architecture from a monolith approach into a scalable headless & composable microservice architecture to be able to adapt to future needs instantly.
- Optimizing purchasing & logistics processes and connecting vendors via EDI to automize the purchase 2 pay process.
- Continued general responsibilities include management of the software development team, budget responsibility, operation and monitoring of cloud infrastructure, A/B usability optimisation tests, technical support of the business intelligence team, and responsibility for corporate data protection.
- 2021: Implementing new EDI processes to be able to connect to 3rd party vendors supporting consignation business modells and drop shipping.
- 2020: Replacement of the legacy ERP system into a future proof ERP and technically connecting a new and bigger warehouse due to a warehouse service-provider change.
Managing Director & CTO
Keller Group GmbH
- Company context: >100 employees / 100 mio € turnover.
- Part of the Keller executive team together with the Keller founders.
- Establishment and management of the software development team consisting of 30 near shoring developers plus 4 dev teamleads in the Ukraine.
- Budget responsibility in the 7-digit range.
- Responsible for the setup and operation of all 19 webshops & the Keller sMILES apps for iOS and Android.
- Operation and monitoring > 160 VMs in Google Cloud.
- Establishment of a 24/7 on-call system.
- Performing A / B usability optimisation tests.
- Technical support of the 3-FTE business intelligence team.
- Implementation and use of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Suite, NewRelic, Pingdom, Stackdriver, Selenium, Cloudflare, Pagerduty.
- Introduction and use of technologies such as PHP 8, MySQL 8, Laravel, Vue.js, daily deployments via go.cd, Solr, RabbitMQ, Elastic.
- Establishment of an Enterprise Information Security Policy and responsible for corporate data protection.
- 2019: Replacement of the legacy / monolith system consisting of OXID eSales into a headless system in the cloud, with microservice APIs in the background (including order management and account management).
- 2019: Introduction of Fivetran and Snowflake with Tableau as BI system.
- 2018: Launch of own shops for the premium lifestyle sub-brand (including 6 other country shops).
- 2018: Development of the Keller sMILES app for iOS and Android. Keller Smiles connects to 3rd party tracking APIs like Garmin and rewards the athlete for activities.
- 2017: Development of an own PIM system for the administration of all physical products incl. real-time pricing platform.
- 2016: launching a physical store/showroom in Munich with a POS connected to the webstores and vice versa (ship to store, order store to home).
Founder & CEO
Think Possible GmbH
- Think Possible specializes in the purchase, optimization and sale of web portals.
- Evaluation of possible investments.
- Management of all web portals.
- Software Development.
IT Director
Keller Group GmbH
- Company context: 20 employees / 4 mio € turnover in 2012.
- Establishment of a second employee in IT in Munich.
- From 2012, establishment of the near-shoring team in Ukraine (3 FTEs).
- Conception and software development (full-stack) of 2 shops.
- Selection and implementation of the ERP system (eFulfilment).
- Connection of an external warehouse service provider (stocks, goods receipts, goods issues, shipping).
- Set up KPI standard reporting.
- IT Support / Helpdesk.
Founder & CTO
restaurant-kritik.de
- Founding and development of Germany's largest restaurant guide.
- Conception, programming & operation of the entire portal.
- Conception and implementation of a backend for restaurant operators.
- Conception and implementation of an affiliate program to increase restaurant ratings & reviews.
Freelancer
Rhomon Webprojekte
- Conceptual design and implementation of over 50 internet projects as a freelancer.
- software-development.
- Consulting.
Summary
I am a senior leader of complex technology environments with many years of web development experience, as well as managing software development and product teams. Currently I am available to help and advice companies to build internet products, teams and to further digitalize products & processes. Responsible for tech-strategy & tech-vision, cyber security, DevOps, hands-on solutions as well as team development, I empowered an agile tech team of 40 FTEs towards KELLER business goals until the company was liquidated. As a full-stack programmer, I programmed the first web shops of the KELLER Group GmbH and played a key role as CTO in increasing Florian sales growth and reaching business goals. Between 2012 and 2019, as Managing Director, I was also responsible for various key-business Otte decisions together with the founders within the KELLER Group executive team, growing over 100 employees, 19 internationally awarded web shops and two unique apps. From 2019 until today, my focus was changing and supporting the way the development teams work: from a hierarchical structure into self-managed and purpose-driven product teams with clear roles and responsibilities. Besides implementing and supporting that structure, I also focused on re-newing the whole IT architecture from a monolith approach into a scalable headless & composable microservice architecture to be able to adapt to future needs instantly. My focus lately was on optimizing purchasing & logistics processes and connecting vendors via EDI to automize the purchase 2 pay process. I have international experience through several years abroad in various countries worldwide and like to go hiking (I climbed up to 5895m Mt Kilimanjaro) or skiing in the Alps in my free time.
Languages
Education
Universidad de Zaragoza
Online Marketing · Zaragoza, Spain
Hogeschool Drenthe
International Business & Languages · Emmen, Netherlands
IGS "Willy Brandt"
Abitur · Magdeburg, Germany · 2,0
Certifications & licenses
Professional Scrum Master PSM I
Scrum.org
Cyber Security: Managing Risk in the Information Age
Harvard University
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