Luca Demmel
CTO & Co-Founder
Experience
Apr 2023 - Present
2 years 4 months Berlin, Germany
CTO & Co-Founder
Lucent Data GmbH
- Lucent Data offers a B2B SaaS solution supporting marketing teams to optimize customer acquisition, retention and personalization.
- Built a warehouse native customer data platform from scratc.
- Successfully onboarded the first customer.
- Built the first engineering team of 3 engineer.
- Raised 1M€ in venture capital.
Aug 2019 - Apr 2023
3 years 9 months Berlin, Germany
VP Engineering (ex: Head of Software Engineering)
numa group GmbH
- Numa is Europe’s first fully digital hospitality platform operating over 80 hotels across all major European cities with more than $100M in funding. As the first tech employee, I grew the entire engineering team from 0 to 25 people and ensured the delivery of a full-stack hospitality operating system that automates more than 80% of traditional hotel operations, delighting over 700,000 travelers.
- Built and managed 5 cross-functional remote engineering teams.
- Led the entire system architecture and delivery of a fully digital guest journey, dynamic pricing algorithms and internal operation platform.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders and product managers to shape the product roadma.
- Designed all processes around hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, project management and engineering onboarding for 25 engineers.
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
1 year 2 months Cologne, Germany
CTO & Co-Founder
Incudy GmbH
- Incudy is an agency developing scalable digital projects for agencies, brands and startups as well as incubation of tech startups.
- Ensured that all projects were realized efficiently and with highest possible technical standard.
- Architected and implemented multiple web and mobile apps using latest technologies.
Jul 2017 - Jul 2018
1 year 1 month Cologne, Germany
Software Engineer
Freelance
- Mediengruppe RTL Germany: Built a proof of concept for a highly scaleable realtime clickstream analytics solution utilizing Apache Kafk.
- real.digital (now Kaufland e-commerce): Implemented multiple new features and bugfixes within one of the largest e-commerce marketplaces in German.
- Various SME's: Architected and implemented multiple web, mobile and e-commerce projects utilizing React Native, React, NodeJs, PHP, Typescript, Wordpress, Shopware and Shopify.
Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
3 years 1 month Cologne, Germany
Software Engineer (Working Student)
Sportlädchen GmbH
- Sportlädchen is an e-commerce company, which sells all sorts of fitness products via multiple webshops and Amazon/Ebay.
- Architected and implemented internal web based analytics tools using Symfony, MySQL, Angular.
- Responsible for migrating to Shopware (in favor of Magento) and implementation of the interface between the internal ERP and Shopware using PHP.
Summary
Experienced engineering leader with a proven track record in building and managing high-performing software teams. Passionate about building digital products and thriving in fast-paced environments. My strong background in software engineering and technical leadership allows me to approach challenges with effective communication and a focus on delivering successful outcomes.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Oct 2014 - Jun 2017
European University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Science · Business Information Systems · Cologne, Germany
California State University
Computer Science · United States
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