Martin Gross - Product Management for Medical Portal

Q: Where is Martin based?

Martin is based in Bad Homburg, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Martin speak?

Martin speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary), Portuguese (Elementary) .

Q: How many years of experience does Martin have?

Martin has at least 21 years of experience. During this time, Martin has worked in at least 17 different roles and for 11 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months . Note that Martin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Martin's latest experience?

Martin's most recent position is Product Management for Medical Portal at MedTech Startup .

Q: What companies has Martin worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Martin has worked for MedTech Startup , DevOps & Efficiency Consulting for Various Companies , Sabbatical , BWI , and Commerzbank .

Q: Which industries is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Aerospace and Defense , and Tourism and Hospitality . Martin also has some experience in Banking and Finance , Insurance , and Transportation and Logistics .

Q: Which business areas is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Project Management , and Quality Assurance (QA) . Martin also has some experience in Product Development and Operations .

Q: Which industries has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Banking and Finance , and Aerospace and Defense .

Q: Which business areas has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Product Development , and Operations .

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Bad Homburg, Germany

Experience

Apr 2025 - Present

11 months

Product Management for Medical Portal

MedTech Startup

Product strategy and roadmap development for a digital health portal
Requirements engineering and feature prioritization
Defining user stories and backlog management
Prototype development
Introducing continuous delivery
Search engine optimization
Tech environment: Claude Code, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Agentic Coding, TypeScript, React, AstroJS, PostgreSQL, JetBrains IntelliJ, Netlify, Supabase, GitHub Actions, Git, DevOps, Continuous Delivery

Sep 2024 - Present

1 year 6 months

DevOps & Efficiency Consultant

DevOps & Efficiency Consulting for Various Companies

Analyzing and optimizing software development processes
Value stream mapping to identify inefficient processes and bottlenecks
Improving team collaboration and communication structures
Measuring and improving the developer experience
Recommending DevOps practices adoption
Targeted use of Agentic Coding
Coaching managers and teams
Tech environment: various tech stacks depending on client, agile methods, Lean, DevOps, Mural, value stream mapping

Feb 2024 - Aug 2024

7 months

Sabbatical

Time off with a focus on family

Dec 2022 - Jan 2024

1 year 2 months

Product Owner

BWI

Member of the product management and product owner team for the cloud platform
Development of cloud services for software developers
Organizing and leading use case workshops
Defining use cases with product stakeholders
Requirements engineering
Security: VS-NfD, BSI IT baseline protection, Zero Trust, IAM, VPC
Advancing the roadmap and target chain
Measuring and improving the platform's user-friendliness
Defining a methodology to measure the developer experience
Developing test scenarios, training testers and observers
Organizing and conducting test sessions
Processing the results and deriving action items
Presenting insights and results to stakeholders
Planning the implementation of improvements with product owners
Facilitating the weekly product owner meeting
Introducing and coordinating focus topics for quarterly planning
Tech environment: VMware, Kubernetes, Helm charts, Kyverno, ArgoCD, Crossplane, HashiCorp Vault, Linkerd, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Grafana, MinIO, Artifactory, Python, Nexus, Sysdig, Active Directory, GitLab, Git, Docker, Jira, Confluence, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, ITIL, CI/CD, IoT, BSI baseline protection, VS-NfD, mTLS

Jun 2021 - Oct 2022

1 year 5 months

DevOps Transformation Coach

Commerzbank

Assessment of DevOps capabilities
Workshop facilitation
Value Stream Mapping
Drive DevOps practices
Scale DevOps coaching
Develop learning paths for technical teams
Coaching teams and Product Owners to adopt DevOps principles and overcome current challenges
Identify bottlenecks in software delivery
Improve operations through value stream mapping
Accelerate software delivery to customers
Establish a continuous improvement mindset
Align development and operations
Establish a collaborative culture
Tech environment: Java, Continuous Quality Assurance, OpenShift, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE, Mural, Git, Bitbucket, Docker, Jira, Confluence, Scrum, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, SAFe

Mar 2020 - Oct 2020

8 months

BiPRO Web Services Project Manager

R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG

Updating and gradually migrating the BiPRO API services to the on-premise cloud as microservices
Advising projects to reach operational readiness, including monitoring and incident handling
Designing and implementing optimization measures
Coordinating development and operations of BiPRO web services for new features, go-live, changes, and incidents
Implementing continuous improvements according to DevOps and agile principles
Defining and applying requirements for maintainability and operations, and optimizing operational processes towards observability
Documenting and presenting results to the project team and stakeholders with recommendations
Product management and building collaboration with other Scrum teams
Test design and planning, coordinating technical and functional acceptance tests, automating tests
Release planning, performing deployments, and running microservices deployment pipelines
Extending the operations manuals
Conducting a feasibility study for migrating three BiPRO services to a new platform
Technology environment: BiPRO STS (Security Token Service), standards 420 and 430, JBoss Wildfly, Softproject X4, Maven, Ant, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, microservices, Java, Spring Boot, private cloud, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Rancher, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Instana, WSDL, REST, SOAPUI, Postman, MinIO, GitHub, Docker, CA Harvest, ITSM, HP Service Manager, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum

Feb 2019 - Mar 2020

1 year 2 months

Hybrid

DevOps and Cloud Transformation

Lufthansa Cargo AG

Proof of concept and setting up the DevOps organization for hybrid operation of legacy applications and new microservices in Microsoft Azure (Strangler Fig pattern)
Collaborating with stakeholders, external vendors, and Scrum Masters to integrate Scrum teams and operations team in the DevOps environment
Planning, running, and moderating workshops (e.g. pre-mortem) for decision making
Redesigning and optimizing incident and release management as well as ITIL processes for DevOps
Introducing on-call services for additional teams, process visualization, and retrospectives
Defining requirements and specifications for monitoring and observability
Implementing continuous improvements according to DevOps, Lean, and Agile principles
Technology environment: ITIL, Microsoft Azure Cloud, AKS, Azure Monitor, Kubernetes, Istio, microservices, Java, Sonarqube, Jenkins, ElasticSearch, Kibana, ServiceNow, ITSM, VMWare, Spring Boot, JIRA, Scrum

Sep 2017 - Nov 2018

1 year 3 months

Project Lead for ESB and JEE Web Applications Migration

Deutsche Leasing

Agile project management
Creating and coordinating project proposals with stakeholders, managing multiple parallel projects
Planning and coordinating scope, effort, schedule, budget, and quality assurance
Managing requirements, security updates, and dependencies
Proof of concept for migration to a new system
Managing an Indian offshore developer and internal teams
Implementing agile Scrum methods such as daily scrum, burn-down charts, and retrospectives
Coordinating new architecture and requirement alignments with offshore and internal architects
Coordinating onsite tests and approvals
Project control, tracking deliverables, project reporting, stakeholder and risk management

Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

1 year 3 months

SOA Architecture and Governance

R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG

Introducing centralized quality assurance for SOA
Introducing Kanban for the quality assurance workflow
Participating in Scrum events as a stakeholder
Advising developers and projects on interface modeling and service design
Defining the SOA roadmap
Quality assurance of web services and XML schemas
Defining policies and style guides for service design
Developing and programming Java tools for automated service design validation
Developing Ruby scripts to generate versioned service structures
Coordinating and supporting project topics, task planning, status tracking, reporting, and meeting facilitation

Jan 2013 - Dec 2016

4 years

Project Lead Lufthansa SOA and Middleware Platform

Amadeus IT Group

Takeover project and knowledge transfer from the previous provider
Defining, implementing, and establishing processes with teams in Bangalore and Nice
First point of contact for functional issues and change requests between Lufthansa Group and Amadeus
Feasibility analysis, cost-benefit evaluation, and implementation planning
Project management for LH eJournal and Concur Travel Management integration projects
Planning projects with offshore and local teams and coordinating with third parties
Solution and delivery management
Supporting the launch of Lufthansa OpenAPI and planning the release
Technology environment: Mashery API Management, SOA, Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco EMS, ESB, Aurea Actional, OpenAPI, Java, web services, WSDL, REST, XML, XSD, Axis2, CXF, SOAP, Ruby on Rails, git, Maven, Oracle WLS

Jan 2009 - Dec 2013

5 years

Subproject Manager myIDTravel System

Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Subproject leadership for airline integration projects, coordinating specifications and international conference calls
Architecture, customization and reimplementation of external interfaces
Specification and implementation of additional web service interfaces, supporting developers and customers
Implementation of a public/private key system to secure external interfaces, automating certificate creation and WS-Security
Operational support of web applications and web services including problem analysis, performance optimization and load testing
Pre-sales support and coordination with airline customers
Member of the Scrum development team and incident analysis
Technological environment: Java, ESB, XML, OTA XML, Axis2, SOAP, Apache ServiceMix, Tomcat, mySQL, Ruby, JUnit, RSpec, Subversion, git, Maven, SOAP UI, Selenium, IntelliJ IDEA, JIRA, Jenkins, JMeter

Jan 2007 - Dec 2009

3 years

Product Development myIDTravel Booking System

Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Improving product quality through organizational and tool-supported measures
Introducing a continuous integration system and PMD as well as Findbugs for code quality assurance
Switching to Maven as the build tool and Subversion as version control
Introducing a wiki as a knowledge base with example implementations and architecture documentation
Mentoring and training junior developers
Advising the program manager on architecture issues
Specifying external interfaces (WSDL, OTA), including compatibility tests and WS-Security
Preparing deployment and production rollout, organizing integration projects and user acceptance tests
Load testing and performance analysis

Jan 2007 - Dec 2007

1 year

Feasibility Study Migration of Highly Available Middleware

Lufthansa Systems

Evaluating software upgrade options for middleware components on BEA Weblogic Server, Tuxedo and eLink
Upgrading from JDK 1.4 to JDK5 and JDK6
Investigating Solaris OS upgrades
Assessing upgrade scenarios, actions and alternatives
Technological environment: BEA Weblogic Server, Tuxedo, eLink, JDK5, JDK6

Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

2 years

Software Architecture Team Member for Passenger Management System

Lufthansa Systems

Collaborating in the software architecture team for a passenger management system
Components: XML Rules Engine, Swing GUI, Struts Internet Booking Engine, XML middleware
Requirements management (functional and non-functional)
Advising on technical feasibility and developing test concepts
Quality assurance of external software through testing and code reviews
Technical contact for offshore teams in Ireland, Hungary, Belarus and India
Test automation and error analysis
Technological environment: Java, J2EE, EJB, XML, XSD, XSLT, SOAP, BEA Weblogic 9, Tomcat, Oracle RAC, mySQL, Ruby, JUnit, CVS

Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

1 year

Technical Project Manager for Runtime Configuration and Monitoring

Lufthansa Systems

Technical project management and coordination of offshore resources in Hungary
Designing software architecture for highly available online configuration
Implementing a central, database-driven configuration system for runtime changes
Developing online monitoring for EJB components and integrating with Nagios
Extending the logging system for distributed troubleshooting and analysis
Developing the data model and implementing the data access layer
Technological environment: BEA Weblogic 8.1, MySQL, SQL, J2EE, EJB, iBatis, Hibernate, JDBC, XML, JMX, SNMP

Jan 2005 - Dec 2006

2 years

Performance Testing Engineer for EAI Components

Lufthansa Systems

Investigation of the behavior of EAI software components under full load
Evaluation of a third-party Java component for server deployment
Development of proof-of-concept applications and technical concepts
Definition of stress test cases, load tests with JMeter, and development of a JMeter plugin
Implementation of load generators and sinks for EJBs
Analysis of memory leaks, response times, CPU and memory usage
Evaluation, documentation, and presentation of results
Technology environment: BEA WebLogic 8.1, J2EE, EJB, CORBA, JMeter, XML, JUnit

Jan 2004 - Dec 2005

2 years

SOA Web Services Implementation in EAI Middleware

Lufthansa Systems

Member of the architecture team for introducing J2EE web services in the ZAMBAS EAI system
Identification of best practices for web service design (versioning, compatibility)
Evaluation of the BEA WLS Web Service Framework
Development of guidelines for service routing, security, logging, and error handling
Implementation of SOAP interfaces for existing EJBs
Definition of WSDL and XML Schema-based interfaces
Creation of Ant scripts for build and deployment
Implementation of a web service routing handler and test client
Test concept for non-functional and load testing, and JSP-based UI for SOAP routing
Technology environment: SOA, BEA WebLogic 8.1, Apache Axis, EJB, XML, JAXB, Ant, JUnit

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Information Technology (15.5 years), Aerospace and Defense (10 years), Tourism (7 years), Banking and Finance (2.5 years), Insurance (2 years), and Healthcare (1 year).

Information Technology

Aerospace and Defense

Tourism

Banking and Finance

Insurance

Healthcare

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Information Technology (19.5 years), Project Management (12.5 years), Quality Assurance (9 years), Product Development (6.5 years), and Operations (6.5 years).

Information Technology

Project Management

Quality Assurance

Product Development

Operations

Summary

Over 20 years of experience in software development as a project manager, product owner, software architect, and DevOps coach. Clients include Lufthansa, R+V Insurance, Amadeus, Deutsche Leasing, Commerzbank, and BWI.

Skills

Leading Technical, Multinational, And Distributed/remote Teams, Acting As Interface Between Business And It, Feasibility Studies, Systems And Methods
Agility, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Value Stream Mapping, Participative Decision Making
Cloud Strategy And 'Cloud Native' Solutions, Improving Development And Deployment Processes, Continuous Integration/delivery, It Security, Agile Software Development

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Spanish

Elementary

Portuguese

Elementary

Education

TU Darmstadt

Diploma in Engineering · Darmstadt, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Advanced ScrumMaster

A-CSM

Certified DevOps Coach

DASA

Certified ScrumMaster

CSM

Profile

Created

February 2025

Last Update

January 2026

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Martin based?

Martin is based in Bad Homburg, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Martin speak?

Martin speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary), Portuguese (Elementary).

How many years of experience does Martin have?

Martin has at least 21 years of experience. During this time, Martin has worked in at least 17 different roles and for 11 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months. Note that Martin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Martin be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Martin would be well-suited for roles such as: Product Management for Medical Portal, DevOps & Efficiency Consultant, Sabbatical.

What is Martin's latest experience?

Martin's most recent position is Product Management for Medical Portal at MedTech Startup.

What companies has Martin worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Martin has worked for MedTech Startup, DevOps & Efficiency Consulting for Various Companies, Sabbatical, BWI, and Commerzbank.

Which industries is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Aerospace and Defense, and Tourism and Hospitality. Martin also has some experience in Banking and Finance, Insurance, and Transportation and Logistics.

Which business areas is Martin most experienced in?

Martin is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Project Management, and Quality Assurance (QA). Martin also has some experience in Product Development and Operations.

Which industries has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT), Banking and Finance, and Aerospace and Defense.

Which business areas has Martin worked in recently?

Martin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Product Development, and Operations.

What is Martin's education?

Martin holds a Bachelor from TU Darmstadt.

Does Martin have any certificates?

Martin has 3 certificates. These include: Advanced ScrumMaster, Certified DevOps Coach, and Certified ScrumMaster.

What is the availability of Martin?

Martin is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Martin?

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