Matthias Herz

Technical Product Owner & Solution Architect for Cloud - AI - DevOps

Matthias Herz
Forchheim, Germany

Experience

Oct 2024 - Present
5 months

Technical Product Owner - AI & Data Platform on AWS

Vorwerk

  • AI & data platform for data lakes, data warehousing (DWH) and new AI services
  • The platform is based on Databricks, AWS, and Azure Entra ID
  • The development and the operation are done with an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach through Terraform, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab CICD
  • Additionally, the team supports, technically consults, solution architects, and implements various AI & Data use cases to realize new business applications
Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
1 year 8 months

Product Owner - DevOps and IaC (AWS & Azure)

Allianz

  • Corporate cloud landing zone in Hub-Spoke architecture for all Allianz business units to move their business safely and scalable to the cloud
  • The Hubs form a global mesh for private communication in AWS / Azure including on-premise connections, proxies, and private DNS
  • The Spokes are the accounts, VPCs / VNETs, subnets, IAM / RBAC setup, and the integration layer for other corporate services on Azure and AWS
  • Automation is achieved with Terraform, Crossplane, GitHub Actions, and native Azure / AWS services realizing a novel Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach
Apr 2021 - Present
3 years 11 months
Forchheim, Germany

Founder & CEO

IPB Innovation & Product Builders

Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
1 year 11 months

Product Owner & Solution Architect - AI & Data Platform

RTL DATA

  • The product was a semantic metadata platform as enterprise knowledge graph to be used for semantic recommenders and semantic smart search algorithms
  • The core was to create this Knowledge Graph with AI, ML, Natural Language Processing (NLP), semantic embeddings, and Ontologies
  • The multi-cloud solution consisted of numerous machine learning microservices, ETL pipelines on GCP, BigQuery as DWH, AWS Neptune as Knowledge Graph, and Azure OpenAI Services
  • For the ease of usage, a content exploration app was developed with Angular and FastAPI to retrieve information from the knowledge graph through a web app
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
2 years

Product Owner & Solution Architect - Predictive Maintenance

Siemens AG

  • AI Service to detect and predict machine failures and required maintenance for stagger cranes in logistic centers with anomaly detection algorithms
  • The software architecture was a hybrid cloud- and edge computing solution with CICD pipelines and DevOps best-practices
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
2 years

Product Owner - Analytics & Prediction Tool

Siemens AG

Internal tool for forecasting product demands over the next five years at the end of the product lifecycle (Phase-Out-Planning)

Sep 2018 - Mar 2021
2 years 7 months

Innovation Lead - AI & Digital Services

Siemens AG

The product was an end-to-end innovation process for a fast evaluation of innovation ideas. The goal was to incubate new digital products for a Siemens business unit

Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
1 year 5 months

Project Lead & Developer - Digital Twin Plug-In

Siemens AG

Plugin in SimCenter for reducing the size of large FEM models to enable real-time computations for physics-based Digital Twins for predictive maintenance solutions

Feb 2016 - Aug 2018
2 years 7 months

C++ Developer - Electric Grid Application

Siemens AG

Desktop Application for simulating the lifecycle and the optimal operation of electric grids with Batteries, various Generators, HVACs, and Consumers

Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
1 year 3 months

Project Lead & Developer - Topology Optimization

Siemens AG

New Algorithms for the Topology Optimization Module in SimCenter

Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
1 year

Tester & Developer - Java EE Application

Siemens AG

Software for Simulating Evacuation from Buildings and Trains

Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
1 year

Web App Developer - Java EE Web Application

Siemens AG

  • Web Application for bike sharing
  • Java EE Back-End, PostgreSQL Database, JavaScript Front-End
Oct 2010 - Dec 2015
4 years 3 months
Erlangen, Germany

Research Associate - Simulation of Electrolyte Fluids

University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Algorithms for Simulation of electrolyte fluids

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2010 - Aug 2014

University Erlangen

Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) · Scientific Computing, Computational Simulations · Germany

Oct 2005 - Aug 2010

University Erlangen

Master’s in Mathematics · Mathematics · Germany

Certifications & licenses

Professional Scrum Product Owner Certification