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Patrick Döring

C-Level Advisor | Engineering & QA Lead

Patrick Döring
Au in der Hallertau, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 1 month

C-Level Advisor | Engineering & QA Lead

Freelancer

  • Supports companies as a C-level advisor, technical sparring partner, and engineering leader in scaling, structure, and technical excellence
  • Over 15 years of experience, including more than 6 years in leadership with teams of 18+ engineers and budget responsibility over €2 million
  • Direct collaboration with C-level, product, and compliance

Leadership & Organizational Development:

  • Leading international cross-functional teams (18+ engineers) in agile environments
  • Experience with Scrum, Kanban, OKRs through hands-on implementation
  • Close collaboration with C-level stakeholders
  • Strategic input on engineering roadmaps and organizational structures

Engineering Strategy & Developer Enablement:

  • Building and rolling out developer productivity tools like GitHub Copilot and Synergizer
  • Scaling, redesigning, and strategically advancing the observability architecture (Datadog, Grafana Cloud), including distributed tracing, metric design, SLOs, logging, and cost optimization
  • Establishing developer enablement structures: coding guides, QA practices
  • Consolidating CI/CD and DevOps toolchains for improved efficiency

People & Culture:

  • Mentoring and coaching talents and leaders
  • Active role in recruiting and team development
  • Performance management and retention (< 5% turnover in scaled teams)
  • Designing career paths and competency models in engineering
Jan 2019 - Dec 2025
7 years
Munich, Germany

Lead Engineer

ProSiebenSat.1

  • Technical and functional leadership of various projects to increase developer productivity, code quality, and observability

Medien Synergizer – AI-powered workflow platform & prompt engine:

  • Led the engineering team (5 members)
  • Designed, architected, and integrated Gen AI components with Python/Flask APIs, React/TypeScript frontend, and a visual prompt flow builder
  • Integrated private GPT models for GDPR-compliant solutions

GitHub Copilot – Rollout & Developer Productivity:

  • Led an AI enablement team (5 members)
  • Coordinated the company-wide rollout of GitHub Copilot
  • Defined guidelines, workshops, and analytics; hands-on sessions, hackathons, training
  • Impact: +25% developer productivity, reduced manual effort, improved code quality

Code Quality Platform:

  • Built and managed a company-wide code quality platform with Sonar, Qodana, and Teamscale
  • Led an engineering team (4 members)
  • Implemented unified coding guidelines, code coverage, quality gates, and feedback loops
  • Impact: -35% critical bugs, -25% pull request cycles

Observability Migration – Grafana Cloud:

  • Architected and executed the migration from self-hosted Grafana + Prometheus to Grafana Cloud
  • Led an engineering team (5 members)
  • Consolidated dashboards and alerts, set up ownership models

Observability Architecture – Datadog:

  • Consolidated distributed Datadog instances into a central sub-org using Terraform
  • Developed a tagging strategy, defined SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
  • Established distributed tracing across microservices
Jan 2016 - Dec 2019
4 years
Munich, Germany

Senior Test Manager

MaibornWolff

Jan 2011 - Dec 2016
6 years
Munich, Germany

IT-Consultant

Sogeti Deutschland GmbH

Jan 2008 - Dec 2010
3 years
Hallbergmoos, Germany

Quality Engineer

Euro-Log AG

Summary

I support companies as a C-level advisor, technical sparring partner, and engineering leader when scaling, structure, and technical excellence are in demand. I bring over 15 years of experience, including more than 6 years in leadership roles with teams of 18+ engineers and budget responsibility exceeding €2 million, working directly with C-level, product, and compliance teams.

Whether as a C-level advisor, interim engineering lead, or consultant for structural scaling, I work hands-on, remotely, focusing on clarity, impact, and sustainable solutions.

Skills

Leadership & Organizational Development

  • Leading International Cross-functional Teams (18+ Engineers) In Agile Environments
  • Experience With Agile Methods (Scrum, Kanban, Okrs) Through Hands-on Implementation In Various Projects
  • Close Collaboration With C-level Stakeholders
  • Strategic Input On Engineering Roadmaps And Organizational Structures

Engineering Strategy & Developer Enablement

  • Building And Rolling Out (Developer) Productivity Tools Like Github Copilot And Synergizer To Support Ai-driven Development
  • Scaling, Redesigning, And Strategically Advancing The Observability Architecture (Including With Datadog & Grafana Cloud), Covering Distributed Tracing, Metric Design, Slos, Logging, And Cost Optimization
  • Establishing Developer Enablement Structures: Coding Guides, Qa Practices, Etc.
  • Consolidating Ci/cd And Devops Toolchains For Improved Efficiency

People & Culture

  • Mentoring And Coaching Talents And Leaders
  • Active Role In Recruiting And Team Development
  • Performance Management And Retention (Under 5% Turnover In Scaled Teams)
  • Designing Career Paths And Competency Models In Engineering

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2006 - Jun 2008
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Apprenticeship · IT Specialist in Application Development

Certifications & licenses

Cmap Mobile App Testing – Foundation Level

Datadog Fundamentals

Datadog Kubernetes Fundamentals

Datadog Log Management Fundamentals

Deep Learning Nanodegree

Udacity

The 7 Worst Communication Mistakes

Leading Without Direct Authority

ISTQB Certified Tester – Advanced Level, Test Manager

Machine Learning By Stanford University

Coursera

Sre – The Big Picture

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