Sebastian Erhardt
Head of Technology
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 1 monthHead of Technology
Equation AG
- Since 2025 serving as Head of Technology.
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
1 monthCo-Organizer, WirVsVirus Hackathon
Federal Government of Germany
- Organized the largest hackathon in Germany with 28,000 participants and 1,500 final projects
- Developed processes and technical guidelines
- Managed IT operations and infrastructure
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
7 monthsDeveloper
Liphardt Lab - Stanford Distributed Trust Initiative, Stanford University
- Developed distributed client/server software for the Stellar ecosystem to lower the entrance barrier for ordinary users
- Achieved over 300 million downloads
- Technologies: C++, NodeJS, React, Electron, Docker, Typescript
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
3 monthsProduct Manager / Engineering Fellow
Tech4Germany / Federal Ministry of the Interior / Federal Ministry of Finance / German Federal Centre for Information Technology
- Redesigned and developed new features using design thinking and intensive user research
- Reduced interaction time for billers on the German Federal Electronic Invoice System from 28 to 5 minutes, saving hundreds of years of wasted time
- Presented outcomes at the cabinet meeting in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz and all ministers
- Technologies: Go, MongoDB, VueJS
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
5 monthsConsultant
Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
- Conducted market analysis and competitor screening for employee engagement software market entry
- Validated and rejected product hypotheses
- Acquired partners through cold calls
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
9 monthsSupporting the Design of the Election Program
Independent / Political Parties
- Developed an artificial intelligence supported public debate platform for a significant political party in the Free States of Thuringia and Saxony
- Technologies: Go, Angular
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
11 monthsFreelancer
KM.ON by Karl Mayer
- Performed IT due diligence and developed an IT strategy
- Consulted the CEO
- Developed back-end and front-end components with Python, Scala and React
- Deployed solutions to AWS
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
5 monthsStudent Project Developer
BMW Group / Technical University of Munich
- Developed back-end and AI components for an NLP data exploration platform prototype
- Technologies: Python, Facebook LASER, Facebook FAISS, Spacy NLP
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
5 monthsDeveloper
Oxford Academic Health Science Network / CDTM
- Developed a digital prototype ecosystem for prostate cancer patients and doctors using Amazon Alexa and Amazon Dash Button
- Conducted user research and applied design thinking
- Developed back-end and front-end
- Technologies: Python, Angular
May 2018 - Jul 2019
1 year 3 monthsCo-Founder and Head of Technology
Debatoo
- Developed an artificial intelligence supported online debate platform
- Conducted user research and applied design thinking
- Designed UI
- Developed back-end in Go (golang)
- Developed front-end in Angular
- Developed AI component in Python
- Supported two major parties in German state elections
Apr 2018 - May 2019
1 year 2 monthsFreelancer
Monitor Deloitte - Center for the Long View
- Developed an artificial intelligence big data scenario analysis platform
- Designed the first click-dummy with Angular
- Architected the application and advised the project manager
- Led back-end development in Go (golang) for production
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
5 monthsDeveloper
Technical University of Munich
- Developed an artificial intelligence-based recommender system for MSG AG and Allianz SE
- Technologies: Python, Keras, GloVe
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
5 monthsDeveloper
UnternehmerTUM / Rechts der Isar University Hospital, Technical University of Munich
- Developed an Amazon Alexa application for stroke patients
- Created dialogues and interaction handlers using NodeJS
- Deployed to AWS Lambda
- Technologies: NodeJS, Alexa, AWS
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
1 year 11 monthsCo-Founder and Head of Technology
Transport Heroes (now Frachtklub)
- Developed a white-label online logistics platform for large and medium-sized logistics companies
- Conducted user research and applied design thinking
- Designed UI
- Developed back-end in Go (golang) with MySQL and Redis
- Developed front-end in Angular
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
2 years 1 monthCo-Founder and Head of Technology
BlitzMinds
- Developed a knowledge-management and user-experience platform for corporations such as Wacker, Bosch and Siemens
- Conducted user research and applied design thinking
- Designed UI
- Developed back-end in Java with Neo4J
- Developed front-end in Angular
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
3 monthsBusiness Case Developer
Fraunhofer IPA / Fraunhofer IOSB / University of Stuttgart / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / UnternehmerTUM
- Developed a business case for sensor realistic image processing software
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
2 yearsVarious Positions
Deloitte Consulting Germany & Deloitte Digital Germany
- Lead developer of a decision making software using NodeJS and AngularJS
- Lead developer for an executive training and meeting application for a leading German car manufacturer
- Consultant for a major German automotive supplier
Dec 2005 - Present
20 years 2 monthsSelf-Employed
Self-Employed
- Completed more than 200 projects for more than 80 customers in the field of front-end and back-end development, infrastructure and operations, data-science, AI and consulting.
Skills
Programming
- Go
- Python
- Java
- Scala
- Javascript
- Swift
- Objective-c
- C++
- R
- Php
- Prolog
- Haskell
- Sql
Databases
- Mysql
- Mariadb
- Postgresql
- Ms-sql
- Elasticsearch
- Couchdb
- Mongodb
- Redis
- Neo4j
Back-end
- Expressjs
- Gin
- Flask
- Django
- Play
- Laravel
- Graphql
- Rest
Front-end
- Angular
- Flutter
- Vuejs
- React
- Redux
- Jquery
- Typescript
- Html
- Css
- Amazon Alexa
Data-science
- Pytorch
- Tensor-flow
- Keras
- Scikit-learn
- Pandas
- Jupyter
- Nltk
- Spacy
- Stata
- R
Operations
- Unix/linux
- Server Administration
- Ci/cd
- Aws
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Nginx
- Apache
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Other
- Git
- Latex
- Design-thinking
- Scenario Analysis
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
ElementaryEducation
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
Munich School of Management, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
Master of Business Research, PhD Program in Management · Business Research · Munich, Germany · 1.0
Sep 2020 - Jul 2025
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; Munich School of Management, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
Doctoral Student and Research Fellow · Management · Munich, Germany
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
Master of Science, Computer Science · Computer Science · Munich, Germany · 1.4
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