DENIS BAUER
CTO & CPO | Seed Investor | Startup Mentor
8+ years of top-level management experience in high-growth startup companies, defining overall company vision and strategy and interfacing with other C-Levels, management team and investors
20+ years of experience designing and building large-scale software engineering projects covering the whole lifecycle from ideation and requirements engineering through design and development to operations and maintenance
Managing diverse development teams locally, nearshore in Romania and offshore in India using agile methodologies and processes with up to 40 people
Deep technical expertise in modern cloud architectures, developed on different platforms with .NET, Java or Python using a broad range of frameworks, using different cloud services
Managing different internal & external stakeholders as well as IT vendor relationships
- Lead a cross-functional product team of data engineers, machine learning engineers and data scientists through the implementation phases with rapid prototyping
- A/B testing the new recommendation engine against the plain-vanilla search infrastructure finding an uplift of 20% in conversion rate
- Invention, design and user testing of the first concepts of JobCoach together with a Product Designer, Product Manager and Lead Developer
- Lead a development team through the implementation phases with rapid prototyping
- Guide the commercial launch of JobCoach including securing a trademark and marketing initiatives
- Architect for all client components (Silverlight and Mobile frontends, ASP.NET website)
- Lead developer on a development team of 10+ members across three different partner companies
- Interface between customer, local and nearshore development team, design agency and testing teams
- Stabilization Lead managing bug triaging, quality metrics and reporting for shipping the first version of the product
- Definition of the development process (based on SCRUM) and implementation in TFS