Philipp Hauer

Team Topology - Grew my product group from 30 to 51 engineers and engineering managers (4 teams to 6 teams). Drove multiple team topology changes (splitting and merging teams) while ensuring decisions are based on careful evaluation and buy-in from the teams. People and Culture - Led multiple initiatives to grow the Engineering Managers across our organization by creating an EM Curriculum (skill tree) and EM competencies (leveling criteria), extending their responsibilities to delivery. I especially grew my EMs by running weekly knowledge-sharing sessions, structured 1-1s, and weekly coaching sessions. Helped one of my EMs to become Head of Engineering and hired 4 EMs. Coached them through tough situations. - Drove the introduction of the Exploration & Exchange Days. A quarterly hacking day-like format that significantly contributed to the culture of growth, collaboration, and enthusiasm in Product Engineering. Received 96,7% positive feedback. - Led my teams through tough circumstances and changes like team topology adaptions, multiple layoffs, return to office, and reorganizations by guiding them along their change curve while staying authentic and ensuring the company's goals were communicated and understood. Delivery and Process - Ensured a smooth roadmap planning by dependency workshops, rolling out an approach for capacity planning and estimations. During roadmap delivery, supported the teams by unblocking them in case of customer escalations, unexpected dependencies, and challenges. - Contributed to the product discovery process by challenging PR/FAQs and PADs to ensure we are working on the feature with the best effort-value-ratio. - Cascaded company priorities down to the teams and ensured they are working towards the company's goals. - Drove an initiative to gain more data into where our efforts are spent (product initiatives vs. KTLO and incidents) to make better decisions for capacity planning, headcount planning and reporting ROI to the board.

- Led the domain “Digital Asset Management” and three development teams. - Reports: 11 in total. 8 direct reports (devs, tech lead, team lead) and 3 indirect reports via a team lead. - Contributed to the transformation of the IT department into domain-driven divisions (inverse Conway maneuver) by proposing the creation of the domain and its team setup. - Improved the domain organization e.g. by splitting one big team into three focused teams leading to more autonomy and higher efficiency. - Staffed the teams for the planned business and technical projects while balancing the strength and preferences of the devs with the business priorities. - Ensured personal growth of the devs by regular 1-1s, feedback, performance reviews, and promotions. Promoted three reports to senior and leadership roles. - Mentored and coached two new team leads and tech leads with frequent 1-1s where I challenged and praised them and pointed to technical, interpersonal, and management skills that should be improved. - Provided leadership training for all managers of the company. Topics: Team Manager’s Toolkit for 1-1s, Peer Feedback Tools, Interview Guide, Performance Reviews with a Skill Matrix. - Performed many interviews with international candidates and hired several employees. Developed a hiring process, interview guide, and required competence matrix. Interviewed candidates for devs, tech leads, team leads, POs, and CTOs. - Led the domain remotely and established practices to cope with the challenges of remote work like focussing on async communication, compensating the lack of socializing, providing a day structure, and protecting focus. - Drove and coordinated technical projects like legacy removal by extracting and rewriting parts of a monolith belonging to the domain.

- Technical specialist - Development of an internal framework with Java, Vaadin, Guice, QueryDSL - Infrastructure for development, build, and continuous integration - Holding training about Vaadin, clean code, Java 7, Java 8, and Oomph - Eclipse ecosystem (RCP, xtext, xtend)

Optimization of web-based real-time Collaboration, JavaScript Ecosystem, Operational Transformation, SAP Gravity

Web Development, C#, ASP.NET, DevExpress, JavaScript, Java

- Development of internal tools, Rich-Clients Support for architecture development - Java Ecosystem, Eclipse Platform, RCP, Model-Driven Software Development