The multinational, family owned Voith Group is a leading company in the industrial machinery and mechanical engineering industry. Worldwide it has over 19.000 employees and in 2017/2018 it declared a sales volume of 4.209 billion. Voith has in recent years strongly invested into renewing their offering, extending it to serve its customers with IoT platform services.
I startet as replacement for a Senior Cloud Architect in the team, just after the initial transition from an on-premise-only to a containerized cloud based installation had been delivered. I quickly took over additional tasks outside of the DevOps area helped re-juvenating the codebase and application, by assuming additional Frontend and Backend responsibilities whilst advocating to dare greater refactorings.
Equipped with broad experience in Frontend and Backend, I continued to constantly stand up for quality improvements, drove proactively a database cleanup initiative, renewed the neglected protractor based end-to-end tests and was generally caring for product quality, whilst advancing with backlog driven development tasks.
I was a technical advisor for the Product Owner and a partner for the Scrum Master, even taking over temporarily the Scrum Master position.
The inherited, rancher-based cloud installation was transformed by me into a Kubernetes-based cloud installation, in alignment with the platform team of Voith.
Additionally, I positioned myself as the driver of renewing the existing application. As end-of-lifetime for core frameworks were exceeded, I created an architecture approach for a step-by-step transition, thereby allowing a cost efficient approach to keep the application maintainable. Further I spearheaded the technical transition in the development team and motivated the team to realize several proof of concepts.
Furthermore, I added a state-of-the art RESTful api functionality to the old framework including authentication, validation, and model-binding, to allow for a better standardized integration with third-party consumers of the service without the need to upgrade the framework.