ANDREAS DIETRICH WESTENDÖRPF
CTPO, Tech Leader / Enthusiast / Evangelist
Father of Frederik (born 2021)
ABOUT ME
I am a people-centric CTPO and tech leader with focus on digitization of existing and exploration of new business models in scale-up organizations. I’ve led and built tech organizations to align with business, developing technology strategy from discovery to delivery. I am a proven leader of diverse, mid-sized teams in hyper-growth and agile, rapid change environments and have proven my leadership, consulting expertise, methodological skills and industry-overarching tech experience in international projects in 11 countries.
KEY EXPERTISE
Tech Leadership, Motivation3.0
Delivery-focused Tech Strategy
User-centric Tech Product Development
Scaling Empowered Tech Product Teams
Anti-fragile Software Engineering
Tech Organization Development
Diverse Tech People & Culture
International Consulting
Agilization / Restructuring / Change Mgt.
Data Privacy & IT Security
BUSINESS OWNERSHIP
Direct staff headcount: 50-200
Managed Revenue: >12mn EUR p.a.
Managed Budget: >25mn EUR p.a.
Reporting line: direct to board / founder
Team Leadership since 2011
IT + Management Consulting since 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Emma Sleep GmbH - The Sleep Company — Chief Technology Officer (CTO) — Frankfurt a. M. (Germany) + remote, since 10/2020
Engel & Völkers Technology GmbH — Managing Director + Chief Technology Officer (CTO) — Hamburg (Germany), 3 years 7 months
Zalando SE — Head of Digital Productivity — Head of internal IT — Berlin (Germany), 2 years
KPMG WPG AG — Manager IT Consulting — Frankfurt a. M. (Germany), 1 year 5 months
Comma Soft AG — Senior Consultant — Bonn (Germany), 1 year 3 months
Detecon Inc. — Consultant — Reston, VA (USA), 5 months
Detecon International GmbH — Head of Team Data Center Management — Senior Consultant — Consultant — Business Analyst — Bonn (Germany), 5 years 5 months
Freelance — Software Engineering Consultant — St. Augustin (Germany), 1 year 10 months
Freelance — IT Administrator — Web Developer — Academic Intern — Bonn + St. Augustin (Germany), New York City, NY (USA), Cologne (Germany), 7 years 2 months
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
E-Commerce & Online Retail (D2C/B2C/B2B)
Real Estate Brokerage / PropTech
IT Services
Financial Services / Banking
Telecoms / ISP
Government / NGO
Mechanical Engineering
IT & Management Consulting
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
2000 - 2005: University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg — Computer Sciences / Media Informatics, Diploma of Science in Computer Science (M.Sc. in Computer Science) — St. Augustin (Germany)
1995 - 2000: Gymnasium Lohmar — Abitur, corresponding general qualification for university entrance 'A' levels — Lohmar (Germany)
1993 - 1995: German School Moscow — Moscow (Russia)
1987 - 1993: German School Geneva — Geneva (Switzerland)
MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS
03/2022: MACH Alliance Ambassador
01/2011: Professional Sales on Executive Level (AVINA)
12/2009: PRINCE2 Practitioner in Project Management
10/2009: PRINCE2 Foundation in Project Management
12/2008: MPLS - Architecture and Design
09/2007: ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software Architecture & Design: Legacy & modern/cloud tech patterns and architecture; RESTful and gRPC-based APIs, MicroServices, native and cross-compiled app development
Software Engineering Culture: Agile software development processes (SCRUM, Kanban, mixes), DevOps, GitFlow, Software Quality, eXtreme programming, …
Software Delivery: Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) in Cloud DevOps environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Data Analytics: Data modeling, ETL, analysis, principles of data mining & machine learning
Tech Stacks: various - Typescript/JavaScript (VueJS, ReactJS, Angular, NodeJS), Java (Spring+SpringBoot), Kotlin, golang, Python, Swift, PHP, SQL, GraphQL
VOLUNTEERING
Hochschule Bremen – City University of Applied Sciences:
Guest Lecturer 2022, 2021KaJe Jötterfunke e.V.: Founding member of the non-profit Cologne-based carnival club
Johanniter Unfallhilfe e.V.: Paramedic (Sanitätshelfer) of the civil protection unit (Katastrophenschutzeinheit)
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Computer Science fundamentals and early computing history
Classic cars (owner of a 1969 Ford Mustang 302cci Convertible)
Photography & Graphic Design
Music & HiFi
LANGUAGES
German (native)
English (fluent)
French, Russian (basic)
For an extended professional profile and detailed project list as PDF, please request directly at andreas@westendoerpf.de.