Career Profile

Anton is Head of the Software Development Chapter at Siemens Financial Services in Munich, Germany. He has 18 years of experience in Software Architecture, Design and Development as well as Team Leading and IT Consulting, mainly in areas Banking and Automotive, with Java Enterprise technologies and agile methods.

He worked as Software Developer, Team Lead and IT Architect on techical solutions for various products and systems. He is the author of many Enterprise solutions in areas Web Development, System Integration, Cloud Architectures, Microservices, Database Migration and Digital Transformation.

In his role as Chapter Lead, he shaped the software development of Siemens Financial Services by extending the development team toward the Indian tech hub and by introducing the paradigm of AI-centric Spec-Driven Development.

He is Master of Computer Science, Oracle certified professional Java 8 developer and Scrum.org certified Scrum Master.

During his practical work on more than hundred projects, Anton established his own process for developing Enterprise Solutions. He published the approach in the video course Successful Software Development in Big Corporations. He is currently working on the book Unit Test Recipes.

Experiences

Head of Chapter - Software Development

July 2024 - Present
Siemens Financial Services

Chapter head for the chapter Software Development. Defining the software development process. Building up the development team in the Indian tech hub. Disciplinary leading of 40 software developers. Introducing the AI-centric paradigm of Spec-Driven Development.

Development Lead

November 2020 - June 2024
Siemens Financial Services

Development lead for Credit and Risk applications. Coordinating teams in areas IT-Landscape Modernization, DevOps and Software Development. Designing software solutions with focus on security, continuous delivery, orchestration of microservices and software quality. Supporting company-wide initiatives for AI Integration, Development Process Optimization, Recruiting and Training.

IT Architect and team lead

July 2018 - October 2020
LexCom Informationssystems

IT Architect and Disciplinary Team Lead for the leading Aftersales Enterprise. Main areas of focus are Team Development, Architecture and Agile Coaching on projects based on Java Enterprise, Spring Boot, REST and Microservices.

Technical lead

2015 - June 2018
Accenture GmbH

Consultant, IT Architect and Technical Team Lead for a major German bank client in Munich. Main working areas are Integration and Migration of trading platforms with focus on Software Quality, Performance Analysis and Team Coaching.

Senior Software Engineer

2011 - 2015
Accenture GmbH

Senior Software Developer for a major German bank client in Munich. Design and implementation of technical solutions in areas Data Load Balancing, Persistence Application Layer, System Interfaces and Trade Workflows.

Software Developer

2010 - 2011
Accenture GmbH

Software Developer for a major German bank client in Frankfurt am Main. Design and implementation of Calypso modules in areas trade validation, batch jobs, data mapping and messaging.

Project Examples

Driving offshore development transformation - Building up a software development team in India. Hiring personal. Organizing onboarding and training of new joiners.
Integration of AI in the Software Development of SFS IT - Definition of the Spec-Driven Development approach. Evaluation and introduction of AI coding tools, such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. Measuring and optimizing productivity gains.
Modularization of an Enterprise Credit and Risk application - Introduction of a Microservice architecture to migrate a monolythic on-premise Enterprise application to the Azure Cloud. Establishing an agile DevOps process for two Software Developer teams.
Implementation a Subscription solution for Aftersales products - Architecture, Design and Development of the company-wide system for handling customer subscriptions.
Calypso 14 migration - Leading the technical migration of a highly customized accounting application for IRD, CRD and Security products to version 14.

Skills & Proficiency

Dev. Team Management

AI and SDD

Software Engineering

Technical Specification

Dev. Processes and SDLC

Functional Specification

Project Management