2020 - present	Chair Representative of Prof. Hasso Plattner Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts Hasso‐Plattner‐Institute, University of Potsdam
2019 - present	VP Strategic Projects (Development Senior Manager) SAP Technology and Innovation
2015 - 2018	Head of Chairman Projects (Development Manager) SAP Innovation Center Network
2014 - 2015	Software Developer and Researcher SAP Innovation Center Potsdam Future Corporate Management Strategic Projects Programming Models & Development Experience
2008 - 2013	Doctoral Studies (Dr.-Ing.) in Computer Science supervised by Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld, Software Architecture Group Thesis: Test-driven Fault Navigation for Debugging Reproducible Failures Research School on Service-oriented Systems Engineering Hasso‐Plattner‐Institute, University of Potsdam
2007 - 2008	Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Software Engineering Thesis: Explicit Use-case Representation in Object-oriented Programming Languages Hasso‐Plattner‐Institute, University of Potsdam
2003 - 2007	Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Software Engineering Hasso‐Plattner‐Institute, University of Potsdam
1996 - 2003	Secondary School "Hermann-von-Helmholtz Gymnasium", Potsdam
1990 - 1996	Elementary School "Waldschule", Potsdam

Academic Service

• Mentor for SAP.iO Foundry, powered by Techstars Accelerator
• Student events chair at Modularity AOSD '12
• Program committee member for SKILLS '22, PX/22, SOFTENG '22 (Industry/research advisory committee and technical committee), SKILLS '21, PX/21, SOFTENG '21 (Industry/research advisory committee and technical committee), PX/20, SOFTENG '20 (Industry/research advisory committee and technical committee), PX/19, SOFTENG '19 (Industry/research advisory committee and technical committee), PX/18, SOFTENG '18 (Industry/research advisory committee and technical committee), OtC '17, PX/17.2, PX/17, SOFTENG '17 (Industry/research advisory committee and technical committee), PX/16, CROW '16, SOFTENG '16 (Research liaison and technical committee), VISSOFT '15 (NIER and Tool-Demo Tracks), SOFTENG '15 (Research liaison and technical committee), VISSOFT '14 (NIER and Tool-Demo Tracks), and DYLA '10
• External reviewer
  • Journals (CSRD '13, JSS '13, JOT '12, SCICO '12, TAOSD '09)
  • Conferences (OPENSYM '14, ENASE '14, CSMR-WCRE ERA '14, ECOOP ('13, '12, '11, '10), AOSD ('13, '11), SPLASH/OOPSLA ('13, '11, '10), SAC-OOPS ('15, '13, '12, '11), DLS ('15, '14, '13), Onward! '13, Coordinations ('12, '11), C5 ('12, '11), SAC-PSC '09)
  • Workshops (XM '14, SEI '14, MASPEGHI '13, GI ('13, '12, '10), Smalltalk Directions '12, Benevol '10, AoAsia '10, IWST '09)
• Co-supervised PhD theses
  • Jan Kossmann. Unsupervised Database Optimization: Efficient Index Selection and Data Dependency-driven Query Optimization. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2023.
  • Günter Hesse. A Benchmark for Enterprise Stream Processing Architectures. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
  • Markus Dreseler. Automatic Tiering for In-Memory Databases. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
• Co-supervised master theses
  • Daniel Lindner. Workload-driven Query Optimization Using Data Dependencies. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
  • Kenneth Schröder. Discussion of Reinforcement Learning Properties with Applications to Combinatorial Problems. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
  • Pascal Schulze. Serverless Maintenance of Database Statistics and Cached Query Results. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
  • Timon Millich. Cost-aware Pruning with Filters in Serverless Data Management. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
  • Ben Hurdeley. Workload-driven Data Placement for Tierless In-Memory Database Systems. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
  • Petr Tsayun. Workload-driven Fine-grained Index and Filter Selection for In-Memory Database Scan Acceleration. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2022.
  • David Justen. Efficiency and Robustness in Serverless Join Processing. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Tobias Nack. Incorporating Background Knowledge from Car Manufacturing into Constraint-based Causal Structure Learning. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Lukas Böhme. Efficient Data Transfer for Data Mediator Systems. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Julian Menzler. Query Compilation for Distributed Execution with Cloud Functions. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Milan Proell. Load Balancing Causal Structure Learning Algorithms in Heterogeneous Computing Systems. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Fabian Engel. Straggler identification and mitigation in massively distributed query execution on cloud functions. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Constantin Lange. Parallel Execution Strategies for Constraint-Based Causal Structure Learning with an Entropy-Based Conditional Independence Test. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Marcel Weisgut. Partial Indexes in Horizontally Partitioned In-Memory Databases. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2021.
  • Philipp Bode. Constraint-based Causal Structure Learning of Gene Regulatory Networks. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2020.
  • Matthias Flüggen. Anti-Caching for Hyrise. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2020.
  • Alexander Kastius. Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Priocing under Competition. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2020.
  • Alexander Loeser. Automatic Clustering in Hyrise. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2020.
  • Jan Mensch. Elastic Query Execution via Short-lived and Stateless Cloud Functions. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2020.
  • Frederike Ramin. Perceived Contributions in Software Engineering Teams. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2020.
  • Daniel Thevessen. An Entropy-Based Conditional Independence Test for Constraint-Based Causal Structure Learning from Heterogeneous Data. Hasso-Plattner-Institute. 2020.
  • Benjamin Siegmund. Studying the Advancement in Debugging Practice of Professional Software Developers. Hasso-Plattner-Institut. 2014.
  • Lukas Niemeier. Tracking and Visualization of Object State Changes for Fault Localization. Hasso-Plattner-Institut. 2014.
  • Leonhard Schweizer. PathObjects – Revealing Object Interactions to Assist Developers in Program Comprehension. Hasso-Plattner-Institut. 2014.
  • Oliver Richter. Language Independent Software Development Tools - Introducing Smoopie: Path Tools in Eclipse. Hasso-Plattner-Institut. 2014.
  • Tim Felgentreff. Comparison, Replay, and Refinement of Communication Traces for Debugging Distributed Failures. Hasso-Plattner-Institut. 2012.
  • David Tibbe. Integration von Kontextdaten verschiedener Communitys am Beispiel von IYOUIT und Facebook. Hasso-Plattner-Institut. 2009.

Teaching

• Massive Open Online Courses
  • Enterprise Goes Cloud at OpenSAP
• Lectures
  • Trends and Concepts in the Software Industry I (together with Prof. Hasso Plattner, focus on cloud architectures, enterprise cloud platforms and busines applications, master course, summer term 2020-2022)
  • Software Engineering II (Bachelor course, winter term 2020/2021)
  • Scalable Software Engineering (Bachelor course, winter term 2021/2022-2022/2023)
  • Grundlagen der Datenverarbeitung in Unternehmensanwendungen (Bachelor course, summer term 2020)
  • Grundlagen von Unternehmensanwendungen (Bachelor course, summer term 2021)
  • Causal Inference - Theory and Applications in Enterprise Computing (together with Rainer Schlosser, master course, summer term 2020)
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making in Enterprise Applications (together with Rainer Schlosser, master course, summer term 2020)
• Seminars
  • Trends and Concepts in the Software Industry II (together with Prof. Hasso Plattner, focus on development experience, adoption in the cloud, and business process analysis, master course, winter term 2020/2021-2022/2023)
  • Develop Your Own Database (Seminar, Master course, summer term 2021-2022)
  • Research and implementation of database topics (Seminar, Master course, winter term 2020/2021-2022/2023)
• Bachelor Student Projects
  • Flexible Business Software for Start-ups with SAP New Ventures and Technologies (2022-2023)
  • Market Simulation Framework with Feather @ SAP.iO (2021-2022)
  • Reinvent the Development Experience for the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Graph (2020-2021)
  • Autopilot On: A Cockpit for Self-Driving Databases (2019-2020)
• Master Student Projects
  • Extend Your Own Database: Larger-than-Memory Data Management for an In-Memory Database System (Winter term 2022/2023)
  • Resource Allocation for Scale-out Database Systems and Cloud (Summer term 2022)
  • GPU-Accelerated Causal Structure Learning (Winter term 2021/2022)
  • Building an Elastic Query Engine on Serverless Cloud Infrastructure (Summer term 2021)
  • Causal Inference Benchmark (Winter term 2020/2021)
  • Performance Engineering for Cloud-based Database Systems (Summer term 2020)
• Lectures (with Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld)
  • Software-Architecture (Bachelor course, winter term 2008/2009 - 2013/2014)
  • Software Engineering I (Bachelor course, summer term 2009 - 2016)
  • Meta-Programming and Reflection (Master course, winter term 2011/2012)
  • IT-Enterprise Architectures (Master course, summer term 2010, winter term 2012/2013)
• Seminars (with Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld)
  • Programming Language Concepts, Tools, and Environments (Master course, summer term 2012)
  • Agile Development (Master course, summer term 2010)
• Co-supervised student projects (with Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld)
  • Improved Navigation in Back-in-time Debuggers (Master project, winter term 2013/2014)
  • The Reflective Programmer (Master project, summer term 2011)
  • Programming Models for Data-intensive Applications (Bachelor project, 2011-2012)
  • Scripting Objects for the Web (Bachelor project, 2010-2011)
  • Digital Pub Life (Bachelor project, 2009-2010)
• Other
  • Etoys workshop (Lecturer, course for pupils, summer term 2009, winter term 2009/2010)

Awards

2021	ACM Senior Membership Award for demonstrating performance through technical leadership and professional contributions.
2014	Winner of the Best App in SAP Tool-A-Thon 2014. Hangman-Notifications. Marius Obert, Michael Perscheid, Sebastian Schneider, Sebastian Woinar.
2009	Second Place for ESUG Innovation Technology Awards - PhidgetLab Best Master’s Degree in Software Engineering at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute
2007	Third-best Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute
2003	Third place for Brandenburg’s competition in computer science

Patents

• Marco Kroll, Lutz Gericke, Michael Perscheid, Alexander Boehm. Extension Application Mechanisms Through Intra-Process Operation Systems. Published on 29. July 2021. Publication number: US2021232416A1

Advising and Coaching

• Voluntary Coach and Jury for StartSocial e.V. and their projects: africademics.com (Won the German Engagement Award - Create Chances 2022) and respectScience e.V.
• Senior Fellow of 42 Berlin
• Mentor for several SAP colleagues
• Advisor for Maya Data Privacy Start-up

Various

• Languages
  • German (Mother tongue)
  • English (Fluent)
  • French (Basics)
• Memberships
  • ACM (Senior Member)
  • Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI + Fachgruppe Datenbanken)
  • Squeak Deutschland e.V. (Managing committee since 12/2013)
  • Flüchtlingshilfe Babelsberg e.V.
• Other interests
  • Basketball ("Hochschulsport Potsdam", Course instructor from 02/2014 to 02/2020)
  • Mountainbike
  • Model railway