Stefan Jacobs

I am a fast learner and like challenges.
I translate between business and IT.
I like to code once in a while.
I love architectures following the KISS principle.

since May 2023

DB Fernverkehr AG

Lead Innovation Mangement bahn.de/DB Navigator

Responsible for innovation process and results.

Keeping the sales platform up to date and observe market trends.

Disrupt existing processes and innovate them.

2021-2023

DB Systel Frankfurt

Management Consultant: Technical Expert

Controlling cloud cost for development of sales platform program.

Automation of issue detection in an environment of >200 microservices.

Establishing pattern recognition in classification of test automation issues.

2019-2021

DB Systel Frankfurt

Head of Technical Expert Team of new Sales Platform

Responsible for transition of sales platform into DBS operations team.

Responsible for phasing out the expert team and reducing the head count.

Controlling cloud cost for development of sales platform program.

Interface between functional and technical operations teams.

2018 - 2019

DB Systel Frankfurt

Head of Operations for the new Sales Platform

Responsible for operating custom developed cloud native software.

Coaching and challenging teams to develop after 12 Factor App.

Enforcing standards to do monitoring and logging in a microservice architecture.

2016 - 2018

DB Systel Frankfurt

Technical Project Manager

Responsible for central routing services in a distributed service architecture.

Established central ELK Stack in microservice landscape.

Integration of KeyCloak as central authentication service in distributed service architecture.

2005 - 2016

Accenture Technology Solutions

Manager in Travel & Transportation

Technical project lead for a central disposition system.

Development lead for a next generation eTicketing platform.

Configuration & Environment manager for a sales system.

1998 - 2005

RWTH Aachen University

Computer sciences and machine design

Diplom Informatiker - M.Sc. equivalent

IJCAI 2005 Paper: Unreal GoLog Bots

AAAI 2004 Paper: Controlling Unreal Tournament 2004 Bots

Thesis:
Applying ReadyLog to Agent Programming in Interactive Computer Games

1997

Friedrich Spee Gymnasium Geldern

Abitur