Markus Werle

General Tasks Lead comprehensive technology development, research, and product innovation with full economic oversight. Direct hardware (mechatronics, sensors, E/E systems), software (on-device, apps, backend, cloud), and scalable architectures. Shape IP strategy, make-or-buy decisions, and technology roadmaps. IT & Platform Leadership Drive IT infrastructure evolution. Ensure software quality, IT security, data protection, and compliance (Cyber Resilience Act, ISO 27005). Operations & Team Building Manage external providers, product safety/CE approvals, budgets, and resources. Build an engineering team, implement agile processes, CI/CD, and modern dev tools. Represent technology vision to customers, investors, and stakeholders.

■ R&D Maturity - Establish guidelines and engineering standards - Enhance overall developer experience together with IT
■ Technical Strategy - Align strategic technical developments and decisions with or between developer teams - Ensure Utimaco is moving towards common platforms that enable the business
■ Technology and Tool Standards - Implement tech governance to align teams in technology selection/deployment and enable conscious technology decisions - Enhance and harmonize the development toolchain for seamless collaboration between sites
■ Tech Debt Management - Provide transparency about and coordinate continuous tech debt removal - Drive technical improvements that go across teams

■ Leading a team of 6-8 internal and external IT professionals, recruiting, contract management
■ Coordination with R&D Management and Product Management
■ Oversight over the Release Process of Utimaco’s software portfolio
■ Coordination with and support of certification activities
■ Strategic management of continuous improvement activities for the CI/CD infrastructure
■ Planning and execution of continuous improvement initiatives regarding the IT infrastructure
■ Introduction of modern CI/CD concepts, e.g. containerized development environments and CI infrastructure, Kubernetes

Conducting a seminar and taking exams for the Aerospace Engineering Department in the subject area Automotive Engineering and Drive Technology.

Responsibilities:
■ Developing and communicating the company’s technical vision
■ Management of all aspects of technological development, research and product development, as well as responsibility for these at a commercial level
■ Budget planning and monitoring for the technical area
■ Monitoring technological, social and scientific trends that could influence the company’s business objectives, identifying opportunities and risks and deriving appropriate measures for the company
■ Shaping the strategic direction and development of the company in the management team
■ Personnel development and setting up development teams in the technical area ■ Strategic planning and further development of the technical infrastructure, the IT infrastructure, and equipment for the company
■ Communication with authorities and inspection bodies to establish and ensure the approval process
■ External presentation of the company, communication of technical development to customers, shareholders, investors and the public
■ Organization and implementation of test drives Supervision of the following teams:
■ Vehicle design
■ Mechanical construction
■ Electronics and electrics
■ Software development
■ Certification

Dealing with all aspects of autonomous and automated vehicles in an exciting environment

■ Consulting with regard to connected mobility topics.
■ Project lead for research and customer projects about connected mobility
■ Project management. Coordinated the setup of demonstrator vehicles and server systems showing the potential of car2car and car2cloud communication. ■ Product management. Designed the functional basis for an in-vehicle middleware for connected mobility services.
■ HMI design.
■ Server Systems. Coordinated the creation and setup of server systems for IoT services (i.e. electric vehicle range prediction, vehicle control center, measurement data acquisition services)

■ Senior Software Architect for high quality, mandatory core .NET library components, responsible for standardisation and further modularisation of the existing code base. Conduction of peer reviews and quality enhancement workshops. ■ Research in the field of numerical methods and optimization

Project leader of a project aiming at the reorganization of the software development infrastructure and at the migration to .NET (C#, C++/CLI)
■ Reorganisation of the software development process within the team, Establishment of coding standards and a modular software architecture.
■ Development and implementation of a company-wide standardized highly available server concept for the source code management based on a virtual Windows server, Subversion and Apache, including MediaWiki software as knowledge database
■ Standardisation of testing (NUnit)
■ Concepts for the migration process from C++ and Matlab to C#/.NET, development of code generators for library wrapper code which allows the re-utilization of existing libraries written in Matlab and C++.

Software designer and C++ developer in the so-called “Methodenteam” (Think Tank Department)
■ Development of new mathematical methods for engine control unit (ECU) calibration
■ Requirements management and communication with internal and external customers
■ Development of concepts for optimization methods based on large data sets, evaluation of vehicle and test bench measurement data and computation of ECU calibration data
■ Design, implementation and maintenance of several software tools with graphical user interface (MFC / Visual Studio .NET 2003 - 2010) which support and automate the ECU calibration process, e.g. a high resolution pattern recognition engine measurement analysis program for cold start analysis and a universal tool for 3D measurement and calibration data visualization (based on OpenGL) and calculation utilities for the prediction of ECU behaviour (including scripting automation)
■ Management of pilot projects and one of three lead appraisal projects for software quality assurance within the certification process for CMMI level 2 (now certified by SEI) and higher
■ Development and optimization of standardized workflows for automotive measurement technologies, testing and selection of measurement equipment
■ Scientific management and training of employees for the application of state-of-the-art measurement technology and in-house software tools. Production of training materials

Computational Fluid Dynamics
■ Development of plugins and extensions for a commercial fluid simulation software (STAR-CD) with the capability of parallel execution based on MPI f77/C++ mixed code.
■ Generation of a moving grid model for computational fluid dynamics of internal combustion engines
■ Creation of a code generator for the production of reliable interface code for a hydrodynamic solver within the multi-body simulation software MSC ADAMS/Engine IT-administration Linux
■ Automation of operating system setup and software installation (SuSE/RedHat) ■ Development and maintenance of a reliable data backup solution
■ Service for and maintenance of system-wide installation of commercial CAE software, license management, automation of simulation and analysis procedures

Doctoral Studies in numerical methods for the simulation of short time physics in solids and fluids with a special focus on fluid-structure-interaction. Development of a time implicit finite element solver generator for the FEM FCT method in modern C++.