Konrad F.

Spearheaded strategic transformation and operational excellence and large-scale AI/ML and GenAI initiatives across multiple clients including Fortune 500 companies in finance, insurance, and technology sectors. For example, with a leading tier-1 bank, designed and implemented assurance strategies to enable bank customers to move highly sensitive workloads to public clouds. Another example is the design and implementation of a cloud governance framework for a tier-1 European telecommunications provider with 60m+ users.

• • Owns the tech strategy and leads multiple delivery efficiency initiatives Orchestrates the full AI/ML delivery lifecycle, from experimental design and model development using

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TensorFlow/PyTorch to MLOps implementation for continuous integration and deployment of AI pipelines in a production environment.

• • Development of AI Applications and Agents including data strategy, RAG, and training concepts.

• • Established strong cross-team collaboration through education, coaching, and mentoring of engineering, product, and legal teams.

• • Advisory for region leads on hiring decisions, talent development, and cross-team levelling.

Established and led a highly specialised consulting practice with up to 40+ direct and 120+ matrixed reports to deliver cloud transformation programs to enterprise customers:

• • Enterprise Risk Transformation: Owned the design and execution of a holistic IT Governance Framework for a leading Telco, mapping legal and technical controls for 700+ mission-critical applications (60m+ user base). Bridged the gap between Privacy, Legal, and IT Operations.

• • Led cross-functional teams to implement the cloud governance framework based on Platform Engineering best practices incl. Infrastructure as Code and Golden Path templates and development of policies and procedures, process integration with existing ITIL and SAFe based delivery models for a leading IT outsourcing provider.

• • Directed product ownership and technical architecture for a SaaS application stack, incorporating advanced machine learning capabilities for content generation and OKR-based management, built on Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Go, Java, and Python.

• • Implemented distributed computing patterns for high-scale data processing and AI model serving, ensuring robust performance and persistence of state for mission-critical applications.

• • Developed and implemented the IT operations models based on data criticality, legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements for 700+ applications transforming IT delivery for 4k+ staff.

• • Public Speaker and Thought Leadership: 20+ closed door and public speaking engagements and publications on cloud adoption and IT risk management.

• • Led the disaster recovery improvement program across the process chain of 5 Business Unitsfor core business processes of a Telco for 50+ Core Applications, 40m+ customers.

• • P&L Ownership: Full responsibility for the P&L of the consulting practice.

• • Led highly specialised projects for mission-critical IT assets.

• • Public Speaker and Thought Leadership: 20+ closed door and public speaking engagements and publications on cloud adoption and IT risk management.

• • Led the disaster recovery improvement program across the process chain of 5 Business Unitsfor core business processes of a Telco for 50+ Core Applications, 40m+ customers.