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name: Matthias Cullmann
title: Software Engineer
email: matthias.cullmann@gmail.com
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# About Section
# about_title: About Me
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about_content: | 
  Hi, my name's Matthias. Over the past 20 years, I have been developer, architect, release engineer, scrum master, project lead, tech lead and director. 
  
  No matter the role, I love software engineering, smiling customers and winning as a team.
  
  My values are <mark>Openness</mark>, <mark>Knowledge Sharing</mark>, <mark>Teamwork</mark> and <mark>Sustainability</mark>.

  I also value [source code](https://github.com/culmat/cv) over slides. I like to release early and often.
  
  I am fluent in German, English and French.
  
  My current centre of interest is machine learning.
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  <span class="no-screen">You are reading the print version of my CV. You might prefer the web version with additional information and links.</span>

content:
  - title: Experience
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      - layout: left
        title: Baloise Insurance, Basel
        link: https://baloise.com
        sub_title: Owner BizDevOps Guild
        caption: June 2019 - Present
        description: | 
            Definition and implementation of strategic journey to agile working across oneIT ( ~1000 employees) along the dimensions of automation, education and teamwork.
            Coaching of the five Governance Guilds with over 60 members from across the group.
            Training for >400 employees provided by the guild.
            Project lead for virtual machine automation: lead time reduced from weeks to hours.
            
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        sub_title: Owner Center Of Excellence Software Engineering
        caption: February 2015 - June 2019
        description: | 
            Defined the vision for the evolution of the software engineering department.
            Launched Open Source, DevOps and continuous deployment initiatives.
            Launched insurance knowledge improvement program for developers.
            Management of tools and processes of the competence center with 85 engineers.
            Reinforcement of agile culture: Open Friday, open source.

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        sub_title: Technical Lead Java
        caption: July 2010 - February 2015
        description: | 
            Definition and implementation of the technology stack.
            Motivation and knowledge management of the java community of 40 engineers.
            Organisation of internal and external events: java lightning, Java User Group CH, code camp, trainings.

            Job interviews with all engineers.
            IT project lead
             - Optimisation of the build and deploy infrastructure
             - Consolidation of the JEE server landscape
            
            Developer on the SOA middleware and the partner system.
            Introduced software engineering KPI and test driven development.

            Launched Baloise Open Source.
            Reduced JEE server versions by 50% to 2 per product and replaced CVS with git.
            
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        title: SOGETI HIGH TECH, Toulouse
        link: https://www.sogeti.com/
        sub_title: Project lead, technical expert for Airbus UK
        caption: August 2008 - July 2010
        description: |
          Development of a client-server 3D tank model viewer with integrated fuel analysis from scratch.
          Research on 3D ergonomics and web architecture for scientific computing.
          Coordination of the Java centre of excellence.
          
          *Environment: Java 3D, Eclipse RCP, JEE, WebSphere, Hibernate, SSO, Java web start, Maven2*

      - layout: left
        sub_title: Rightshore™ manager, software development out of Bangalore/India
        caption: October 2007 -August 2008
        description: |
          Leading a team of 45 engineers in embedded and application software projects. Technical coordination, tools, process, recruitment, delivery, motivation, sales support.
          
          Team grew from 20 to 45. Harmonization of tools and processes. Full transparency for the customer. CMMI level 5 and DO-178B audits. Knowledge transfer to the Indian organisation.
            
      - layout: left
        sub_title: Developer / Project lead for Airbus UK
        caption: October 2005 - October 2007
        description: |
          Development of a data base for structure test data
           - J2EE, ANT, JavaScript development
           - Way of working, R&D, Eclipse, JUnit, Cruise Control, WebTest, JMeter 
          In one cycle (150 man days)
           - reduced spent budget from 250% to 99%
           - number of bugs in customer acceptance divided by four
           - performance improved by x10 to x100
           - application in production with > 100 users
           
          Management of a project in trouble in a transnational environment (UK, Germany, France). 800 classes, 70k lines of code
          
          *Environment: J2EE, Oracle, Borland Enterprise Server, CMP, TOMCAT, JSP, SiteMinder, LDAP, Velocity, AJAX (JavaScript), CVS*

      - layout: left
        title: FREELANCE, Montpellier
        link: https://tinyurl.com/swapeo2004
        sub_title: Developer for SWAPEO, Montpellier
        caption: June / July 2004
        description: | 
          Technical design and development of the home exchange site swapeo.com.
           - Audit
           - Data base modelling
           - Design and development
          
          Website running and profitable since its creation without major maintenance. 5K – 10k users. 
          
          *Environment: PHP, MySQL.*

  - title: Community
    layout: text
    content: | 
      .
        - [Java Honor Roll mention](https://web.archive.org/web/20180330201610/http:/www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/7honorroll-433557.html) for reporting a bug in [java.io.File](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/File.html)
        - Co-founder of [BaselHack](https://baselhack.ch/)
        - Co-founder of Java User Group Basel and former member of the board of [Java User Group Switzerland](https://www.jug.ch/board.php)
        - Co-founder and former member of the board of [BaselOne](https://www.baselone.ch/)
        - Co-Chair and program team member of the [XP conference 2025](https://www.agilealliance.org/xp/) in Windisch CH 
        - Former member of the board of the [french school of Basel](https://www.efdb.ch) 

  - title: Education
    layout: text
    content: | 
      Bachelor of computer science, [Fernuniversität Hagen](https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/). Software engineering, internet security, distributed systems.
      
      Development of a Wiki module in Java. Seminar "Intelligent e-learning platforms" of the artificial intelligence lab.

  - title: Contact
    layout: text
    content: |
      [Beim Wasserturm 10, 4059 Basel](https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&route=%3B47.5273%2C7.5929)
      
      [matthias.cullmann@gmail.com](mailto:matthias.cullmann@gmail.com)
      
      [+41 79 699 1500](tel:+41 79 699 1500)
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