Gregor Schneider

Quality Architect & Technology Consultant @EPAM Systems

Berlin, DE

EPAM Systems is a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services. I am part of the global cloud, agility & testing practice, where I work at the intersection of quality assurance, DevOps/SRE/platform engineering, cloud, agility and artificial intelligence across numerous industries.As an architect I regularly work with internal and external teams, departments or whole organizations to improve delivery speed, quality and agililty. To achieve this, I start by discovering processes, tools and ways or working, then provide insights to potential improvements and finally lead transformation activities to enhance quality, velocity and/or reduce cost - whichever are deemed most critical. As part of these activities I advise C-level executives on innovation & technology strategy, coach teams and mentor individuals in the areas of automation testing, continuous integration & delivery, clean code, trunk based development, applications of AI in SDLC and agile methods.I mentored more than 150 mentees in clean code and clean design within a year with very high or exceptional mentee satisfaction. One of my transformations reduced manual testing costs by 40% for a FinTech customer, while speeding up release time from two hours to 30 minutes and increasing deployment frequency threefold - all thanks to the introduction of CI/CD practices and automation. I further created numerous customized solutions for presales and performed organization wide technology discoveries, which each lead to large multi-million dollar engagements.