Tobias Reithmeier
Product Owner (Document Delivery) · Software Architect
From developer to product owner with leadership responsibility: 15+ years of software engineering, architecture, and product ownership. Combines technical depth (architecture of large Angular applications, arc42) with team leadership. On the side: speaking in consumer education and ten iOS apps built as a solo developer.
Work Experience
Product Owner - Document Delivery
ING Germany · Nuremberg
Product ownership of the bank's document delivery system, serving documents to millions of customers. Manages backlog, roadmap, and stakeholders, and provides technical leadership for the development team.
Technical Product Owner & IT Project Lead
TenneT Germany
Technical product owner of the grid development plan (PowerNEP) and lead of the "Smart Performance Cluster", a compute cluster for load-flow simulations of the energy transition. Previously grew from web developer to lead developer and internal product owner on the levies portal, additionally serving as IT apprenticeship coordinator.
Instructor, Consumer Education · freelance
Familienbildungsstätte Bayreuth
Teaches digital literacy in adult education: courses and talks on internet basics, smart home, artificial intelligence, and children online.
IT Project Manager
AVS GmbH
Led rollouts of city-card and multi-partner voucher systems following PRINCE2 (city marketing Bayreuth, Stuttgart, Vienna; Hagebau), including test coordination and ITIL-based quality management.
Senior Software Engineer
VEMA eG
Advanced the VEMAextranet B2B broker platform (30,000+ users) in Scrum with PHP, MySQL, Angular, and TypeScript, including data modeling and quality assurance.
Lead Software Engineer
XAVO GmbH
Lead developer for laboratory information and manufacturing execution systems (LIMS/MES) for international industrial clients (BAT, JM): design, implementation, and rollout in C#, MSSQL, and Oracle.
Software Engineer & Working Student
TMT GmbH
Started out in IT: independently replaced the Bayreuth Festival's ticketing system, built digital signage solutions and first iOS and Android apps (PHP, Drupal, TYPO3, Objective-C).
Selected Projects
- PowerNEP - TenneT · Scalable, cloud-native workflow engine for grid planning Azure · Python · HPC
- Smart Performance Cluster - TenneT · Compute cluster for load-flow simulations (energy transition) Azure · HPC · Scrum
- Levies portal - TenneT · Market communication for EEG/KWKG/StromPBG levies, hexagonal architecture Angular · Docker · OpenAPI
- Cashless payment processing - Wiener Prater · PoS integration for 50+ operators SQL · Data Warehouse
- City & employer vouchers - Multi-partner loyalty system (Stuttgart, Coburg, and others) SQL · Data Warehouse
- Voucher systems - Hagebau, Apollo Optik, KPM · Gift cards integrated into retail POS systems SQL · Reporting
- VEMAextranet - B2B platform for insurance brokers, 30,000+ users PHP · SQL · Scrum
- Festival ticketing - Bayreuth Festival · Replaced the ticketing IT, implemented independently PHP · C# · SQL
- Digital signage - Nordbayerischer Kurier, TenneT · Real-time info system for city-center marketing PHP · SQL · SpinetiX
- Mobile apps - Festival, Therme Obernsees, Radio Mainwelle · CMS & media integration Objective-C · PHP
- Xavo Lab Logistics - Lab logistics & sample management, robotics interfaces C# · SQL · MSMQ
Education & Certifications
M.Sc. Applied Computer Science
University of Bayreuth · 2008-2009 · Focus on bioinformatics · Best Paper Award (ICIW 2010)B.Sc. Applied Computer Science
University of Bayreuth · 2003-2007 · Focus on bioinformatics- Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) · Scrum.org
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) · Scrum.org
- PRINCE2 Foundation · AXELOS
- ITIL Foundation · AXELOS
- LEAN Yellow Belt · TenneT
- DevOps Fundamentals · Maxpert
Technologies & Methods
Leadership & Collaboration
- Team leadership
- Mentoring & coaching
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder communication
- Conflict resolution
- Apprentice training
Core Competencies
- Architecture
- arc42
- UI/UX design
- PRINCE2 / Scrum
- DevOps
Languages & Frameworks
- Angular
- TypeScript
- Nx
- Bootstrap
- Clarity Design
Testing (TDD)
- Cypress
- Jest
- Jasmine
- Karma
Also
- iOS (Swift)
- Objective-C
- Arduino
DevOps & Infrastructure
- Docker
- Netlify
- Cloudflare
- VMware
Tools & Platforms
- Git
- Jira
- Confluence
- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- FreeBSD
Design
- Figma
- Balsamiq
- Photoshop
Languages
- German (native)
- English (business fluent)
- French (basic)
- Italian (basic)
iOS Apps on the App Store (Selection)
- Sudoku Pro: Puzzles & Trainer - Sudoku to play and learn, no subscription (Games)
- CLAUDIO - Privacy-focused audio player (Book)
- Quadrivium - Four logic puzzles, one grid (Games)
- Tsugi - Zen dominosa puzzle (Games)
- NonoQuest - Nonogram puzzles with a retro look (Games)
- 365 Lens - Daily photo prompt (Photo & Video)
- Plot Spark - Idea generator for writers (Productivity)
- Find Picture Pairs - Picture matching game, reimagined (Games)
- PauseFirst - App blocker with a short task (Health & Fitness)