Manuel Blechschmidt
Verified Expert in Engineering
Salesforce Developer
Berlin, Germany
Toptal member since November 2, 2020
Manuel is a certified Demandware developer and IT systems Engineer. His expertise lies in ERP and eCommerce systems, including shop design, marketing, analytics, material management, and production planning. Manual has created multi-tenant sites for fashion retailers in France, Belgium, and the USA. He has presented at the SAP TechEds in Las Vegas and Amsterdam and has contributed to the training of staff at previous roles.
Portfolio
Experience
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) - 13 years
- Software Architecture - 10 years
- Leadership - 10 years
- Java EE - 10 years
- Data Science - 10 years
- Project Management - 7 years
- SAP Fiori - 6 years
- Python - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Java EE, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC), SAP Fiori, Linux
The most amazing...
...product I created was a COVID-19 visualization featured on the biggest news site in Germany: "Frühwarnsysteme zum Coronavirus: Wie Karten Leben retten sollen."
Work Experience
CEO
Incentergy GmbH
- Developed a market entry strategy together with the sales department.
- Build a product according to the German law Patientendatenschutzgesetz.
- Connected different tools in a continuous improvement and delivery pipeline.
CEO
Incentergy, GmbH.
- Oversaw the entire company's development, including the company vision, accounting, human resources, and research and development.
- Oversaw the customer acquisition of the IT consulting business.
- Presented at SAP TechEd 2017 in Las Vegas on the topic: “Optimizing an SAP Fiori Application Based on a Real World Example.”.
CTO
Mobizcorp
- Spearheaded the evaluation, selection, development, and operation of software solutions primarily in the eCommerce area.
- Used an OKR-based performance management system to align the workforce with the company goals.
- Improved the processes of human capital management (HCM).
- Managed, trained, and educated approximately 30 employees.
- Increased the utilization and the contribution margin with the use of statistical procedures in the project planning area.
CTO
Apaxo, GmbH.
- Built a product based on my master thesis: "An architecture for evaluating recommender systems in real-world scenarios."
- Led a team of five people in the machine learning and data science branch.
- Acted as a member of the SAP Start Up Focus program, including usage of SAP HANA.
- Presented at the SAP TechEd in Amsterdam: "The future of personalized marketing budget allocation with HANA and SCIP."
- Operated a highly available infrastructure on AWS that scaled to multiple thousand transactions per seconds.
Experience
Proof-of-concept for a Decentralized Health Record File
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQreLOkn6lMSalesforce Commerce, Marketing, and Service Cloud (Canyon Bicycles)
https://www.canyon.comAgri Credit Scoring Fiori App
Multi-tenant SaaS ERP for Farmers
https://www.nextfarming.deImplementation of Demandware for International Fashion Brands
I was involved in the integration of SAP ERP, EPICOR, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Order Motion, Vcommerce, Right Now, IBM AS400, Odoo, OpenERP, PayPal, Computop, Heidelpay, and ExactTarget.
Multi-tenant Marketing Suite for Online Fashion Retailers
Education
Master's Degree in IT Systems Engineering
Hasso-Plattner-Institut - Potsdam, Germany
Bachelor's Degree in IT Systems Engineering
Hasso-Plattner-Institut - Potsdam, Germany
Certifications
Certified Demandware Developer
Demandware, Inc.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OpenLayers, Java Message Service (JMS)
Tools
SAP Fiori, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC), Salesforce Marketing Cloud, WildFly, SAP UI5, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Odoo, GPG, Manhattan OMS
Languages
Java, JavaScript, UML, Python
Platforms
Linux, Java EE, Demandware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce, Shopify, Computop, SAP HANA, Magento
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Storage
PostGIS, PostgreSQL, GeoServer, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, MySQL
Frameworks
GWT, Spring Boot, Hadoop, Spark
Paradigms
Design Thinking
Other
Data Science, Web Programming, Leadership, Software Architecture, Machine Learning, OData, PayPal, Scrum Master, Architecture, Point of Sale, Personalization, Modeling, Mathematics, SAP ERP, Apache FOP, Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems, WebIDE, SAP, Epicor, Unzer, Order Motion, Vcommerce, Jmap, Windows Kernel Debugging (WKD), Apache James Server, HL7, GlassFish, SOAP
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