Christian Lechner
Product Manager - SAP BTP Platform Automation (Terraform & BTP CLI)
Passau, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Lechner is a product-minded engineering leader with 8+ years of experience shaping cloud-native and serverless platform automation at SAP, currently driving Terraform and BTP CLI product work for SAP BTP. With a background as a development architect and long-standing roles in solution architecture and community leadership (DSAG speaker, SAP Mentor alumnus), he blends hands-on prototyping with strategic product decisions. He brings a rare combination of academic rigor (Dr. rer. nat. in physics) and practical cloud engineering, having led platform automation, consulting, and CTO responsibilities across startups and enterprises. An author and former Microsoft MVP, he’s passionate about infrastructure-as-code and developer experience, and is known for translating complex platform requirements into usable automation tools that accelerate cloud adoption.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Physik, Dr. rer. nat. Physik at University of Regensburg
English, French
Github Skills (151)
sap-cap10
azure-functions10
sap10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
cosmosdb10
serverless10
cloud-native10
cloud-foundry10
get-started10
architecture10
azure-cosmos-db10
openui510
sap-cloud-sdk10
azure-devops10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SAP/terraform-exporter-btp
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
The Terraform Exporter for SAP BTP is a tool that helps export resources from a SAP BTP account. It generates Terraform scripts for the import of resources and enables the import of the Terraform state.
Contributions:36 reviews, 184 PRs, 251 pushes in 4 months
sap-btpterraform
lechnerc77/lechnerc77_npxbusinesscard
Dec 2018 - May 2021
My NPX Business Card
Contributions:11 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
npxjavascriptbusiness-cardnodejsnpm
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