Summary
Floyd Kretschmar is a Technical Lead based in Regensburg, Germany with nine years of software development experience and a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Tübingen. He has progressed from Werkstudent roles into full-time engineering positions and now leads technical initiatives at OTTO, bringing practical hands-on coding experience together with team leadership. His background includes fintech/insurtech and enterprise projects, and he has navigated both startup-like environments and larger organizations such as Bosch and the Max Planck Society. Floyd combines a solid academic foundation with international exposure from a semester at Soongsil University, which informs his collaborative, cross-cultural approach to problem solving. Known for steadily advancing into leadership while retaining a developer’s mindset, he focuses on delivering pragmatic, maintainable solutions and helping teams scale their engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at University of Tübingen
Auslandssemester Informatik, Auslandssemester Informatik at Soongsil University
Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Informatik at OTH Regensburg
Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung Informatik, Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung Informatik at EDV-Schulen Wiesau
German, English, Korean