Frederik Thormaehlen
Early Retirement at SAP
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFrederik Thormaehlen is a seasoned enterprise software architect with three decades of experience across development, operations, support, and security, currently on early retirement after a long career at SAP. He led security compliance and architecture for SAP BTP’s Gardener Kubernetes service, driving initiatives like Post-Quantum Crypto readiness, NIST OSCAL adoption, and automation for certification preparation. Frederik blends deep hands-on engineering (ABAP, Java, cloud-native stacks) with governance experience across release trains, development tools, and software asset management. He’s known for translating regulatory and audit requirements into practical processes and technical controls for large-scale platforms. Having worked across industries and regions, he brings a rare combination of product-focused developer craftsmanship and enterprise compliance leadership. His academic background in psychology and computer science gives him a pragmatic, user-aware perspective on complex technical and organizational problems.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Psychology, Computer Science, Diploma, Psychology, Computer Science at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
German, English, Italian
Github Skills (64)
kubernetes10
vsphere10
fedora10
controller10
debian10
lifecycle10
kubernetes-cluster10
extensibility10
chroot10
gcp10
manjaro10
aws10
canopen10
golang10
nodes10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ThormaehlenFred/documentation
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Documentation and website
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
gardener/.github
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Parent repo for all gardener repos to store centrally managed files
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year
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