Hilmar Schepp
Senior PR Manager at SAP
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHilmar Schepp is a seasoned communications leader with over two decades at SAP, where he shaped global media strategy for innovation, technology and mobile initiatives and later led strategic innovation and global corporate affairs. Now based in the Cologne–Bonn region, he combines deep corporate PR experience with an uncommon hands-on interest in software backend issues, evidenced by contributions to the high-profile corona-warn-app server addressing MIME types, graceful shutdowns and dependency hardening. He transitioned to a senior PR role at GAMBIT Consulting while holding an early retirement designee status at SAP, signaling a deliberate pivot to advisory and consultancy work. Known for translating complex technical topics into clear media narratives, he bridges technology, research and business audiences effectively. His academic background in history and political science underpins a strategic perspective on technology policy and public discourse. Colleagues describe him as a steady strategic thinker who still dives into technical details when it matters.
10 years of coding experience
Magister Artium, History, Political Science, Magister Artium, History, Political Science at University Duesseldorf
English, German
Github Skills (11)
aws-s310
javas10
amazon-s310
back-end-development10
java10
spring-boot10
s3-bucket10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
corona-warn-app/cwa-server
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Backend implementation for the Apple/Google exposure notification API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 1056 reviews, 244 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Hilmar primarily focused on improving the backend functionality of the cwa-server. Their work included fixing MIME type issues related to S3 key identification, and modifying content type headers. The user also implemented features related to graceful shutdowns and addressed issues related to Log4j and dependencies. Additionally, the user worked on updates to the federation builds, enhancing the project's build configuration.
apinotification-apiexposure-notification-apicwa-serverexposure-notification
hilmarf/ocm
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
development-fork
Contributions:2 releases, 20 PRs, 262 pushes in 9 months
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