Summary
Jan Schwoebel is a post-sales technical leader and Director of Customer Engineering for AI Software Solutions at HPE, bringing over 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling customer-facing engineering teams for cloud-native and AI/ML products. He has a track record of founding and growing Customer Engineering, Sales Engineering, Support, and Success functions—scaling teams from zero to high-performing units while driving NRR and GRR improvements. Jan blends deep technical skills (Python, Kubernetes, storage and virtualization) with strategic program leadership, having reduced escalation rates and accelerated deployments through automation and process improvements. He’s equally comfortable writing Colab notebooks for proofs-of-value as he is briefing executives on critical accounts and product roadmaps. Based in Munich, he advises startups on DevOps transformations and participates in elite industry networks, reflecting a mix of startup grit and enterprise program execution. A practical operator who still codes, Jan often turns operational pain points into automated tooling that measurably improves customer outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Startup Founder Track - Startup School, Startup Founder Track - Startup School at Y Combinator
German, English