Johannes Kastl
Director Digital Product Development KION ITS EMEA at KION Group
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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SeniorJohannes Kastl is a technology leader with nine years of experience driving digital product development and architecture across automotive and industrial technology at KION Group and Daimler. Currently Director Digital Product Development for KION ITS EMEA, he blends product ownership, team leadership, and software architecture to deliver connected, enterprise-grade solutions. His background in connected car platforms and emerging technologies reflects a strong focus on integrating cloud, telematics, and data-driven features into operational products. Johannes has progressed from hands-on NLP and text-mining work during his time at SAP to shaping cross-functional development organizations, showing both technical depth and strategic vision. Based in Darmstadt, he is comfortable operating at the intersection of R&D, product, and delivery while scaling teams and architectures across regions. A not-obvious strength is his early NLP/master’s thesis experience, which informs a pragmatic approach to leveraging data and machine intelligence in product roadmaps.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
proxy10
bitnami10
ubuntu10
automation10
k8s10
operator10
vagrant10
database-access10
audit10
ceph10
teleport10
whiteboard10
filesystem10
baking10
visualization10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
johanneskastl/ansible-role-install_k3s
May 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
johanneskastl/ansible-role-put_hostname_into_index_html
Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
Puts the hostname into a index.html (used by apache or nginx)
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
nginxhostnameindexphpapache
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