Summary
Lothar Schulz is a seasoned CTO and engineering leader with 11+ years driving secure, scalable software delivery and infrastructure across startups and large enterprises. He has led organizations up to 45+ engineers, delivered zero-downtime migrations for 60M+ users, and cut cloud costs by 45% while achieving ISO 27001, SOC 2 and ISAE 3000 certifications. His background spans hands-on product engineering, serverless backends, CI/CD platforms and 24x7 operational models at companies like Zalando, Miro and AIVITEX. Lothar combines technical strategy with operational rigor—building resilient deployment pipelines, onboarding hundreds of engineers into CI/CD, and standing up global on-call systems. Based in Berlin, he is also an active public speaker and maintains a technical presence through his website and GitHub, signaling a continuous passion for coding and community knowledge sharing. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who bridges security, cost-efficiency and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Informatiker, computer science, Dipl. Informatiker, computer science at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)
English