Ole Lilienthal is a Senior Development Manager based in Berlin with over a decade of experience building cloud-native enterprise software and five-plus years leading engineering organizations at SAP. He currently heads a multinational team responsible for the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, BTP Marketplace and market rates services, blending product thinking with platform engineering. Previously he led the backend team for the German Corona-Warn-App, contributing hands-on to backend and DevOps work such as refactoring resource loading and migrating object storage—demonstrating comfort across application logic and infrastructure. Trained in IT-Systems Engineering with Stanford ME310 exposure and coaching certification, he pairs rigorous technical depth with people-centered leadership. Known for pragmatic migrations and deployment improvements, he focuses on reliable, auditable systems that scale across global teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT-Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
Integral Business Coaching, Integral Business Coaching at Coaching Center Berlin
ME310 (http://me310.stanford.edu), ME310 (http://me310.stanford.edu) at Stanford University
Backend implementation for the Apple/Google exposure notification API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:9 releases, 44 commits, 48 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ole made several contributions related to the backend infrastructure and deployment of the CWA-server. Their work included refactoring resource loading, clarifying object storage access, and migrating Flyway configurations. Furthermore, the user was involved in replacing the MinIO object storage with CloudServer, which included configuring public read ACLs. This showcases a focus on both application logic and the supporting infrastructure.
Documentation on the SAP Cloud SDK (both Java and JavaScript). The source code of the SAP Cloud SDK for JavaScript has moved to https://github.com/SAP/cloud-sdk-js.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
sap-cloud-sdkjavascriptsap-hanacloud-sdksdk
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