Summary
Rudy Norff is a Principal Ecosystem Architect with 16 years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, now driving platform and integration strategy at Vorwerk. He led cross-functional teams at Vodafone to modernize front-end stacks, launch CI/CD pipelines and replatform major sites, delivering measured 2–3x developer speed improvements within a year. His hands-on background spans Node.js serverless middleware for voice assistants, iOS (Swift/Obj‑C) apps including a top‑100 paid app and an OpenGL ES game, plus early work on battery‑friendly always‑on Android TCP connections. A certified Scrum Master who insists on unit testing, CI and secure approvals, he also mentors teams and manages external vendors across multicultural environments. Notably, he sells and operationalizes vision—convincing stakeholders to adopt new architectures and then owning architecture, integration, documentation and onboarding to make them real.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Information and Communication Technology, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Information and Communication Technology at Fontys Venlo University of Applied Sciences