Stefan Vaillant
Chief Technology Officer at Cumulocity
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Vaillant is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with three decades of enterprise software experience and a track record of scaling startups into market-leading platforms. As co-founder and long-time architect of Cumulocity IoT, he helped grow the company to Gartner-recognized leadership and later shepherded its technology direction within Software AG. He combines product management, sales-aligned architecture, and delivery expertise to ensure products implement business strategy quickly and efficiently across international teams. His background spans hands-on engineering through executive roles at Nokia Siemens Networks, blending deep systems architecture with commercial product thinking. Based in the Cologne/Bonn region, he is known for aligning cross-product architectures and evangelizing technology to drive business outcomes. An understated strength is his ability to move between startup agility and large-scale enterprise coordination, preserving speed without sacrificing governance.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
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Github Skills (20)
hugo10
cumulocity10
aws-iot10
iot-analytics10
iot-framework9
iot-cloud9
software-update9
edge-computing9
iot9
iot-platform8
protocols6
instant-messaging6
http6
mqtt6
networking6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
Cumulocity-IoT/c8y-docs
Jul 2014 - Dec 2016
Cumulocity IoT guides and documentation
Contributions:34 commits in 2 years 5 months
iot-analyticscumulocity-documentationcumulocity-iotcumulocityiot
SoftwareAG/softwareag-reference-architecture
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 branch in 1 month
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