Thilo Horstmann
Independent IT Consultant & Software Engineer at Freelance
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolThilo Horstmann is an experienced technology executive and independent IT consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling software for startups and large enterprises. He combines a PhD-level computer science background with practical leadership as former CTO of AIDA Cruises, where he led digital transformation across global teams. His work spans AI strategy and implementation, DevOps-driven cloud architectures, and advanced RAG and AI agent solutions that deliver measurable business value. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded and scaled multiple ventures, including a social gaming startup and an early popular mobile Twitter client that pioneered geo-tagging. He is equally comfortable in the trenches as a developer and at the executive table, emphasizing accountability, coaching, and creative problem solving. Based in Hamburg, he brings a rare blend of research pedigree, product intuition, and delivery discipline to complex digital challenges.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Fraunhofer FIT, Schloß Birlinghoven, St. AugustinDipl.-Informatiker (Master of Computer Science) Computer Science, Dipl.-Informatiker (Master of Computer Science) Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Github Skills (20)
pipeline8
gocd7
continuous-integration7
clojure6
continuous-delivery6
continuous-testing6
libfdk-aac5
junit5
cd5
homebridge4
homekit4
aws-lambda4
alexa-skills-kit4
aws4
build-pipelines4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thilo11/lambdacd-junit
Feb 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 2 years 2 months
reportsserverlessaws-lambdalambdacdjunit-reports
costacruise/costacruise.github.io
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 months
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