Thomas Hesse
Senior Principal at IBM
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Hesse is a Senior Principal IT Solution Architect with over two decades of experience in architecture and delivery, specializing in integration, API management and cloud technologies. He has led global teams (up to 40 historically, 30 recently) and designed end-to-end enterprise solutions across public sector, financial services and telecoms. Since 2017 he has focused deeply on webMethods API Gateway, Microgateway and Developer Portal, and since 2020 on cloud-native deployments, combining hands-on implementation with strategic API design. A maintainer of an open-source webMethods API Gateway staging solution, he bridges vendor expertise with community tooling to streamline API lifecycles. Currently based in Göttingen, Germany, he brings a rare blend of research-grade analytical training (Dr. rer. nat. in Physics) and practical program delivery at firms including IBM, Software AG and Capgemini. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that balances governance, scalability and global delivery constraints.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Physiker, Physik, Diplom-Physiker, Physik at University of HamburgDr. rer. nat., Physik, Dr. rer. nat., Physik at Ulm University
German, English
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Github Skills (67)
dns-record9
azure9
command-line-interface9
terraform9
azure-cli9
terraform-provider9
webmethods9
ingress9
aws9
podman8
dns8
gcp8
microsoft-azure8
kubeadm8
azure-resource-manager8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thesse1/webmethods-api-gateway-staging
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 28 PRs, 1665 pushes in 11 months
thesse1/webmethods-helm-charts
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
This repository contains a collection of Helm charts for various webMethods components.
Contributions:8 PRs, 39 pushes, 28 branches in 2 months
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