Thorsten Gau
Chief Technology Officer at IBM
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolThorsten Gau is a seasoned technology leader and IBM Distinguished Engineer serving as Chief Technology Officer for IBM Consulting D-A-CH, with over 30 years of technical leadership and a decade-plus in executive roles. He specializes in transforming public services and healthcare by leading agile teams to deliver cloud-native, compliant solutions across complex enterprise landscapes. As an executive architect he blends hands-on engineering with strategic architecture, driving adoption of modern methods and tooling to accelerate delivery. His background includes steering enterprise architecture at Zurich Insurance, giving him deep experience in regulated industries and integration at scale. Based in Hamburg, he combines academic roots in software engineering with a pragmatic knack for translating regulatory and clinical needs into operational cloud services. Colleagues describe him as a meticulous problem-solver who balances innovation with governance to achieve sustainable modernization.
9 years of coding experience
German University Diploma of Science Computer Software Engineering, German University Diploma of Science Computer Software Engineering at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
English, German, French
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Github Skills (20)
ibm-cloud9
zenhub8
terraform-registry8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
aws7
docker7
rancher5
kubernetes5
orchestration4
react3
container3
container-management3
typescript2
node-red2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
IBM-Hackathon/Hamburg2016
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
IBM-Hackathon/cognitive-apis
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 comment in 15 days
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