Uwe Drechsel
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Self-employed
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolUwe Drechsel is a seasoned Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Nuremberg with over 15 years of hands-on experience leading globally distributed teams across embedded Linux, automotive, and cloud domains. He excels at turning groups of software experts into high-performing teams by "managing the system, not the people," and has a track record of delivering complex projects from supplier-managed Linux stacks to cloud and onboard automotive products. His background spans technical roles at SUSE and Elektrobit, where he combined project leadership, product ownership, and escalation management to bridge engineering, customers, and partners. Trained in mathematics and teaching, and certified in NLP and transformative leadership, he brings a rare mix of analytical rigor, people coaching, and process design to scale engineering organizations. An experienced beta and release manager, Uwe is adept at running mission-critical programs and 24x7 support models that keep enterprise customers running.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
NLP Master Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner at Dr. Gundl Kutschera - kutschera communicationTransformative Leader and Growth Path Finder, Transformative Leader and Growth Path Finder at SHIFTSCHOOLMathematics Diploma, state exams for teaching at Gymnasium (secondary school), Mathemactics, Physics, Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mathematics Diploma, state exams for teaching at Gymnasium (secondary school), Mathemactics, Physics, Educational Sciences and Psychology at Universität Bayreuth
French
Github Skills (54)
qt10
project-management10
upstream10
sourceforge10
vue10
mindmap10
mind-mapping10
python9
mozilla9
music8
php8
javascript7
android7
topojson7
gpx7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Osndok/vym
Nov 2010 - Mar 2021
GUI mind-mapping tool - "View Your Mind" - Mirror from upstream (SourceForge)
Contributions:2080 commits in 10 years 6 months
pythonsourceforgeguiupstreammapping
insilmaril/vym
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
View Your Mind
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 818 commits in 1 year 10 months
mindmapvuemindproject-managementbrainstorming
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