Michael Herwig

Senior Manager Software Development

Vector Informatik GmbH

• Turning a support team into an internal developer platform
• Own build systems and the workflow automation tool alongside it
• Set the team's strategic direction and the topics it takes on
• Drive AI adoption through hands-on workshops
• Cut release lead time towards daily deployment
• Shorten feedback loops with our internal customers
• Dogfood our own products and open-source the workflow glue
• Embed quality standards and a shared definition of done
• Coach engineers into new tools and open communication
• Still review build, automation and release architecture

Software Engineer

Vector Informatik GmbH

• Built a shared CMake framework for product-wide quality gates
• Integrated external QA providers into the build system
• Shipped escrow builds that still reproduce offline in 30 years
• Rolled out dev containers, cutting setup from days to an hour
• Extended the team from CMake-only to Gradle as well
• Built the Gradle infrastructure and trained the team on it
• Cut pipeline runtime with caching, profiling and monitoring
• Restructured repositories and automated the release process
• Owned features end to end, gathering stakeholder feedback

IT Administrator

Grundbau Jansen GmbH

• Administered servers and network services
• Ran security audits and layered the security protocols

Software Engineer

GTS Systems and Consulting GmbH

• Developed network services
• Introduced and integrated TLS across all services
• Optimized data structures, data flow and memory layout
• Parallelized and optimized algorithms
• Trained and mentored coworkers
• Virtualized server infrastructure and network services
• Refactored the legacy code base
• Automated build, test, analysis and deployment
• Wrote and maintained work instructions

Grimoire

Package manager for AI-agent configuration across ten coding agents

grimoire.rs

OCX

Package manager for pre-built toolchains distributed over OCI registries

ocx.sh

Microsoft's C++ Standard Library Contribution

Two of three pull requests merged into the MSVC standard library

github.com/microsoft/STL

L1 Blockchain Engineering

CryptoNote framework and chain; 200+ nodes, components reused by other forks

gitlab.com/galaxia-project-archive

Network Improvements and Security Fixes

Fixes to network protocol, database layer and block verification

turtlecoin.lol

Computer Science M.Sc.

RWTH Aachen, Germany

MajorsIT security, algorithmic cryptography, distributed systems

GradesDegree 1.8 · Thesis 1.0German scale, 1.0 best, 4.0 lowest pass

Computer Science B.Sc.

RWTH Aachen, Germany

MajorsEfficient algorithms, high-performance computation, parallel programming, operations research

GradesDegree 2.6 · Thesis 1.3German scale, 1.0 best, 4.0 lowest pass

C · C++ · Rust · C# · Python · Starlark · Bash · TypeScript

Docker · ESXi · Azure · GitLab CI · GitHub Actions · CMake

boost · tokio · libp2p · RocksDB · Qt · OpenCL

IT security · Cryptography · Distributed systems · DevSecOps · AI agent tooling · Profiling

Team leadership · Scrum master · Product owner · Agile delivery · Mentoring

German (native) · English (fluent) · Chinese (basic, lapsed) · French (basic, lapsed)