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Leon Sczepansky

Senior IT Expert

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IT professional with more than 14 years experience in system & project management, process & test automation and an absolute passion for intra- & entrepreneurship, coding and open source. I am always keen on sharing knowledge and coaching people passionate for IT. If you are looking for a self-starter and autodidact: Let's get in touch.

Work Experience

Senior IT Expert

Bosch Rexroth AG πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
2023-08 - present
Migration from a legacy Manufacturing Execution System to SAP Digital Manufacturing and integration of Industry 4.0 solutions into the IT landscape for production.
  • Leading a project team with internal and external SAP developers
  • Development of a CLI tool for automation and regression tests
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to analyze business and user requirements and design effective solutions

Senior IT Architect

Mercedes-Benz AG πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
2022-08 - 2023-07
Development of architecture guidelines for the transition of legacy applications and infrastructure into a cloud native environment.
  • Onboarded product teams to a centralized logging, monitoring and tracing stack
  • Migrated a Docker Compose-based application to Kubernetes
  • Set up a CI/CD pipeline for a microservice-based application
  • Evaluation of a C# / .Net Library for replacing a proprietary machine communication protocol with OPCUA

Techie & Founder

Codepals OÜ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ͺ
2021-08 - present
I founded a startup company for working on own ideas and projects.
  • Developed a social network MVP with frontend (Svelte), backend (Python & Node.JS) and authentication
  • Digitized a card game using serverless technologies (Cloudflare Workers, Pages, KV, Durable Objects)
  • Organized "Codepals" meetups and joined conferences for developers
  • Registered a company and a trademark in the EU

Expatriate Specialist IT

Daimler Greater China & BBAC πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³
2019-08 - 2021-07
As technical expert for MES systems, I worked in the local IT team for production control.
  • Planned and executed weekly technology and business related trainings for Chinese colleagues
  • Developed an API-backed tool for regression testing of the MES system
  • Developed a smartwatch prototype for the MES system
  • Rolled out the production control system in Beijing/Shunyi

Project Manager & System Coordinator

Mercedes-Benz AG πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³
2014-11 - 2019-07
System expert for the MES in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Beijing
  • Supplier-, Incident-, Change-, Problem-, Release- and Test Management
  • Led various projects in the MES area ensuring the production readiness of the plant in Beijing for new car and engine models
  • Developed a machine simulator in Python to reproduce production issues in the lab

IT Performance Manager

Daimler AG πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ
2012-10 - 2014-10
IT internal controlling and reporting of KPIs.
  • Drove and supported financial reporting and planning within the IT organization for Sales, After Sales and Financial Services in Europe & USA by introducing an Excel-based planning tool & automation technologies
  • Supported development of cross-country benchmarking, operative planning and SLA Management

Dual Study Programme

Daimler Financial Services AG πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­
2009-10 - 2012-09
Worked and studied while getting to know different part of the Mercedes-Benz Group with six internships, in different departments and entities, one of them in Bangkok.
  • 1st Internship: IT Performance Management at Daimler
  • 2nd Internship: IT Project Reporting at Mercedes-Benz Vertrieb Deutschland
  • 3rd Internship: Risk Management at Daimler Financial Services
  • 4th Internship: Controlling at Mercedes-Benz Leasing Thailand
  • 5th Internship: Project Support for rolling out a budget planning tool at Daimler
  • 6th Internship: Bachelorthesis - Entwicklung eines Incident-Management-Konzeptes fΓΌr Cloud Umgebungen bei der Daimler TSS GmbH

Volunteering

Advisor in a youth summer camp

Evangelisches Waldheim Lindental
2017-08 - 2018-09

Inspirer / Mentor (Python, HTML, JavaScript)

Hacker School gGmbH
2021-10 - present