Leon Sczepansky
Senior IT Expert
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
Senior IT Expert
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
Senior IT Architect
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
Techie & Founder
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
Expatriate Specialist IT
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
Project Manager & System Coordinator
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
IT Performance Manager
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
Dual Study Programme
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