Lenny Daume
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WPS MANAGEMENT GMBH

100% Remote / Paderborn

CTO at WPS MANAGEMENT // wescale

Chief Technology Officer

September 2023 - June 2025
1 year 10 months
Full-time
Product work
100% Remote / Paderborn

Relevance

Why this case matters

This framing makes the decision signal explicit: impact, proof, fit, and AI / delivery relevance for hiring or collaboration.

System impact

Strengthened a delivery system across 15 teams, scaled 100+ developers remotely, and replaced activity metrics with flow-based execution.

AI / delivery relevance

Established delivery rules, golden paths, and guardrails for a large-scale engineering system under real operational pressure.

Remote scalingCTO transformationAgile coachingProduct ownershipFlow metricsCloud-nativePCI DSS 4.0Cypress

Proof

15 teams

led cross-functionally

100+ devs

scaled remotely

~70%

faster deployments

Especially relevant for

  • Hiring
  • Head of Engineering
  • CTO-level
  • Fractional transformation

Case context

Overview

WPS MANAGEMENT needed remote product development at 100+ developer scale to stay steerable without adding another coordination layer. I led 15 cross-functional Scrum teams with FaST Agile, flow signals (cycle time, lead time), and cloud-native architecture on GCP/Azure. The setup also included internationally distributed freelancers, including Turkey and Cyprus, plus technical alignment with team leads around GKE-adjacent platform responsibility.

The work shifted attention from output steering to better delivery frequency, higher team autonomy, and clearer golden paths. The important part is not the framework. It is that product development can stay steerable even in large remote scaling.

Responsibility

Activities

  • Remote leadership of 15 Scrum teams with 100+ developers without adding another coordination layer
  • Led the Agile Coaches team and evolved product ownership, flow, and delivery practices
  • FaST Agile implementation: flow signals, team autonomy, golden paths
  • Cloud-native transformation (GCP/Azure): Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code
  • GitLab/GitLab CI and GKE context in the platform and delivery landscape; operational GKE responsibility sat with the responsible team lead
  • Microservices architecture: Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh
  • DevOps culture: "You build it, you run it", Cypress tests, automated testing, monitoring
  • Compliance governance: first PCI DSS 4.0 draft and recurring alignment with Visa stakeholders
  • Distributed organization: integrated internationally distributed freelancers and external capacity into shared quality, review, and delivery standards
  • Product thinking: Outcome-focused development, user value measurement
  • Team enablement: shared ownership and cross-functional collaboration

Operating mode

Methodology

  • FaST Agile: flow signals, team autonomy, outcome focus
  • Scrum: Cross-functional teams, sprint planning, retrospectives
  • DevOps: Continuous integration/deployment, Cypress tests, infrastructure-as-code
  • Product thinking: User value, impact measurement, iterative development
  • Team enablement: shared ownership and golden paths

Technical context

Technology stack

The tools are not the point by themselves. What matters is which system layers had to work together.

7Areas
38Technologies

Backend

7
JavaSpring BootSpring CloudSpring DataNode.jsPythonFastAPI

Frontend

3
TypeScriptJavaScriptVue.js

DevOps

10
KubernetesDockerGCPAzureTerraformAnsiblePrometheusGrafanaGKEDevSecOps

Databases & Storage

3
PostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearch

Tools

6
GitLabCypressJiraConfluenceSlackMicrosoft Teams

CI/CD & Delivery Pipelines

3
GitLab CIJenkinsSonarQube

Practices

6
Agile TestingAgile CoachingProduct OwnershipPCI DSS 4.0Visa Stakeholder ManagementInternational Distributed Teams

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