I am a software engineer who has been working in the telco/network software industry since 1999. I have started at a Fraunhofer research institute in Berlin and moved to the industry in 2006 after a North Carolina based company called Tekelec acquired a Fraunhofer spin-off. I was part of Oracle’s Communication Global Business Unit for 6 years after Tekelec was acquired by Oracle. I work currently for a German start-up called Emnify which offers global network connectivity for IOT devices.
I have witnessed a lot of technology paradigm shifts during my career: all IP, Voice over IP (SIP/WebRTC), mobile broadband (UMTS, LTE) and, more recently cloud based computing and software defined networks.