Hi,

I am Finn. I am a “Director of Engineering” at MOIA, one of the leading ride sharing companies.

And as there are many ways to build what we consider a “good” product – most certainly, there is not the one way – there are many perspectives, too. Here I share some of my own perspectives:

Read Blog Posts

• My 20 months leadership journey. (Sept, 2022). This is a reflection of 1.5 years in the role of a “Director of Engineering” at MOIA, my first full time and (with this title) explicit leadership role.
• MOIA’s hybrid working model – a nice post about our 9 month journey to a remote working model which values focused work at home with less hours in commute as much as real-human interaction in an office.
• MOIA Ice Cream Model of Growth and Career
• Our Learnings from Five Months Without Production Feedback
• Moin MOIA – This is about leaving ThoughtWorks and starting a new job at MOIA
• A Star Trek Fan-Fiction Retrospective – including a template to download.
• Don’t let Architecture Astronauts Scare You – this post takes you on a journey to almost 20 years of software development
• Service Integration – this is a quick read about anti-patterns in service integrations via data lakes
• Dimensions of Quality – this is a post-series (5 parts) which encapsulates my entire holistic approach to quality
• Quality Mindset at ThoughtWorks Germany – „QA is so much more than testing.“ But what exactly?
• How To: Consumer Driven Contract Tests
• A guide to testing micro services
• Are We Only Test Manager? – An English translation of the German Otto.de Blog Post.
• Process Automation and Continuous Delivery at OTTO.de
• Testing with Frank – This is my oldest blog post about one of the first iOS automation frameworks (from 2014)

Watch Conference Talks

• Quality Titans – How much Quality do you need at what point of time in your project? How do you get the this level? And how much is too much?
• Better, Faster, Stronger – Delivering High Quality Products – this is my talk about all the steps a QA can be involved throughout the story life cycle
• The Business Value of Quality – this talk is about finding the right balance between speed and quality
• Building a High Quality Product – this recording is from the DevOps conference DevOne in Linz

Listen to Podcasts

• Podcast about the journey to continuous deployments at Otto.de
• Latest trends in Software Feature Development: A/B Tests, Canary Releases, Feedback Loops

All thoughts and opinion are my own. They are intended to be inspiration, not a template or strict guide.

All the best,
Finn