Laureen Arnault Gourden

Human Resources

Laureen joined us early 2016 to support HR administration.

Studying International Business online via a french Business School, she will graduate in 2017 and plans to specialize in Human Resources afterwards.
Thanks to her previous experiences, Laureen gathered Team Management skills that she now uses to master the challenges that distributed teams provide.

When she is not working or studying, she likes to travel and is interested in science like biology or astronomy.

Sergio Banús

Senior hybris developer

Sergio has been working as Software Engineer since 2005 and joined us in 2013. He is experienced with object oriented programming languages with a strong commitment to quality. He has always been inspired by jobs that request the use of imagination and creative solutions and where the combination of formal plus creative thinking is required. His area of expertise includes object oriented programming in general, software architecture, backend and frontend solutions as well as advance database administration, research, project administration and quality gates moderator.

He's a person that lives his life to the fullest, through all kind of sports, traveling, learning about different cultures and meeting new people. For him the best things in life are family and friends.

Ionut Bautoru

Senior Java Developer

Ionut graduated from the West University in Timisoara, faculty of Computer Science in 2003. Since then, he has worked as a software engineer for several companies using mainly Java and Abap programming languages. In 2012, he started working on his first E-Commerce implementation and he remained in this area ever since. He's a certified Hybris and Abap developer and can cover various roles during a project life cycle.

On the personal side he enjoys fishing and is always in search for that big catch.

Katarzyna Bloch

Team assistant

Katarzyna – active, enthusiastic and experienced manager with high organizational and managerial skills related to administrative, operational, bookkeeping, HR or business matters.

Having finished Marketing & Management studies, running own companies and also traveling and living abroad made her a very open and inquisitive minded person, who not only manages the work well, but also builds effective working relationship, both internal and external.

Living her best both in a private, social and professional life is her life goal.

Kai Borst

Junior Developer

Kai joined us in May 2016. He gained his 3 years experience as JAVA developer in a BioTech company where he evolved to the lead developer of the company's own peptido-memetic drug discovery software suite.
This gave him the opportunity to gain experience in automation, batch processing and data management.
He is very interested in upcoming new software developments committed to Big Data (NoSQL, distributed computing and stream processing).

By joining Striped Giraffe he gets the possibility to proceed as a Hybris specialist.

Łukasz Cempulik

Architect DWH and BI

Łukasz has been working in BI since 2003. After completing his studies he started working with SQL and PL/SQL in the area of data cleansing and data migration.

He become a team leader responsible for architecture design, development, implementation of data migration and synchronization tools based on ETL process.

Now Łukasz is looking for new challenges in BI and ETL.

Marcin Czapiewski

Senior JAVA Developer

Marcin graduated programming science at Technical University of Koszalin. Programming is his passion, hobby and lifestyle.
His adventure with programming began in the early years of primary school. In college, he met pure object-oriented languages such as JAVA or C#. Because of many standards and openness, he decided to specialize in JAVA. Marcin specializes in this task where the most important priorities are time and quality. During the implementation of many projects he noted that the main factor influencing a project success is the human factor, thoroughly “protein relations” that exist in teams. That's why Marcin decided to expand his competencies in project management. Privately he is a husband and father.

Martina Deffner

CEO, ETL and BI specialist

Martina studied mathematics in Munich, and has since specialised in IT. Since 1996, she has worked with databases initially in PL1, DB2 and Oracle. For over ten years, she has been very successful in dealing with Informatica and the implementation of BI projects in the enterprise environment.

In addition to ETL, Martina is responsible for management at Striped Giraffe. She has a great sense of humour and a strong sense of responsibility towards our clients, employees and the company.

Johannes Emmerig

Work placement student

He made his first steps in SQL at Striped Giraffe, and he is now an Oracle Application Express expert. In addition to a master degree in physics from LMU Munich, from which he will graduate in a few years, he is also planning to undergo Java and hybris training.

Robert Gruca

Business Analyst

Robert graduated computer science at Silesian University of Technology in 1999. Since then he has worked as developer, quality assurance analyst and manager and finally ended up somewhere between business analyst and project manager. His primary focus has always been around quality and delivering solutions that meet customer expectations. Last few years he spent working for hybris professional services and was involved in direct project implementations for various customers.

Outside of work he enjoys spending time scuba diving, especially in underwater cave systems in Mexico and Florida or visiting sunken ship wrecks.

Alexandru Ilea

Senior JAVA Developer

Alex, graduated at the Technical University in Cluj Napoca, faculty of Computer Science in 2008.
He started to work as a software engineer at a top software company in Cluj Napoca. During the following years he had the chance to work with very talented people and accumulate experience by working with different technologies and challenging projects which helped him to grow on a personal and professional level. Additionally he had improved his communication and leadership skills as a scrum master and team leader. He sees himself as an optimistic person who always sees the good sides of things. He does his best to take fully advantage of what life has to offer.

Robert Kalman

JAVA Developer

Robert's journey in computer science started with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, which he joined in 2009.
In January 2014 he started to work as a software engineer on Java in Cluj-Napoca. After one month of employment he also began his friendship with Hybris, starting with the training, and developing on Hybris since then. He had the opportunity to work on a number of challenging projects, with experienced people, which improved his technical and social skills. As a team player, he enjoys working with people and believes that the best way to grow on a professional and personal level is to surround yourself with interesting people with whom to interchange experience with.

Kai Lâm

Business Consultant

Having gained professional experiences in various roles on a diversity of projects and software product development for global players and market leaders in industries like reinsurance, logistics, telecommunications, healthcare as well as online retail and internet startups with focus on e-business, ECM, CRM, EAI and mobile,
Kai adds value to any project as a versatile all-rounder being exposed to the full SDLC and interfacing between business and IT.
Due to his open mind attitude and flexibility he has been able to succeed in different working environments of international, globally distributed as well as local team setups - remote or onsite - worldwide.

Przemyslaw Lichon

JAVA Developer

Przemek began his adventure in IT in 1999 while he was completing his 1st degree in mathematics. During the fifteen-year career as a programmer and designer, he gained experience in various sectors including: telecommunications, insurance, energy companies and emergency notification centers. Parallel to this, he successfully completed his 2nd degree in informatics and became a certified PLSQL and Java programmer.

Przemek enjoys meeting new people, taking part in new projects, sharing experience and knowledge with others.

Adam Maj

Senior Developer

Adam started his professional career in .NET and C++ development. In his work he used many technologies and frameworks, ultimately moved to JAVA. Most of his experience is focused around backend software and databases. He was involved in the large projects for various sectors, including B2B, telecommunications, trade and warehousing.

His strongest trait is intellectual curiosity. Adam wants to know more than the basic or the common knowledge. He likes new challenges, learns something new. Generally this skill can be beneficial for other team members, finally profitable for the each project.

Wojciech Oleksy

Architect DWH and BI

Wojciech started his career in IT 8 years ago. In 2013 he also obtained a PhD in computer science. He has specialized in BI/DWH area and has been working with many databases including Oracle, SAP and Teradata.

He likes to travel (the farther the better), cook (especially with his wife) and do sports (including extreme ones)

Colum O’Reilly

Projectmanager

Colum helps customers implement solutions. He's built over 10 years Project Management experience on top of 10 years as a Software Developer and is well versed in all areas of the SDLC. He loves a challenge and likes nothing better than working with an efficient team, delivering complex projects to happy customers, on-time and on-budget.

Alice Peterhänsel

Backoffice

Alice studied German philology at the LMU Munich until she discovered journalism when she worked as a work placement student at Hubert Burda Media, where she later trained as a journalist. Since 2009, she has worked as a freelance writer and project manager for a variety of clients with a focus on corporate publishing, e-commerce, editorial shopping, social media, and ghost-writing. In addition to her administrative and bookkeeping duties, she is also responsible for anything related to writing, journalism and public relations.

Sławomir Przednowek

Senior JAVA Developer & Architect

Slawomir works as Software and Solution Architect and Java Developer for Striped Giraffe. He graduated in Informatics in 2003 from the Silesian University of Technology. He has been working for the Telco industry for 13 years as a developer and architect, he has experience with bank and financial systems, as well as with Telco specific BI.
He thinks that every developer or other technical person should start solving problems by understanding the business' context and needs, and that this is essential in order to do the right job.

In his spare time, he likes sports like mountain biking and spending time with his family.

Gunnar Rohde

CEO, Senior Principal Consultant

Gunnar has been working in various IT areas using a range of different technologies for over 25 years. His strengths lie in building bridges between business and IT, because he is well versed in both worlds. Gunnar can take on and be responsible for most roles in projects.

At Striped Giraffe, Gunnar is responsible for the e-commerce sector, business strategy and management.

Olexiy Sokurenko

Senior Java Developer

Olexiy joined us in June 2016. He got his first degree as engineer of metallurgy in Ukraine in 2000. After moving to Germany in 2001 he graduated as IT specialist for application development. Olexiy has over 12 years of work experience; He has worked in logistics, environmental protection and monitoring areas, on both B2C and B2B projects. During this time he has changed this focus from database development with Oracle PL/SQL over to Java development and then to Hybris. He thinks that today we live in the most exciting time in the human history and dreams of traveling the world and looks forward to experience the future digital disruption. Olexiy likes working in international dynamic environments and mingle with colleagues after hours.

Jos Strijbosch

Sales Representative NL, ecommerce consultant

Jos Strijbosch a motivated and enthusiastic person, more than 15 years in the e-business and always looking for the best solution for the customer. Many experience in ERP, BI, BPM and commerce. Worked for different companies in IT since 25 years.

Jos did business with companies like; Belgacom, Rabobank, Blokker Holding, Leen Bakker, BCT, Brainwave, Infront, QNH, Servoy, Grunenthal, Xeed, Nashuatec, Xerox, OCE, Raet, Be-Value, Philips, NXP, Progress (SAAS), OAD, Boskalis Sharepoint Portals, Politie Academie, Jongeneel and many more

Mariusz Swies

Architect and Senior JAVA Developer

After completing his studies, Mariusz began his career in IT in .NET development and moved over to JAVA shortly afterwards. In addition to being responsible for the architecture in his projects, Mariusz is also responsible for training our developers, and is one of the rare species that can fill the role of a business analyst.

His motto as an architect is a quote from Albert Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." In his view, this is best understood when one has to maintain his / her own applications.

Jan Szostek

Junior developer

LJan graduated in computer science at the Silesian University of Technology in 2003. He then started his professinal carreer in JAVA/JSP development. In 2012 he finished his postgraduate studies in project management at the WSB University in Poznan.
He used many technologies and frameworks related to JAVA but also has experience with Oracle, Siebel, CTRL-m, APEX. He spent the last few years working with Groovy/Grails and SmartClient.

In his spare time he likes to cook and walking with his beagle.

Ingo Taraske

Senior Java Developer, Business Analyst

Ingo joined us in June 2016. He graduated in business administration at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz in 2006.
He has started his career in IT as developer for a web design studio in Bologna, Italy, before joining a leading SAP Partner and becoming SAP Consultant focusing on the areas of SAP MDM, NetWeaver Portal, eCommerce and CRM.
He participated in international projects with global teams in the roles of SME, team lead with project management tasks, project manager and solution architect. In the last years he was managing projects, analysing business requirements and performing enhancements in the areas of SAP CRM/SD for a SAP customer.

Fred Tieken

Senior JAVA Developer

Fred has over 20 years of IT experience and had many IT roles since he graduated in 1992. Started as a c developer he moved to Java in 2000 and have worked with it ever since.

Before roling into the eCommerce sector Fred joined various projects concerning banking, insurance and energy sector. Besides programming he is also a scrum master and a team player.

Jeannette van Dalsum

Accounting

Jeannette is responsible for sending our employees in the right directions. She checks our numbers and prepares our books for our Accounting department. Studied Marketing and Advertising at the Bavarian Advertising Academy (BAW) and has been working as a Client Manager in advertising and event agencies for 15 years.

She loves to travel and has been around the world many times with her Kiwi husband and two children.

Rafal Wardas

Senior Developer DWH & BI

Rafal joined us beginning of 2016. He graduated in Computer Science from the Silesian University of Technology in 2010 and is currently studying for his MBA. He has previously worked for different major companies and has 6 years of experience in Enterprise Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.

During his spare time, he likes activities like skiing, speedriding and freediving. He is also passionate about automotive and currency markets.

Krzysztof Wiśniewski

Architect DWH and BI

Throughout his over 10 years IT career he has acquired multitude of skills including DWH/BI system designing and project management. He worked mainly for companies in the energy and telecommunications industries. He is familiar in many database engines including Oracle and Teradata.
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" - this quote, for him, is about enjoying what he is doing, and doing what he enjoys.

Krzysztof is seeking new professional challenges in the Business Intelligence area. He is interested in the Internet of Things issues.

Dariusz Wlaz

Architect and Senior JAVA Developer

Dariusz is not only a JAVA programmer but also a very experienced JAVA developer. JAVA is his second mother tongue, and he can face up to and overcome challenges in every aspect of it. In his projects, he guarantees high quality of source code and supports business process analysis as well as technical enterprise architecture at the highest level.

His friendly manner contributes to a good atmosphere in the team. Although he is an undisputed authority in his field, he is always ready to share his experience and knowledge with everyone involved.