Martin Vasko

CIO Consultant

Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna, Austria

Advisory role in IT Strategy and Transformation, working closely with the Group CIO and COO teams on implementing the IT strategy across the group.

• – Regular updates and strategic advice for the Group CIO and COO
• – Establishing group-wide business enablement and tech foundation platforms with senior management and Business & IT stakeholders
• – Guiding the further adoption of cloud technologies for modern application development, data analytics and AI model creation
• – Supporting digital and agile transformation initiatives that integrate Business and IT and streamline processes
• – Fostering IT communities across all involved countries, moderating and coordinating workshops
• – Documentation and resources to coordinate the IT strategy working groups

Endowed Professor of Data Analytics

FH BFI Wien, Vienna, Austria

• – Research and teaching on how AI methods inform business strategy
• – Building AI-supported analytics platforms for quantitative finance scenarios

Tribe Lead Market Operations Next Generation

Software Daten Service (T-Systems), Vienna, Austria

Strategic and operational lead of several development teams (backend, frontend, UX) at SDS, the T-Systems International company building securities processing, tax and regulatory reporting software for the international finance industry.

• – Line management of 41 people in an international matrix organisation for financial software
• – Owned the product and technology roadmap together with product management and architecture
• – Ensured a modern, scalable cloud-native and API-first software architecture
• – Recruiting, coaching and performance management across several teams
• – Close collaboration with internal stakeholders and partner financial institutions
• – Co-developed the technology strategy and internal engineering standards

Lecturer

FH St. Pölten, St. Pölten, Austria

• – Designed and taught courses on Clean Code, Big Data Technologies and Cloud Computing
• – Research project “Escape Room – blended distance learning”
• – Research project “Security audits with Holochain”

Founder & Managing Director

expressFlow GmbH, Austria

Started as a sole proprietorship in 2012 and incorporated as expressFlow GmbH in 2014. Architecture, implementation and operation of distributed cloud applications for enterprise clients.

• – Distributed cloud applications for Raiffeisen, Allianz Technology and Kapsch TrafficCom
• – Spring Boot, Angular, Node.js/Express, MSSQL/DB2, run on AWS, Azure and OpenShift
• – Secure ETL pipelines and orchestration workflows for processing large data volumes
• – Data governance, identity management (OAuth2, Keycloak) and compliance controls
• – 2014: SecureBeam qualified for the ProSiebenSat.1 accelerator, bringing SevenVentures on board
• – 2012: Led requirements engineering for the University of Vienna student service portal (for adesso)

IT Consultant

Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Built and led the business process modelling group in ZEPTA, the programme to capture, digitise and optimise every process of the Austrian pension insurance (PVA).

• – Programme of around 100 domain experts and developers
• – Set up and led the process modelling team

Software Engineer

UPPER Network GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Member of the development team of a SaaS product for enterprise marketing.

• – Optimised the frontend and aligned requirements to improve the product's UX

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate

CIS Information Security Manager

Certified to EN ISO/IEC 17024

Building and running an information security management system according to ISO 27001 and ISO 27002.

Entrepreneurship & Lean Product Management

nest.EDU, Silicon Valley

Three-month, MBA-style post-graduate course in Silicon Valley, graduated with highest honours.

Doctor of Technical Sciences (Dr. techn.)

TU Wien, passed with distinction

Dissertation: “Community-Driven Service Orchestration Modeling”.

ITIL Foundation

Dipl.-Ing. Software Engineering & Internet Computing

TU Wien

Master's thesis: “Workflow modeling languages – commonalities and differences”.

Community-Driven Service Orchestration Modeling

Doctoral dissertation, TU Wien

Introducing collaborative Service Mashup design

Composable Web Workshop, San Sebastián, Spain

Collaborative Modeling of Web Applications for Various Stakeholders

Model-Driven Web Engineering Workshop, San Sebastián, Spain

Community Rating Service and User Buddy Supporting Advices in Community Portals

International Conference on Semantic Systems, Graz, Austria

VieBOP: Extending BPEL Engines by BPEL4People

International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Toulouse, France

A view based analysis of workflow modeling languages

International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Montbéliard-Sochaux, France

Workflow modeling languages – commonalities and differences

Master's thesis, TU Wien

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