Boris Diebold
Bis 2017, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Babbel (Lesson Nine GmbH)
Berlin, Deutschland
Werdegang
Berufserfahrung von Boris Diebold
Leading all company technology efforts in product engineering, platform and workplace with 80+ people. Developed by a team of language learning experts, Babbel has helped millions of people speak a new language with confidence - being the shortest path to real-life conversations. *Named 2016’s “most innovative company in education” by Fast Company* *The World’s Highest Grossing Language Learning App*
1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Okt. 2015 - Nov. 2016
Executive VP Product & Engineering
Babbel (Lesson Nine GmbH)Leading product and engineering with 70+ heads - established new product vision and strategy - growing product management, product design and UX research functions - kickstarted new technology efforts around NLP, AI and ML - formed analytics and data engineering teams - established marketing tech teams - continued evolution of organisation and processes to keep up with overall company growth
Leading and growing engineering from 20 to 50+ heads - introduced agile and engineering practices - built cross-functional teams - mentoring and growing techleads - pushed employer branding and tech recruiting Ensured scaling to 1M+ active subscribers
During my 12 years at Accenture, I focused on building and enabling software delivery teams based on various technologies and methodologies and leading the successful delivery of software products for clients in travel & logistics, automotive, retail and insurance sectors.
7 Jahre und 9 Monate, Jan. 1994 - Sep. 2001
founder, project manager, r&d
d-lusion interactive media
d-lusion interactive media was first to introduce a TB-303 like software synthesizer for the pc back in 1996. With MJ Studio we pioneered MP3 music mixing and defined realtime audio processing. In 2001, d-lusion joined Native Instruments and laid the foundation for the world-famous Traktor DJ-ing line.
2 Jahre und 7 Monate, März 1996 - Sep. 1998
student software engineer
CoCreate Software GmbH
Student software Engineer (Lisp, C++) - implemented large parts of the partner integration API - automated unit tests Originally part of Hewlett Packard´s Mechanical Design Division, CoCreate Software GmbH became independant in 1997 and was taken over 2001 by PTC
Ausbildung von Boris Diebold
3 Monate, Mai 2000 - Juli 2000
Computer Vision/Robotik
ETH Zürich
Robotik
Weizmann Institue of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
Informatik
Universität Tübingen
Robotik, Computergraphik
Sprachen
Deutsch
Muttersprache
Englisch
Fließend
Französisch
Fließend