Dr. Michael Strobel

Engineering leader in Munich, building and running product organisations — currently as Head of IT Management at the Technical University of Munich, previously as Vice President Engineering at Smart Reporting GmbH.

At TUM I lead a 25-person product organisation across four teams. Its remit spans the university’s in-house engineering and AI work as well as its central enterprise applications — the SAP S/4HANA transformation among them, which I steer directly — and extends to advising the CIO on technology and AI strategy across the wider TUM IT estate. We have rolled out chatbots across the university and taken the TUM Trust Center to the other Bavarian universities; among the internal platforms we have shipped, I built the student-assistant hiring system end-to-end myself, prototype to production. Underneath all of that, much of the work has been organisational: bringing autonomous, cross-functional product teams with their own product owners, OKRs, and Scrum into central IT, where those practices were not previously established.

At Smart Reporting — a Munich medical software company whose structured reporting platform is used by more than 10,000 physicians in over 90 countries — I grew the engineering organisation from 20 to 35 across five domain-aligned teams and moved the product onto a microservices platform under ISO 13485. We won a multi-million-euro contract with Siemens Healthineers and I ran the technical partnerships with them and GE Healthcare.

Mathematics PhD, TUM. Hands-on in Python, TypeScript, and Rust.