Matthias Cullmann

AI use cases, from idea to production. Baloise AI Concierge (vehicle counter offers) - first prize, Swiss Insurance Innovation Award 2025, generating 30 offers per day.

Latest release: broker mandate recognition from unstructured email - PDFs, scans, nested attachments (eml, msg, zip), even handwritten notes, often several cases per message - 600+ mandate creations and updates in the first 10 working days.

Evaluation, prototyping and implementation support of AI platform, tools and technologies - Baloise GPT, MS Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, internal OpenAI services.

Trained and coached teams on AI tools and best practices - several hundreds participants.

Engineering and user community management: organized promptathons.

Defined and implemented strategic journey to agile working across oneIT ( ~1000 employees) along the dimensions of automation, education and teamwork.

Member of the Group CTO's leadership team; promoted to member of the Direktion (executive level) in 2022.

Coached the five Governance Guilds with over 60 members from across the group.

Training for >400 employees provided by the guild.

Project lead for virtual machine automation: reduced lead time from weeks to hours.

Defined the vision for the evolution of the software engineering department.

Launched DevOps and continuous deployment initiatives.

Launched insurance knowledge improvement program for developers.

Management of tools and processes of the competence center with 85 engineers.

Reinforcement of agile culture: Open Friday, open source.

Definition and implementation of the technology stack.

Motivation and knowledge management of the Java community of 40 engineers.

Organisation of internal and external events: Java Lightning, Java User Group CH, code camp, trainings.

Job interviews with all engineers. IT project lead

• Optimisation of the build and deploy infrastructure
• Consolidation of the JEE server landscape

Developer on the SOA middleware and the partner system.

Introduced software engineering KPI and test driven development.

Launched Baloise Open Source.

Reduced JEE server versions by 50% to 2 per product and replaced CVS with git.

Development of a client-server 3D tank model viewer with integrated fuel analysis from scratch.

Research on 3D ergonomics and web architecture for scientific computing.

Coordination of the Java centre of excellence.

Environment: Java 3D, Eclipse RCP, JEE, WebSphere, Hibernate, SSO, Java web start, Maven2

Leading a team of 45 engineers in embedded and application software projects. Technical coordination, tools, process, recruitment, delivery, motivation, sales support.

Team grew from 20 to 45. Harmonization of tools and processes. Full transparency for the customer. CMMI level 5 and DO-178B audits. Knowledge transfer to the Indian organisation.

Development of a data base for structure test data

• J2EE, ANT, JavaScript development
• Way of working, R&D, Eclipse, JUnit, Cruise Control, WebTest, JMeter

In one cycle (150 man days)

• reduced spent budget from 250% to 99%
• number of bugs in customer acceptance divided by four
• performance improved by x10 to x100
• application in production with > 100 users

Management of a project in trouble in a transnational environment (UK, Germany, France). 800 classes, 70k lines of code

Environment: J2EE, Oracle, Borland Enterprise Server, CMP, TOMCAT, JSP, SiteMinder, LDAP, Velocity, AJAX (JavaScript), CVS

Technical design and development of the home exchange site Swapeo.

• Audit
• Data base modelling
• Design and development

Website running and profitable since its creation without major maintenance. 5K – 10k users.

Environment: PHP, MySQL.