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Login: felix Name: Felix Robin Gießmann
Directory: /home/felix Shell: /bin/zsh
Office: Bochum, DE Home: Wuppertal, DE
Second home: New Delhi, IN Status: Overseas Citizen of India
Since: 1994 Uptime: sufficient
Plan:
Translate strategy into procedures that actually run,
then build the systems the procedures turn out to need.
Currently doing this across two countries at once.
I am a manager for digital processes and IT governance at a German–Indian management consultancy, a political scientist by training, and an enthusiastic amateur in roughly nine other directions. I have been working on the Wuppertal–India axis for over ten years — academically, professionally, and at home.
What I actually do
Day job. I own IT governance, information security and the systems landscape for a consultancy of about a hundred people spread across Germany and India, reporting to three managing directors and the COO. In practice that means identity and access governance, cross-border data protection between two very different legal regimes, and a steady campaign of automating things that should never have been done by hand.
The other half. Vendor selection procedures with defensible decision trails. Controlling and KPI systems assembled out of data sources that were never meant to speak to each other. NIS2 and information security advice for municipal utilities in the KRITIS space. Occasionally, AI-assisted and agentic workflows that quietly made several planned hires unnecessary.
Elsewhere on this server
- Curriculum Vitae — the full register: positions, education, competencies.
- Personal — Linux, dosa, guests, and the state of my last.fm.
- Contact — email, PGP fingerprint, and how to encrypt to me.
- Colophon — how this page is made, for the three of you who asked.
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Wuppertal ──────── Bochum ──────── Heidelberg ──────── New Delhi 1994 $DAYJOB M.A. 2024 2017, 2023–
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