Dr. Waldemar Hummer | Curriculum

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Training

After finishing his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at University of Innsbruck in 2007, Waldemar Hummer moved to Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) where he received his Master's in Software Engineering & Internet Computing in 2009. Additionally, he holds a BSc in Business Administration (Betriebswirtschaftslehre) from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). He did his PhD and Post-Doc at the Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, where he contributes to teaching and carries out scientific research for his PhD.

Work Highlights

Waldemar Hummer has gained deep technical and management expertise in a variety of leading software engineering and research projects. Some of the most noteworthy activities are listed below:

Co-Founder, CTO/CEO @ LocalStack
Head of Engineering Zurich Insurance Switzerland
VP of Engineering at Advanon AG (Zurich, Switzerland) from early 2019 onwards
Tech lead at IBM Research AI (New York, US) from late 2017 to early 2019
Development Team Lead at Atlassian (Sydney, Australia) from early 2016 to late 2017
Research internship with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (New York, US) in summer 2012
Research stay with IBM Haifa Research Lab (Haifa, Israel) in summer 2010 for a joint research project within the S-Cube Network of Excellence
Summer internship in R&D department of Bloomberg L.P. (London, UK) in 2008
Teaching and research assistant at Distributed Systems Group, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology, January 2010 onwards
Teaching assistant for the Master's courses Advanved Internet Techniques and Distributed Systems Technologies at Vienna University of Technology from October 2008 to August 2009
Student research position at University of Innsbruck (Quality Engineering Group, Univ.Prof. Dr. Ruth Breu) in 2007
Software development projects carried out for BayernLB (Bayerische Landesbank) in 2006 and 2007

Professional Activities

Reviewer & Program Committee Memberships

An (incomplete) list of review activities:

Conferences and Workshops
1. Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Track on Software Engineering and AI. Kallithea, Greece. August 28-30, 2019
2. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD'19) Milan, Italy. July 8-13, 2019
3. 2018 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'18), Seattle, USA. June 25-30, 2018
4. 1st International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC'18), Seattle, USA. June 25-30, 2018
5. 2nd International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT'18), San Francisco, USA. July 2-7, 2018
6. 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD'18), San Francisco, USA. July 2-7, 2018
7. 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'17), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. June 25-30, 2017
8. 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'16), San Francisco, USA. June 27 - July 2, 2016
9. 1st S2 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT'16), Zhangjiajie, China, November 14-15, 2016
10. 11th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'16), Valencia, Spain. May 22-26, 2016
11. 9th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'15), Demo and Posters Track. Oslo, Norway, June 29 - July 3, 2015
12. 9th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW'15), Brussels, Belgium, June 21-26, 2015
13. 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'15), New York, USA, June 27 - July 2, 2015.
14. IEEE International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing, Krakow, Poland, June 17-19, 2015.
15. Workshop on Advanced IT Service Management, in conjunction with IEEE IM 2015, Ottawa, Canada, May 2015
16. International Workshop on DevOps-oriented Development and Systems Management (DODSM'15), in conjunction with IEEE IM 2015, Ottawa, Canada, May 2015
17. International Workshop on DSL Architecting & DSL-based Architectures (DADA'14), Vienna, Austria, August 2014
18. 9th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), Paris, France, July 20-24, 2014
19. International Conference on Computer & Communication Technology, India, September 15-17, 2011
20. ServiceWave Conference, Belgium, December 13-15, 2010
21. 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, Cyprus, December 1, 2010
Journals
Book Publishers
1. De Gruyter Publishing (versita.com Open Access)

Conference Talks & Seminars

I have attended and given talks at the following conferences and seminars:

WeAreDevelopers World Congress, Berlin, Germany. Held a tutorial/workshop on LocalStack. Slides available here
WeAreDevelopers World Congress, Berlin, Germany, June 7, 2019. Gave a talk on Pipelines for Operationalizing AI. Slides available here
IBM Programming Languages Day (PL Day '18), Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. December 10, 2018
40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18), Gothenburg, Sweden. May 27 - June 3, 2018
1st Conference on Systems for Machine Learning (SysML'18), Stanford, CA, USA, Feburary 15-16, 2018
31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'17), Long Beach, CA, USA, December 4-9, 2017
39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'17), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017
13th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC'15), Goa, India, November 16-19, 2015
IEEE 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud'14), Sydney, Australia, December 3-5, 2014 (session chair)
ÜBERALL Vienna App Congress (ÜBERALL'14), Vienna, Austria, June 25-26, 2014
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2013), Beijing, China, December 9-13, 2013
28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2013), Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, CA, USA, November 11-15, 2013
35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 18-26, 2013
Dagstuhl Seminar on Customizing Service Platforms, April 21-26, 2013, Dagstuhl, Germany
28th ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2013), March 18-22, 2013, Coimbra, Portugal
7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP 2011), October 19-21, Salamanca, Spain
10th OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM 2011), October 17-21, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
16th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2011), Innsbruck, Austria
33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011), Honolulu (Hawaii), USA
26th ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2011), Taichung, Taiwan
4th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2011), Berlin, Germany
8th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2010), Ayia Napa, Cyprus
10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010), Vienna, Austria