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Andra Ehlert

VP Cloud Apps & Data Modernization — Europe · Zürich, Switzerland

Summary

Over a decade at NTT holding diverse leadership positions in Services, Pre-Sales, and Technical Development at local, regional, and global levels. Conference speaker and 5× award winner — established DevOps teams in Germany, built Automation Practices across Europe, and led cloud-native transformations for enterprise clients. Expertise spans agile programming, Site Reliability Engineering, network automation, and cloud strategy.

Experience

NTT DATA Zürich, Switzerland
VP Cloud Apps & Data Modernization — Europe Aug 2024 – Present
Global VP Technical Transformation Nov 2020 – Aug 2024
Global Head of Technical Development Oct 2019 – Nov 2020
Dimension Data Frankfurt, Germany
Automation & DevOps European Practice Lead Apr 2019 – Oct 2019
Technical Team Lead — Automation & AppDev Nov 2017 – Mar 2019
NetDevOps Design Engineer Jan 2017 – Nov 2017
System Engineer Oct 2015 – Dec 2016
Technology Associate Oct 2014 – Sep 2015
CREATIS & McGill University France / Canada
R&D Cloud Engineer — Master Thesis Feb 2014 – Jun 2014
CNS Communications
Junior Network Consultant — Cloud Analysis Jul 2013 – Dec 2013

Education

INSA Lyon
M.Sc. Telecommunications, Services & Computer Science 2009 – 2014
IE Business School
MBA — Business Administration 2017 – 2018
Luleå University of Technology
Exchange — Computer Science 2012 – 2013

Certifications

VMware Certified Professional — Datacenter VirtualizationVMware Certified Professional 6 — Network Virtualization

Skills

Cloud StrategyDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringNetwork AutomationAgile ProgrammingChange ManagementBusiness Process Improvement

Languages

German Native English Native French Native Romanian Native Spanish Full Professional Swedish Elementary