Florian
Rosenberg
CTO & CIO @ Esko
Builder and technology executive turning AI, cloud, and platform strategy into measurable business outcomes.
About
Currently, I'm the CTO & CIO at Esko (part of Veralto), a global leader in packaging software solutions serving CPG and pharmaceutical industries. I lead technology strategy across cloud and AI initiatives, direct engineering and IT for 460+ FTEs across Europe, India, and the US, and champion the adoption of modern development practices across the organization's software portfolio.
Before Esko, I was the CTO at Crayon, where I also served as VP for Data & AI and built the AI Center of Excellence. Before that, I held various leadership positions at IBM in Vienna and New York and CSIRO/Data61 in Australia, working on AI/ML services, Cloud, and DevOps tooling that resulted in a number of patents.
I completed my PhD in June 2009 at TU Wien, where I was a member of the Distributed Systems Group. My focus was on service-oriented architectures — in particular how to engineer resilient applications composed of microservices, just that we did not call it microservices back then.
In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my kids, being outdoors and various kinds of sports like Taekwondo or snowboarding.
CTO & CIO @ Esko
AI/ML, Cloud, Packaging Software
PhD, TU Wien
Focus Areas
What I've spent decades working on
AI & Machine Learning
Deep learning infrastructure, ML engineering, and data science at scale. From building IBM's DLaaS to leading 100+ AI projects at Crayon.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and platform engineering. Designing scalable systems that power modern enterprises.
DevOps & Automation
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation. 11 patents in systems management and testing automation.
Distributed Systems
Microservices, service-oriented architectures, and resilient system design. PhD research and decades of practical experience.
Experience
Career journey across research and industry
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Officer
Esko (part of Veralto) · Gent, Belgium & Vienna, Austria
Leading technology strategy and vision across cloud and AI initiatives for a global leader in packaging software solutions serving CPG and pharmaceutical industries. Directing engineering and IT leadership for 460+ FTEs across Europe, India, and the United States.
- Establishing Product Architecture Board governance and comprehensive AI strategy roadmap
- Building and leading AI engineering teams, embedding AI into the product portfolio
- Championing adoption of modern development practices across the software portfolio
- Overseeing distributed teams delivering products contributing $300M+ in annual revenue
Chief Technology Officer
Crayon · Vienna, Austria & Oslo, Norway
Drove innovation and technical expertise globally in customer-first services, products and platforms, with a focus on cloud, data & AI, the modern workplace and security. Ensured data-oriented strategies to scale success worldwide.
- Global technical leadership across cloud, AI, and security
- Data-oriented strategies for worldwide scale
- Built Crayon as a top place to work for technology enthusiasts
VP Data & AI
Crayon · Vienna, Austria & Oslo, Norway
Mastermind behind Crayon's Data & AI Center of Excellence. Responsible for the technical strategy of the AI practice, technical delivery, and leading Data Science and Engineering teams. Delivered 100+ AI projects.
- Built the AI Center of Excellence from the ground up
- Led 50+ data scientists, data engineers and AI advisors
- Delivered over 100 AI projects across industries
Global Head of Engineering
AIM Software (acquired by SimCorp) · Vienna, Austria
Led the global engineering organization of 45 people across offices in Vienna, London, and New York, delivering a leading data management software for the financial services industry (buy-side). Company was acquired by SimCorp AS in 2019.
- Led 45 engineers across Vienna, London, New York, and offshore teams
- Delivered leading data management platform for buy-side financial services
- Customers included BNY Mellon, Pictet, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity
Head of Cloud
Braintribe Technologies · Vienna, Austria
Established a cloud business unit to transform the on-premises Tribefire platform to a managed service. Developed a hybrid cloud strategy and roadmap, built and led multiple development teams.
- Built cloud business unit from scratch
- Developed hybrid cloud strategy and roadmap for Tribefire platform
- Led multiple development teams through platform transformation
Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
IBM · Vienna & New York
Held various leadership positions working on AI/ML services, Cloud, and DevOps tooling. Co-created IBM Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) and contributed to cloud infrastructure automation. Resulted in 11 patents.
- Co-created IBM Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS)
- 11 patents in systems management, automation, and testing
- Originated Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL) open source project
Research Scientist
CSIRO / Data61 · Sydney, Australia
Conducted research on semantic web technologies, service-oriented architectures, and linked data. Contributed to multiple publications on web service composition and semantic annotations.
- Semantic web and linked data research
- Service-oriented architecture innovations
- Published at JIST, SOCA, and other venues
PhD Researcher
TU Wien · Vienna, Austria
Member of the Distributed Systems Group. PhD thesis on QoS-aware composition of adaptive service-oriented systems. Pioneered work on resilient applications composed of microservices before the term existed.
- PhD: QoS-Aware Composition of Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems
- 50+ publications in top venues (IEEE, ACM, Springer)
- Best Student Paper at ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2013
Open Source
Projects I've originated and contributed to
Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL)
A framework-independent training infrastructure for deep learning models on distributed servers (CPUs and GPUs). Enables training of models across multiple deep learning frameworks on Kubernetes.
View ProjectSpring Cloud Dataflow for Kubernetes
Wrote the first implementation allowing Spring Cloud Dataflow pipelines to be executed on a Kubernetes cluster, enabling cloud-native data processing workflows.
View ProjectPatents
11 patents in systems management, automation, and testing
Systems management based on semantic models and low-level runtime state
Various embodiments manage deployable computing environments. A semantic model of a computing environment is analyzed. The computing environment is deployed based on the analysis of the semantic model. The deployment includes executing one or more automation scripts. Changes in state are identified for each automation script executed during deployment. The semantic model is updated based on the changes in state identified for each automation script.
Tamar Eilam, Fabio A. Oliveira, Florian Rosenberg
Implicit coordination for deployment of computing systems using a data sharing service
Various embodiments manage deployable computing environments. A system model of a computing environment that includes a set of computing resources is analyzed. Dependency information is generated for each computing node based on the system model. An executable coordination operation is added to each configuration operation to automatically coordinate execution across computing nodes.
Hoi Y. Chan, Thomas Gschwind, Michael H. Kalantar, Lakshminaraya Renganarayana, Florian Rosenberg
Implicit coordination for deployment of computing systems using a data sharing service
Various embodiments manage deployable computing environments. A system model of a computing environment that includes a set of computing resources is analyzed. Dependency information is generated for each computing node. An executable coordination operation automatically coordinates execution of configuration operations on the computing node.
Hoi Y. Chan, Thomas Gschwind, Michael H. Kalantar, Lakshminaraya Renganarayana, Florian Rosenberg
Publications
56 peer-reviewed publications across top venues
CUP: A Formalism for Expressing Cloud Usage Patterns for Experts and Non-Experts
A. Milenkoski, A. Iosup, S. Kounev, K. Sachs, D. E. Mularz, J. A. Curtiss, J. Ding, F. Rosenberg, P. Rygielski
IBM Deep Learning Service
B. Bhattacharjee, S. Boag, C. Doshi, P. Dube, B. Herta, V. Ishakian, K. R. Jayaram, Rania Khalaf, A. Krishna, Y. B. Li, V. Muthusamy, R. Puri, Y. Ren, F. Rosenberg, S. R. Seelam, Y. Wang, J. M. Zhang, L. Zhang
Weaver: Language and runtime for software defined environments
M. H. Kalantar, F. Rosenberg, J. Doran, T. Eilam, M. Elder, F. Oliveira, E. C. Snible, T. Roth
Domain-Specific Service Selection for Composite Services
O. Moser, F. Rosenberg, S. Dustdar
Identifying Influential Factors of Business Process Performance Using Dependency Analysis
B. Wetzstein, P. Leitner, F. Rosenberg, S. Dustdar, F. Leymann
Full listings also available on DBLP and Google Scholar.
Blog
Writing and thoughts
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