Gregor Ulm
About Gregor Ulm
Gregor Ulm is the Director of Software Engineering – Marketplace: Product Discovery at Delivery Hero in Berlin, Germany, with extensive experience in software engineering and leadership roles across various companies.
Director, Software Engineering at Delivery Hero
Gregor Ulm currently serves as the Director of Software Engineering for Marketplace: Product Discovery at Delivery Hero in Berlin, Germany. He is responsible for overseeing the product discovery function within the marketplace, driving innovations and improvements to enhance user experience. Before this role, he was the Director of Software Engineering for Restaurants: Ordering at Delivery Hero, where he led initiatives to improve the customer-facing restaurant ordering experience on the Pandora platform.
Experience at Global Fashion Group
Gregor Ulm worked at Global Fashion Group (GFG) as the Head of Engineering for Search and Recommendation from 2022 to 2023. During this period, he spearheaded the department focusing on search and recommendation technologies, central to enhancing customer experience in fashion e-commerce. Prior to this role, he held the position of Head of Engineering for the DataJet project for four months in 2022, contributing significantly to data engineering initiatives at GFG.
Career at Zalando
From 2020 to 2022, Gregor Ulm worked at Zalando in various roles. He started as Lead Engineer in Functional Programming, later transitioning to Engineering Lead and Engineering Manager (acting). In these capacities, he was instrumental in leading teams responsible for the Merchant Orders department, processing marketplace orders, and driving the company's technical solutions forward.
Early Career and Academic Background
Gregor Ulm has a diverse academic background with advanced degrees in both technical and scientific disciplines. He studied Philosophy and History of Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), earning a Master of Science. Additionally, he holds a Master of Science in Computer Science: Algorithms, Languages, and Logic from Chalmers University of Technology. Earlier, he attained a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering and Management from the University of Gothenburg. His early career included roles at Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre for Industrial Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology, and other notable institutions.
Key Projects and Innovations
Throughout his career, Gregor Ulm has been involved in several key projects. While at Delivery Hero, he was responsible for the customer-facing restaurants ordering experience on the Pandora platform. At Zalando, he led the Merchant Orders team in Berlin. At Klarna, he worked on the core infrastructure responsible for processing major financial transactions. During his tenure at Fraunhofer, he created a prototype platform for distributed real-time automotive big data analytics and developed the RASTER/S-RASTER clustering algorithm. His work at the European Spallation Source involved creating the PLC Factory from scratch, an essential tool for controls software development.