Nicolas Lanquetin
Engineering leader and senior software engineer combining deep SAP and ABAP expertise with experience leading international product teams, modernizing enterprise security products, and turning complex technical work into repeatable delivery.
Deep technical judgment.
Calm engineering leadership.
Profile
I combine engineering leadership with deep technical judgment in SAP security, ABAP architecture, and enterprise product development.
My experience spans formal people management, international product delivery, cross-product architecture, and hands-on senior engineering. I work best where complex technical constraints, product decisions, and team development need to move forward together.
Selected impact
Selected examples spanning team leadership, architecture, delivery, and product modernization.
Up to 5 direct reports · 7–10-person product team · 3 countries
Managed career development, performance reviews, promotion input, coaching, recruiting interviews, roadmap coordination, and delivery planning across Germany, Romania, and Argentina.
Architecture modernization
Helped redesign a production SAP code-security product around a more centralized architecture, substantially reducing the upgrade burden for customers operating multiple development systems.
EMEA · ABAP, Java, and integrations
Moderated an architecture forum that clarified component boundaries, REST and RFC interfaces, terminology, documentation, and trade-offs across multiple products and teams. Developed reusable high-level models of cross-product dependencies so technical and nontechnical audiences could understand how their work fit into the wider ecosystem.
Approximately twice-yearly releases
Created and refined a playbook for a manually intensive on-premises delivery process, documenting quality checks, packaging, naming, documentation, and responsibilities so release owners could work consistently.
On-premises · private cloud · public cloud
Owned the certification workstream for the team’s ABAP product, translating requirements into technical changes, defining the implementation plan, guiding delivery, and clarifying deployment strategies.
Career progression
Onapsis Europe GmbH
Virtual Forge
Acquired by Onapsis in June 2019
Accenture Technology Solutions / Accenture GmbH
Role progression:
Work included SAP architecture and technical concepts, offshore collaboration, development review and acceptance, release readiness, delivery processes, client requirements, mentoring, and internal innovation. I also delivered a two-week, in-person onboarding program for three Manila-based engineers and additional in-person training for a Bratislava-based engineering team.
Earlier experience
Before and during university, I also built web systems used by organizations and customers: a non-profit website that evolved from static HTML to a custom CMS, an online wine shop adapted from an open-source e-commerce framework, and an automotive-parts shop with substantial custom development for criteria-based product selection.
Expertise
People, delivery, and organizational clarity.
Deep technical work with an enterprise-wide view.
Making established systems easier to evolve.
Practical AI use across the engineering lifecycle.
Education and perspective
German and French are native languages; English is certified at Cambridge C1 Advanced.
Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart
Awarded 14 March 2008 · Final grade 1.6
University of Abertay Dundee
Awarded 5 July 2007 · Upper Second-Class Honours
Learner Level 3 · 6 August 2025
Scholarship-supported study at Abertay · 2006/2007
Beyond the role
Outside work, I enjoy exploring AI through personal software projects and creating music through piano, improvisation, and composition. I value time with my family and the deliberate work of becoming a better husband, father, and person.
