Senior engineer. Proven leader.

SAP security, ABAP architecture
and enterprise software.

Currently Senior Software Engineer at Onapsis Europe GmbH.

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.

Leadership
Former Engineering Manager and Development Lead
Based in
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Evidence, not adjectives.

Selected examples across people leadership, architecture, delivery, and product modernization.

International engineering leadership

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.

Easier upgrades across SAP landscapes

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.

Cross-product architecture

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.

Repeatable ABAP releases

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.

SAP Premium Certification

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,
role by role.

Progression across hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and formal people management.

Senior Software Engineer

January 2024–present

Onapsis Europe GmbH

  • Serve as a go-to advisor and reviewer for ABAP architecture, clean-core strategy, framework design, code quality, testability, add-on architecture, refactoring, and modernization.
  • Own the SAP Premium Certification workstream for the team’s ABAP product, translating requirements into technical changes and guiding delivery across on-premises and cloud deployment models.
  • Take on special projects requiring deeper analysis, architecture, or prototyping, including practical use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

Development Lead / Engineering Manager

Acquired by Onapsis in June 2019

July 2014–December 2023

Virtual Forge

  • Led engineering for an enterprise SAP custom-code security analysis platform, including modernization of a mature on-premises product architecture.
  • Managed up to five concurrent direct reports and led a cross-functional product team of approximately seven to ten ABAP, Java, and QA engineers across Germany, Romania, and Argentina.
  • Guided career development, performance reviews, promotion input, coaching, recruiting interviews, planning, estimation, and product-management coordination.
  • Delivered in-person product training in Boston to the company’s entire global support team, bringing together colleagues from the United States, Spain, and Germany to strengthen shared product knowledge across regions and time zones.
  • Moderated cross-product architecture discussions and remained technically involved through architecture and code reviews.
  • Turned infrequent, manually intensive ABAP delivery work into a documented and repeatable release process.

Software engineering and technical leadership

July 2008–June 2014

Accenture Technology Solutions / Accenture GmbH

Role progression:

  • Specialist — September 2013–June 2014
  • Team Lead — September 2012–August 2013
  • Senior Analyst — September 2010–August 2012
  • Analyst — September 2009–August 2010
  • Software Developer / Associate — July 2008–August 2009

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.

Production software before and during university

2001–2008

Earlier experience

  • Diploma thesis placement, Cirquent GmbH / NTT Data Group — September 2007–February 2008
  • Software engineering internship, Virtual Identity AG — March–September 2005
  • Software engineering internship, doubleSlash Net-Business GmbH — September 2004–February 2005

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.

SAP expertise.

ABAP architecture, engineering leadership, and dependable delivery across enterprise products.

Engineering leadership

People, delivery, and organizational clarity.

  • Engineering management
  • Career development and performance management
  • Coaching and technical mentorship
  • International and distributed product teams
  • Cross-functional planning and delivery coordination
  • Engineering guidelines and repeatable processes
  • Knowledge transfer and team enablement

SAP and architecture

Deep technical work with an enterprise-wide view.

  • SAP and ABAP solution architecture
  • Clean-core strategy
  • ABAP Objects and framework design
  • SAP add-on architecture
  • RFC and REST integration
  • Enterprise product architecture
  • Architecture and code reviews

Quality and modernization

Making established systems easier to evolve.

  • Code quality and testability
  • Refactoring and modernization
  • Architecture modernization of established products
  • ABAP release engineering
  • Roadmap estimation and technical planning
  • Cross-product interface and terminology consistency

Emerging practice

Practical AI use across the engineering lifecycle.

  • AI-assisted implementation and prototyping
  • Architectural exploration
  • Options and trade-off analysis
  • Engineering decision support

International foundation.

German and French are native languages. English is certified at Cambridge C1 Advanced.

Education

Diplom-Ingenieur (FH), Medieninformatik

Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart

Awarded 14 March 2008 · Final grade 1.6

BSc (Hons), Web Design & Development

University of Abertay Dundee

Awarded 5 July 2007 · Upper Second-Class Honours

Selected credentials

Veracode Verified Continuous Security Champion

Learner Level 3 · 6 August 2025

Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM

Scholarship-supported study at Abertay · 2006/2007

Languages

German
Native
French
Native
English
Cambridge C1 Advanced, Grade B · 18 July 2026

Outside the work.

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.

Technical exploration, music, family, and deliberate personal growth all inform how I think and work.

Nicolas Lanquetin
Senior Software Engineer and proven engineering leader

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Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany