Manuel is the Product Owner of the Global Integration Platform at HDI Global SE. He sold his first software at the age of thirteen and has been developing software ever since. After graduating, he joined the financial industry in API management and eventually moved to HDI Global SE to merge a service bus, API management and an event broker into an integration platform for the cloud division. In addition to his work at HDI Global SE, he is co-founder of a small company in the education software sector and freelance writer for heise.de and its magazines.