01
Engineering leadership & transformation
Building organizations, developing leaders and turning strategic intent into operating models that work in daily engineering practice.
Engineering · Leadership · Automotive
Turning complex organizations into teams that deliver.
I’m Christian Hausner, a senior engineering and transformation leader from Nürnberg. My work spans automotive software, international project execution, quality, organizational development and the systems that help engineering teams deliver.
I like structure without bureaucracy, measurable improvement without theatre, and giving capable people the context and trust they need to succeed.
Profile
Where I create value
My work sits at the intersection of engineering, organization and execution. These are the four themes that best describe the perspective I bring to leadership and transformation.
02
Execution & delivery
Connecting project leadership, product ownership, requirements, testing and disciplined execution so teams can make reliable commitments and deliver.
03
Quality, processes & compliance
Combining independent quality assurance and audits with pragmatic process governance, meaningful KPIs and Automotive SPICE-oriented improvement.
04
Capability & shared services
Developing specialist capabilities and services—from quality engineering and cybersecurity to functional safety, data intelligence and learning.
Impact
A few numbers tell the story quickly.
Numbers are not the whole profile, but they are useful shorthand for the scale and variety of work I have experienced.
7M+vehicles with infotainment software I helped release as project manager
20+years working across software, projects, quality and engineering leadership
250+people in the largest international project organization I worked with
3continents across distributed teams and customer collaboration
200+recipes in my personal cookbook — continuous improvement applies there, too
Why the work matters
The software I helped bring to the road could save your life.
Automotive software becomes very real when it reaches millions of vehicles — especially when functions such as emergency assistance have to work when they are needed most.
Experience
From software and project delivery to company-wide engineering leadership.
Rather than reproduce my CV, this is the short version: the transitions that progressively expanded my scope from delivery to processes, quality and engineering leadership.
August 2026 — today
Head of Competence Center Engineering Advancement & Execution (EAX)
Leading the Competence Center that brings together core engineering execution roles and shared expert services across Elektrobit.
- Line management organization for Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Test Managers and Requirements Engineers.
- Shared services including Quality Engineering, Cybersecurity Management, Functional Safety, Data Intelligence and Learning.
- Connecting people development, execution capability, standards and expert support with the needs of product and project organizations.
July 2025 — July 2026
Head of Quality Management / Head of Quality
Expanded my existing Processes, Methods & Tools responsibility to overall Quality Management, adding responsibility for independent quality management and audits.
- Retained leadership responsibility for the Processes, Methods & Tools team and the company-wide process framework.
- Took overarching responsibility for independent quality management, quality assurance and audit activities.
- Served as Head of Quality for Elektrobit, bringing process governance and independent assurance under one leadership scope.
2021 — June 2025
Head of Processes, Methods & Tools
Led process definition and continuous improvement, with a focus on process efficiency, effectiveness, deployment, tooling and quality engineering.
- Connected process definition with sustainable adoption and day-to-day usability.
- Drove meaningful KPIs and reduced administrative effort where it did not create value.
- Supported Automotive SPICE compliance while keeping improvement practical.
2018 — 2021
Head of Customer Projects, Ford
Responsible for winning and successfully executing automotive software projects, leading project managers and software architects and supporting reliable, profitable customer business.
Detroit, USA · Expatriate assignment
Working where the customer works
Living and working in Detroit turned international collaboration from something I managed into something I experienced personally. It shaped how I think about customer proximity, cultural differences and distributed organizations.
2011 — 2018
International project leadership
Built and led distributed project organizations, coordinated teams across multiple countries, managed budgets and releases, and worked closely with US-based automotive customers.
Selected work from this period
Projects included global infotainment releases, major platform updates, emergency assistance systems, geofencing functionality and prototype / proof-of-concept work.
Depending on the phase, teams used Scrum for development and Kanban for stabilization and issue flow.
2005 — 2011
Quality, knowledge & agile foundations
Worked on company-wide processes and tooling, knowledge management, requirements management and early agile adoption—including applying Scrum outside software development.
Selected credentials
Automotive SPICE® Provisional Assessor · 2022
Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist · 2022
Certified Scrum Master · 2008
Diplom-Informatiker · FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg · 2005
How I work
Self-organization doesn’t eliminate leadership. It changes what leadership is for.
I have used agile principles in development teams, large distributed projects, support functions and leadership. The practices change; the principles travel well: create clarity, make work visible, improve the system and give capable people room to act.
Give context, then trust people
Build around motivated individuals, provide the environment and support they need, and give them room to solve problems.
Make work visible
Transparent priorities, progress and constraints create better decisions than status theatre.
Improve the system
Regular reflection matters only when it results in a concrete change to how the team works.
Processes should enable work
Compliance and structure matter, but unnecessary administration is a cost. Good processes make the right work easier.
Learn through delivery
Early, frequent working results create customer feedback and reduce the risk of solving yesterday’s problem.
Speaking & publications
Sharing what worked — and what I learned.
A selection of talks and publications on agile development, Lean and automotive software.
Agile and Automotive SPICE
Guest lecture · FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, AMOS lecture
The adventure of becoming a truly agile project
Keynote · BMW developers conference
Lean Development in der Automobilindustrie
Talk · Agile Monday Nürnberg
Lean Software Development für Automobilsoftware
Article · heise Developer · with Martin Dusch
Sind Scrum Teams lernende Teams?
Talk · Scrum Day Munich · with Kerstin Bücher
Show more talks and publications
2014: Lean software development for the automotive sector — article for the Elektrobit website, with Martin Dusch.
2009: Agiles Team-Management — Scrum im Service Team bei EB — GfWM Stammtisch Metropolregion Nürnberg, with Martin Dusch.
2008: EB Automotive 2.0 — Die Wiki Methode im Kontext der Lernenden Organisation — guest lecture at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Beyond the day job
Playground for learning & experimentation
I learn best by building.
Instead of relying only on ready-made solutions, I often build things myself to explore new technologies, architectures, development practices, testing approaches and AI-assisted workflows. The finished application is useful—but the real value is what I learn along the way.
Teleprompter
Building the presentation tool I wanted to use.
I built SpeakEasy to experiment with Angular, interaction design and browser-based media while solving a practical problem of my own. It grew into a teleprompter with visual presentation cues, remote control, recording and contextual video.
Angular · interaction design · web video · animations
Try SpeakEasy
Feedback Carousel
How far can conversational development go?
A web app for running structured one-to-one feedback rounds in workshops. I used it as an experiment in AI-driven development: application code, unit tests, UI, logo and sounds were created through conversations with GitHub Copilot rather than manually writing the implementation.
Angular · GitHub Copilot · AI-assisted development · testing
Try Feedback Carousel
Food
Continuous improvement, but edible.
What started as my personal recipe collection became an experiment in treating content as structured source. Recipes are maintained in DocBook/XML and transformed into PDF, eBook and web formats using a Java-based toolchain—along the way exploring TDD, BDD, PDF verification and Progressive Web Apps.
Java · DocBook · publishing · TDD · PWA
Explore the cookbook
Obsidian → Hugo
One source, multiple destinations.
A Node.js publishing pipeline that turns content from an Obsidian vault into Hugo-compatible Markdown. I built it partly to avoid a ready-made publishing subscription—and partly as an experiment in moving from AI-assisted autocomplete toward AI-driven implementation.
Node.js · Markdown · Hugo · Obsidian · GitHub Copilot
More experiments
Smaller ideas, same curiosity.
Speaktrum
Browser-based microphone analysis for exploring changes in voice volume and frequency spectrum.
JavaScript · Web Audio · visualization
Textorcist
A dependency-free HTML/JavaScript tool for detecting and cleaning unusual characters in AI-generated text.
JavaScript · text processing · AI workflows
Corporate Handbook from Hell
A satirical Hugo site that turns dysfunctional workplace patterns into exaggerated corporate “rules”.
Hugo · organizational reflection · humor
Deck Creator
A small browser-based experiment around creating and organizing visual decks and their source material.
Web UI · media · experimentationAnd not everything needs to be software. Cooking, a 200+ recipe collection, travel and the occasional experiment that never becomes a finished product are all part of the same pattern: curiosity first, usefulness second, learning always.