Stephan Ilaender has been General Manager Platform Products & Support at STACKIT since January 2023 and has previously held various management and C-level positions. In his more than 20 years of professional experience, Ilaender can boast the successful management and implementation of customized projects for large companies as well as the development of complex solutions for highly available online stores. He and his teams support customers in transforming their IT infrastructures in line with digitalization. The development of a multi-cloud strategy to establish digital sovereignty for customer workloads is as much a part of his tasks as the implementation of modern technologies for development and deployment based on Kubernetes in a federated microservice architecture. Stephan Ilaender sees it as his task to support customers in the gradual transition of workloads to scalable cloud product platforms and thus achieve digital sovereignty as well as economic savings.