Rodrigue Schaefer joined Zalando in 2014 as Head of Engineering. In his time with the company he has helped to build the Brand Solutions department from scratch and was one of the architects of Radical Agility: the management strategy adopted by Zalando's tech team in early 2015 to foster autonomy, mastery and purpose team-wide.

Since April 2015 he has been responsible for guiding the transformation of Zalando's customer-facing fashion store from a monolith into a microservices architecture. Enabling innovation through people and technologies is at the heart of his work.