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Case Study

Monday, December 01

09:30 AM - 09:55 AM

Live in Berlin

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CARIAD operates and develops on the biggest car cloud backends in the world. With the Volkswagen Group, the company has successfully enhanced service capabilities across over six diverse car platforms, showcasing our versatility and commitment to innovation in the automotive industry. Over 30 million vehicles are registered on our platform, underscoring our services’ extensive reach and impact. The platform, which has been operating since 2011, is continuously developed, and maintained by 14 dedicated DevOps teams, leveraging the infrastructure of AWS to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. Serving over 300 million requests per day, the platform demonstrates exceptional capacity and efficiency. This presentation will delve into the strategic approaches employed to integrate these platforms, highlighting key achievements and the challenges we overcame. It will also explore specific cases of complexity and provide an in-depth analysis of the platform’s scalability, which ranks among the largest worldwide. Additionally, the session will share the lessons learned throughout this journey and encourage a dialogue on how the design of Software-Defined Vehicles can benefit from these insights.

In this presentation, you will gain valuable knowledge on:

  • How to maintain standards of quality and customer satisfaction across a broad spectrum of products
  • How a multi-platform strategy for refactoring legacy architectures in SDV transitions is driving growth and setting new benchmarks in the automotive sector
  • Ways to integrate emerging technologies within existing automotive systems
  • Alignment of agile development with evolving architectural demands
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Speaker

Dr. Benedikt Eberhardinger

Senior Software Architect, CARIAD – A Volkswagen Group Company

With extensive experience in software architecture and engineering, I currently serve as a Senior Software Architect at CARIAD, where I contribute to transforming automotive mobility by delivering premium cloud solutions for over 30 million Volkswagen Group customers. My role involves analyzing and refining system architectures, supporting development teams, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of our cloud platform, which handles over 300 million requests daily.
Previously, I worked at Ansys, where I managed the development of the Ansys Autonomy Product for L3 autonomous cars, leading a high-performance team and advocating for modern, agile software development practices. My technical expertise includes Python, NoSQL, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Cloud.

At MHP – A Porsche Company, I focused on machine learning and optimization to enhance customer experience, designing and deploying big data services and analytic dashboards. My academic background includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universität Augsburg, where I researched multi-agent systems and co-led a DFG-funded project.

The Pop in Your Job:
I am driven by the challenge of integrating cutting-edge technologies to deliver premium cloud solutions for over 30 million Volkswagen Group customers. My passion lies in solving complex problems and collaborating with talented teams to push the boundaries of automotive innovation.

Company

CARIAD – A Volkswagen Group Company

We are an automotive software and technology company that bundles together Volkswagen Group's software competencies and further expands them, building upon a heritage of bringing automotive innovation to everyone. Established in 2020, over 6,000 developers, engineers and designers worldwide unify their knowledge at CARIAD. Their mission: transforming cars into software-defined vehicles that seamlessly integrate the automotive experience into our digital life, turning the Volkswagen Group into a software-driven mobility provider.

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