After finishing his computer science studies with focus on information systems in 2011, Volker started to work on backend systems at InnoGames based in Hamburg, Germany where he has worked with data-intensive and scalable applications through his corporate career. Nowadays he is working as a Technical Product Lead, managing the team around the data infrastructure of the company. With around 200 million registered players, InnoGames is one of the worldwide leading developers and publishers of online games. Currently, more than 400 people from 30 nations are working in the Hamburg-based headquarters. Together with his data engineering team he build up a data pipeline and platform based on technologies such as Hadoop, Flink, Kafka and Spark. It processes more than a billion gameplay events per day in order to generate a better gaming experience.