Samuel Mohr
Product Owner · F1 Experience · Researcher
Email: contact [at] samuel-mohr [dot] de
About
I'm Samuel Mohr, a product owner at Digitec Financial Technologies and Services. After dedicating several years to academia, I now lead agile software projects in the financial tech sector.
I’m passionate about solving real-world challenges and delivering creative, user-centric solutions—bridging theory and practice through insights from Formula 1 simulation, deep expertise in statistics and optimisation, and strong programming skills. My international research background has shaped a global perspective and a collaborative, results-driven mindset.
Work Experience
Product Owner
Responsibilities:
- Product Owner and Business Analyst for the established FX pricing engine D3
- Responsible for one of three development teams: managing the backlog, prioritising tasks, …
- Product management for some modules: consulting with FX trading desks and their IT departments to deliver focused solutions
Junior Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Contribution to the fork of PSOPT for lap simulations: development and maintenance of time-critical C++ code
- Benchmarking of non-linear solvers, mathematical consultancy
- Establishing Docker for simulations on the high performance cluster
Postdoc
Research:
- Extremal combinatorics: quarirandomness, combinatorial limits
- Computer assisted mathematical proofs: mixed integer optimisation, flag algebras and semidefinite programming
Qualifications
Product Management Certificate
2+2 days intensive product management training, featuring practical exercises and case studies addressing current challenges in my role as Product Owner.
Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Training and assessment ensuring solid competence in information security principles.
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics
Thesis: Rooted structures in graphs : a project on Hadwiger's conjecture, rooted minors, and Tutte cycles.
B.Sc and M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics
Area of specialisation: stochastics, optimisation (classes in numerical mathematics of stochastical systems, numerical mathematics partial differential equations, finite elements method, …)
Programming Languages
I used Python and C++ in my research to combine rapid development with high performance. In my role as a software project coordinator, I rely on Python and PowerShell for scripting and automation. This is a list of programming languages I’ve used across projects and roles:
