Europe's largest ticketing platform processing 250M tickets annually across 20+ countries
CTS EVENTIM operates a continental ticketing and live-entertainment infrastructure handling approximately 250 million transactions per year across physical, online, and mobile channels. The tech stack—Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, and emerging GCP/BigQuery/Airflow adoption—reflects a shift from monolithic ticketing systems toward event-streaming and data-pipeline architecture. Active projects in AI architecture, real-time data pipelines, and CDP integration, paired with engineering-led hiring velocity, signal a major modernization effort to replace manual processes and unlock data-driven personalization across their event ecosystem.
Notable leadership hires: Business Lead
CTS EVENTIM is a publicly listed ticketing and live-entertainment operator headquartered in Bremen, Germany. The group operates multiple online ticketing portals (eventim.de, oeticket.com, ticketcorner.ch, ticketone.it, entradas.com) across more than 20 countries, and also owns and promotes major European festivals and concert venues including Rock am Ring, the Kölner LANXESS Arena, and the EVENTIM Apollo in London. Revenue in 2022 exceeded €1.9 billion. The company is structured around ticketing distribution (B2C/B2B), live-event promotion, and venue operations, with infrastructure spanning containerized microservices, on-premise storage, and cloud migration to GCP.
Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Grafana, Terraform, TypeScript/JavaScript, and AWS. They are actively adopting GCP, BigQuery, Apache Airflow, and dbt for data pipeline modernization.
Real-time data pipelines, AI/ML solution architecture, enterprise-wide AI roadmap development, integration of external APIs, campaign-activation data models, and self-service infrastructure tooling to accelerate manual process elimination and improve conversion.
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