I embed. I don't advise.
Slack, Jira, incident calls. I work where the decisions happen. The only way to understand a platform is from inside it. Most engagements start with a week of just listening.
Embedded in engineering teams at Orcrist, E.ON, Allianz, Volkswagen, Bundesdruckerei, Nelly Solutions, and Telefónica. I take over backlog, discovery, and operating rhythm and stay until the team runs on its own.
Most recently at Orcrist, I led a GitOps / IDP platform for law enforcement on GKE — Zero Trust security, FluxCD, policy-as-code. At E.ON, I put AI into production for 8M+ energy customers under KRITIS — 2M+ monthly LLM interactions at 92% accuracy, MLOps pipelines, agentic observability. At Allianz, I built developer self-service with compliance baked in — cloud provisioning from over a year to weeks. At Volkswagen, I built the commerce backbone for five brands — 1M+ users with live pricing and live inventory.
Before that, six years at Capgemini and Erminas, where I learned the fundamentals: software engineering, systems design, and delivery across fintech, retail, insurance, and aerospace. I studied welding engineering, computer science, health economics, and machine learning: research at four universities across Hamburg, Copenhagen, San Diego, and the University of Federal Armed Forces. Work in enough different worlds and you know the patterns.
Slack, Jira, incident calls. I work where the decisions happen. The only way to understand a platform is from inside it. Most engagements start with a week of just listening.
GDPR, BSI, KRITIS, Gematik. I've shipped under all of them. Compliance shapes the architecture from the first design decision. Treat it as a checklist for the week before launch and it will cost you.
A project ends when the deadline does. A platform keeps running, with people depending on it long after you've moved on.
A great platform was never the real goal.
A team that can run and extend it without me is. So I leave behind operating rhythm and playbooks, not a dependency on me.
AI is part of how I think now, not just what I ship — alongside the product tools I've leaned on for years.
Ten years embedded in regulated, large-scale organisations. Different sectors, the same problems underneath: platforms that need to scale, comply, and outlast the project.
See the work →Enterprise GitOps / IDP on GKE for mission-critical law enforcement workloads. Zero Trust security, FluxCD, policy-as-code. Application teams self-serve on paved roads.
AI in production for 8M+ energy customers under KRITIS. 2M+ monthly LLM interactions at 92% accuracy. Consolidated six monitoring tools into one OpenTelemetry platform.
Getting a cloud environment took over a year. Built developer self-service with compliance baked in. Same thing now takes weeks.
Five brands, five ordering systems, no shared inventory. Built the commerce backbone that unified them. 1M+ users see live pricing and live inventory.
Every ministry was building its own data platform from scratch. Designed one sovereign platform they all share. Production-ready v2.0.
PVS connectors, embedded finance, and AI layer for 1,200+ practices and 2M+ patients. Launched Italy, made Spain ready.
Customer data scattered across nine touchpoints. Unified with Adobe Real-Time CDP and launched AI-driven lifecycle journeys.
I'd be happy to talk. Book a 30-minute call and tell me what you're working on.