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 E.ON, Allianz, Volkswagen, Bundesdruckerei, Nelly Solutions, and Telefonica. I take over backlog, discovery, and operating rhythm and stay until the team runs on its own.
At E.ON, I consolidated six monitoring tools into one OpenTelemetry platform. At Allianz, I built developer self-service with built-in compliance — cloud provisioning went from over a year to weeks. At Volkswagen, I built the commerce backbone for five brands — 1M+ users with real-time 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 isn't a gate at the end. It's a design constraint from day one.
project ends with the deadline. A platform has users who depend on it long after.
The goal isn't a great platform.
I install operational playbooks.
Six monitoring tools, zero shared language for incidents. Built one OpenTelemetry platform that replaced them all. New domains now onboard in days, not months.
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 now see real prices and real stock.
Every ministry was building its own data platform from scratch. Designed one sovereign platform they all share. Production-ready v2.0.
PVS connectors broke unpredictably. Payments reconciled manually. Built versioned APIs and embedded payments across markets.
Customer data scattered across nine touchpoints. Unified with Adobe Real-Time CDP and launched lifecycle journeys.
I'd be happy to talk. Book a 30-minute call and tell me what you're working on.