IT Consultant

• Design workshop curricula for software engineers and technical leads on AI-enabled engineering and on adopting AI tools effectively.
• Technical talk, 17th TestIstanbul Conference, October 2026: "What If We Tested the Tester?", on how AI amplifies the tester's judgement, blind spots included.
• Built and run the company website and online course platform (WordPress, PHP, JavaScript) with Claude Code and Cursor, plus a Playwright test suite that checks the live site's pages, links and sign-up flow.
• Built Write Check, a Chrome extension backed by a local Node.js service that scores any text box for clarity and AI-sounding phrasing, falling back across Gemini, Kimi, GPT and OpenRouter when a provider fails.
• Built a Python video pipeline that turns my online course into short narrated videos: script, text-to-speech, captions and rendering, with a review gate before each episode.
• Work under a written protocol for AI coding agents (CLAUDE.md): a definition of done written as checks before the work starts, tests that fail before they pass, and independent reviewer agents that check each claim of the coder agents against its source.
• Author of The Maintenance Trap (Level Up newsletter, May 2026), on developer productivity: why high-performing engineers get pulled into maintenance work and how to make the ROI case for fixing it.

• Management of security and governance initiatives
• Development of SAP BTP as an innovation platform
• Trusted advisor to executive management

• Booking and payment platform for event organizers, live with paying customers, bootstrapped
• Product owner from day one: roadmap, prioritization, requirements from customer feedback, releases
• AI-native delivery: development largely with Claude Code, custom skills, agents and MCP servers, plus a pipeline that fixes production errors and submits the fix for review
• LLM features in production, e.g. extracting event data from flyers and texts
• Architecture and operations: Laravel, Livewire, MariaDB, Stripe Connect with payouts to organizers, PayPal, invoicing with DATEV export, around 1,200 PHPUnit test classes, CI with automated deployment

• Challenge: Assess the feasibility of voice support for patient intake, pre-qualification, routing and documentation.
• Action: Designed the speech recognition, agent control, documentation and integration architecture; assessed latency, language quality, privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Result: Built a working multilingual proof of concept in three days, demonstrating voice interaction, triage, suspected diagnosis and AI-supported documentation. This made the next technical and clinical review points visible. No production deployment is documented.

Consulting on Cyber Security, Governance, Risk Management, audits, Cloud Security, and compliance in regulated environments.

Fuel cell system – Technical feasibility study

Assessment of converting a passenger car fuel cell system for alternative applications, especially stationary ones. Analysis of control units, sensors, actuators, HV and hydrogen components, and technical feasibility.

Long-term technical support for the store for ten years, remotely.

• Integration of the Tyrolean ERP system MGM with Magento 2
• Migration of the store from Luma to Hyvä

Executive advisory for healthcare organizations focused on enterprise transformation, healthcare modernization, digital health strategy, AI strategy, enterprise ICT transformation and strategic EHR modernization.

• Advise healthcare organizations in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium on EHR strategy, enterprise transformation, digital health, AI and target operating models.
• Lead EHR platform selection and evaluation as well as RFI/RFP processes; define governance, vendor-assessment and decision methodologies.
• Develop EHR feasibility studies, transformation roadmaps, executive business cases, cost-benefit analyses and value-realization assessments.
• Assess Epic and alternative EHR platforms for strategic fit, operational excellence, AI enablement, interoperability, governance and long-term value.
• Design AI strategy scenarios and governance models and facilitate executive workshops on AI, data governance, operational excellence and future healthcare operating models.

SIEM/SOC Wazuh Implementation

Logistics

Wazuh | OpenSearch | Use Cases | Dashboards | Training

• Advised and provided technical support for the implementation of Wazuh as a SIEM solution
• Prepared and coordinated with teams involved in firewall, network, and IT operations
• Installed and configured Wazuh on the designated server infrastructure
• Developed security-related use cases and dashboards for centralized monitoring
• Delivered employee training on using and analyzing data from the SIEM solution

Consulting at the intersection of technology/digitalization and finance/portfolio management for companies, entrepreneurs and investors.

• AI & automation consulting, digital scaling, efficiency and revenue optimization
• Portfolio consulting & structured portfolio building across multiple asset classes
• Real estate/land strategy for long-term portfolio development
• Accounting & financial processes: setup, optimization, reporting and workflow design

• Lead the Solution Delivery Workstream
• Serve as IT Operations Manager ad interim
• Define, implement, and continuously optimize the Target Operating Model
• Design and implement incident and problem management processes
• Develop, maintain, and execute business continuity and disaster recovery plans, including DR testing
• Ensure system availability, performance, scalability, and compliance with SLAs
• Liaise between business stakeholders, SAP Basis teams, managed service providers, and cloud vendors
• Oversee incident, change, and problem management processes in line with ITIL best practices
• Lead service reviews and vendor performance evaluations
• Coordinate patching, upgrades, and enhancement cycles with SAP AG and application operations teams
• Monitor system health, performance, and security using SAP for Me
• Collaborate with IT security, infrastructure, and network teams to ensure system integrity
• Create, track, and manage project-related firewall requests
• Develop, coordinate, and deliver cutover activities for targeted system lines

System Transformation Audit

Supporting a project-related IT audit of a system transformation within the financial services sector, focusing on controls associated with different types of system migrations. The work involves reviewing migration-specific documentation and supporting evidence to assess whether the controls for each migration type are adequately evidenced and sufficient to address the associated migration risks. Particular emphasis is placed on the adequacy of control measures, the reliability of supporting evidence, and safeguards relating to data integrity and migration-related risks.

Team Size: 2 project managers, 1 delivery manager, 2 senior consultants

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Reviewing documentation and supporting evidence for different types of system migrations.
• Assessing migration-specific control procedures and evaluating whether the controls are appropriate and sufficient to address the associated risks.
• Evaluating the adequacy and completeness of evidence provided to demonstrate that migration controls have been performed as intended.
• Reviewing relevant control measures designed to safeguard data completeness, accuracy, and integrity during migration, where applicable.
• Identifying potential control gaps, insufficient evidence, and areas requiring further clarification or additional audit procedures.
• Assessing whether the documented migration approach and associated controls adequately address the risks arising from the respective migration type.
• Coordinating with relevant project stakeholders to clarify migration procedures, obtain supporting documentation, and follow up on open audit questions.
• Documenting audit procedures, evidence reviewed, control assessments, and observations in accordance with the engagement's audit methodology.

Audit Standards, Methodologies and Regulatory Frameworks: Migration Controls Assessment, Migration Risk Assessment, Evidence Review, Control Testing, IT Audit Documentation.

Areas of Expertise: System Transformation, System Migration Controls, Migration Risk Assessment, Control Evaluation, Evidence Assessment.

Main Results & Achievements:

• Contributing to the assessment of migration controls and the identification of potential control gaps.
• Identifying evidence deficiencies and areas requiring further clarification.
• Documenting audit observations and supporting the evaluation of migration-related risks and control effectiveness.

• NIS2/IT-OT infrastructure project for network and firewall: PoC, roll-out, and blueprint
• Coordination of IT, OT/operations, information security, business units, and external suppliers
• Risk and escalation management
• Direct evidence of security, multi-vendor delivery, and operational context.

• Technical product ownership for a global customer portal in the indoor climate sector, including API integrations, backend connectivity, and expansion of digital customer services
• Developed the solution architecture and AI use cases for a claims management platform, integrating it into the enterprise architecture for a leading insurance company
• Developed the target operating model and led the implementation of the global investment platform for an investment bank
• Developed the target operating model and platform strategy for a new digital health platform for a health insurance company
• Developed the platform strategy, defined use cases, and built the data architecture for a digital health platform of a health insurance company