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• Digitalization and modernization of business-critical funding processes and customer portals*

Steering several successive digitalization and transformation initiatives – from preliminary analysis and quality gates to technical implementation and release planning.

Responsibilities

• Overall steering of multiple digitalization initiatives
• Project planning, roadmaps, and quality gates
• Coordination of business units, IT, and service providers
• Risk, schedule, and stakeholder management
• Management reporting

Project focus

• Digitalization of funding processes
• Modernization of the WIBank customer portal
• Release planning
• Electronic identification
• GAP-23 reporting

Value added

• Responsibility for the full project lifecycle and creation of transparent decision-making foundations for management and project committees.

• Ongoing support and further development.

• Spearheaded the EU market entry strategy for L3/L4 autonomous logistics vehicles, driving the technological localization and deployment of the parent company’s smart robotics portfolio.
• Orchestrated technical alignment between top-tier autonomous driving suppliers across China and Europe, translating complex client requirements into precise engineering specifications compliant with EU standards.
• Cultivated strategic joint R&D initiatives with leading European universities, research institutes, and enterprises, accelerating the transition of cutting-edge robotic concepts into commercial products.
• Directed the end-to-end architecture of intelligent warehousing solutions, guiding cross-functional teams in optimizing hardware integration for autonomous vehicles & robots, and overall system performance.
• Led the R&D of high-fidelity simulation and AI algorithms using NVIDIA Isaac Sim & Lab, establishing robust "Sim-to-Real" pipelines to train and validate dynamic path planning optimization, intelligent obstacle avoidance, and complex navigation stacks prior to physical deployment.
• Maintained hands-on oversight of the core system architecture, focusing on bottom-level performance tuning, AI model inference acceleration with TensorRT/ONNX Runtime, and sensor integration.

• Consulting, design, analysis, software architecture and development
• Designing, developing, and implementing a Pimcore environment and connecting multiple external API systems in a Kubernetes environment, as well as various PIM and ERP systems
• Technologies: Unix environment, design, Symfony development, PHP 8+, software architecture, MySQL/SQL, shell scripting, Git DevOps tasks, AI coding support, Pimcore 12, Shopware 6
• Team size: >10 people

• Led end-to-end tape-out and photomask preparation for a 300mm automotive semiconductor program, ensuring manufacturability, data integrity, and compliance with automotive quality standards, frame generation, multi-die placement
• Identified and mitigated manufacturing-readiness risks during technology transfer (TI / TSMC 45nm) by implementing reticle, kerf, and alignment optimizations, reducing re-spin exposure, creating alignment, overlay markers, metrology targets, CD-control features, PDM cell
• Coordinated cross-functional stakeholders across design, lithography, manufacturing, and mask vendors to deliver a production-ready mask set under strict schedule constraints
• Performed and calibrated model-based OPC for the 110 nm node, leveraging RET strategies in collaboration with the photolithography modeling team
• Impact: Enabled on-time production release of a safety-critical automotive semiconductor by mitigating tape-out and manufacturability risks under strict quality and yield

Overall responsibility for the company's technical division with a focus on innovation, quality and efficiency. Member of the management board, responsible for the strategic and operational management of all development activities to secure technological leadership and competitiveness. Leading an interdisciplinary team of 21 development engineers from engineering, software, robotics, research & development and product management. Responsible for product and portfolio development, including product management, R&D as well as software and laser process development. Successfully managed the design of standard and special machines, electrical design and technical documentation. Responsible for efficient use of resources within development work and further development of the self-initiated budget tracking system for transparency and tracking of project costs – initially for own area of responsibility, later planned as a company-wide model. Promoted future-oriented technologies and implemented customer-oriented solutions through efficient project planning and proposal development.

• Developed several new products within a few months and successful presentation at AMB 2024. These market-ready developments in machine design, robotic automation and software communication form the basis for the future development of the entire product portfolio
• Developed a technology roadmap for long-term planning and alignment of technology with company goals
• Strategically aligned the technical departments to a common vision
• Recruited and developed junior staff and key positions to ensure seamless and clear collaboration
• Significantly increased efficiency and effectiveness through improved cross-functional collaboration among technical teams
• Designed and implemented a product configurator for the entire portfolio with seamless ERP and CRM integration
• Introduced and optimized numerous new processes to ensure a robust and future-proof company structure
• Modernized and standardized the IT infrastructure across departments
• Represented the company in industry associations, with partners and clients

• Participate in quality workshops for requirements gathering and fit/gap analysis
• Demonstrated different QMS modules/processes with focus on customer requirements
• Design and implementation of cloud based quality system reducing manual efforts for the client
• Collaboration with cross functional teams to define and document system requirements
• Understanding the existing business process flow and suggesting improvements over moving to new quality systems
• Managed the implementation of a data migration strategy from legacy system to cloud
• Providing solution walkthrough to the business users
• Involved in integration of quality system with different third party systems
• Preparing weekly status report and presenting the same to business users and project stakeholders

• Vram.run: Rust, TypeScript, HF Inference API with 19 providers, 220+ HW configs, and 30+ cloud GPUs. Search a model to see which API providers serve it, which GPUs can run it locally (and how fast), and what cloud rental would cost. Or search your hardware and see what fits. Also includes a Rust CLI.
• Psychotron: JavaScript, Web Audio API, AudioWorklet, Canvas 2D. Front-end for flash fiction audiobook with Web Audio DSP chain featuring pitch-shifting, 12-voice chorus, flanger, 13-band EQ, and convolver reverb. Includes a 2D canvas effect morphing engine and synchronized teleprompter.
• RecentWork: Swift, macOS, FSEvents, launchd. macOS daemon that watches project directories and maintains a flat folder of symlinks to recently modified files. Homebrew installable.
• Mini-llm: Bash, macOS, launchd, Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, Open WebUI. Single command that turns a Mac Mini into a headless AI server.
• ThatSlop: JavaScript. Chrome/Firefox extension for AI content detection on LinkedIn and Twitter.
• Smux: Bash, tmux. Human-friendly tmux wrapper that is Homebrew installable.
• Learn Rust Course: Rust. Course on Rust’s memory model for C++ programmers, written from experience of transitioning from C++ to Rust at Irreducible.

• Due to an organizational restructuring towards product-based teams, the implementation of a Data Mesh in the area of Digital Supplier Management (DSM) was decided.
• A highly available real-time Data Mesh for providing large volumes of data via Kafka and REST to other products.
• New development of a core supplier management software in a (micro-)service-based architecture with a modern tech stack.
• Technologies/Tools:
• Java 21
• Spring Boot
• Angular
• TypeScript
• Go
• MapR
• Kafka
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• GitLab CI
• Maven
• JUnit
• Mockito
• WireMock
• Cypress
• Keycloak
• OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect
• Humio
• Nexus
• Artifactory
• SonarQube
• Renovate
• Git
• Postman
• IntelliJ

• Product owner and Executive Sponsor for AI Assistant trained on a knowledge base of past solution designs, RFP documents, and current product documentation
• Used by close to 100 global architects and engineers in pre-sales and post-sales
• Generates full solution documents with requirement driven architecture decisions, solution overview, diagrams, bill of material, roles and responsibility matrix
• Technologies: AI, LLM, Chat Bot, RAG, Agentic AI, Vector Databases, Public Cloud

• Led 50+ professionals from business and tech, blending servant and disciplinary leadership to drive AI automation, performance optimization, and efficiency.
• Championed Agile adoption across multiple teams, improving sprint delivery, achieving an 85% sprint completion rate and a 20% increase in development speed.
• Served as a Product Owner for a Banking App, leveraging Agile and Scrum methodologies to double sales revenue and GMV while scaling operations efficiently.
• Cut project costs by 15% through strategic vendor selection and optimized payments and subscriptions by integrating payment gateways and automating SaaS workflows, increasing conversion rates by 20%.
• Integrated cloud and CRM solutions including Salesforce and HubSpot, increasing uptime by 30% and cutting costs by 15%.
• Delivered key features 15% under budget, cut defects by 30%, and ensured a 98% bug resolution rate through XP, CI/CD, and strategic stakeholder alignment.
• Improved team collaboration and workflow efficiency by integrating Jira, Confluence, and Monday.com, leading to a 25% boost in productivity.
• Technologies and tools used include AWS, Azure, SaaS, Jira, Confluence, CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot), CI/CD, payments and subscriptions, Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP), SAFe, product backlog refinement, user stories, and sprint planning and execution.
• Recent project: Soneri Digital – web and app for Soneri Bank Limited, serving over 1 million active users.
• Recent project: Metro Store – web, app, and CRM for an online supermarket offering fast home delivery and multiple payment options, serving over 1 million active users.

• Leading 20+ staff in development, site reliability engineering, and architecture.
• Leading the group-wide agentic AI initiative (Norway, Poland, Germany).
• Hands-on solution architect and AI consultant for over 50% of my working time on client projects in the publishing sector – from local publishers to international corporations.
• Strategic consulting and technical implementation of AI workflow platforms (n8n, Workato).
• Developing prototypes for traditional, AI-based, and agentic AI workflows.

• Moderation of ideation and blueprinting workshops with Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts and Solution Architects to capture business requirements and to derive solution hypotheses for different value streams in the transformation project RAITT
• Documentation and refinement of requirements in MIRO, Confluence and Jira
• Reduced complexity of business requirements, invalidated the business value of features, resulting in a higher priority backlog