Android Experts in Berlin

• Lead Product Owner role for the BFSG pilot journey “Search and Book” across web and app, focusing on digital accessibility, UX, conversion, and regulatory implementation.
• Created and prioritized the product backlog; derived user stories and acceptance criteria from legal standards (BFSG, WCAG 2.1)
• Developed a product vision that combines digital accessibility, user-centered UX, and conversion optimization for the booking journey
• Cross-stream release management and quality assurance across the entire web and app area, including go/no-go decisions, rollout, and user acceptance tests
• Coordinated and prioritized with Legal, Compliance, external BFSG consultants, UX, Development, Marketing, and Management
• Conducted user research as well as usability and accessibility tests (including screen readers and keyboard navigation) and prototyping with UX/UI
• Defined KPIs to measure accessibility, conversion, and user guidance
• BFSG pilot journey “Search and Book” successfully delivered: first accessible features rolled out and the foundation for a long-term BFSG-compliant booking journey established
• Established sustainable process integration through close collaboration with consulting partners and internal teams

• Led backlog prioritization for a $90M automotive SaaS product, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer satisfaction.
• Led customer-facing product enhancements, leveraging data-driven insights and operational analytics to improve fulfillment performance, optimize logistics processes, and deliver measurable customer value.
• Delivered measurable business impact by improving product fill rate by 10–15% through optimized order fulfillment strategies.
• Led a 12-member cross-functional team in Agile/Scrum environments to deliver high-quality product increments on time.
• Collaborated with global stakeholders, engineering teams, and business partners across US & EU environments
• Expanded OEM partner ecosystem by onboarding from 8 to 14 partners (+75%), increasing integration and platform reach.
• Delivered a feature enabling size-restricted part sales, contributing to 7.1% revenue growth and reducing OEM costs by approximately $2.68M annually.
• Managed API integrations and data interfaces by gathering requirements, defining data mappings.
• Defined and tracked OKRs focused on growth, reliability, operational efficiency, and delivery performance.
• Utilized analysis techniques to derive actionable insights from trend analysis using large datasets and support strategic decision-making.
• Conducted UAT, A/B testing, regression testing, and usability validation to ensure quality delivery and improved user experience.

Helping product organizations to grow and scale business by creating digital products customers love.

• Built an MVP and launched a new business line of long-term e-scooters rental at Nordic and German markets for TIER Mobility.
• Reorganized and led product team; launched and scaled deposit warranty service; improved subscription pricing performance; smoothly handed over duties to hired PMs for ImmobilienScout24.
• Ideated and launched Marketplace product for the biggest telehealth service in the US; discovered and validated multiple Marketplace addons; launched live interpreter and whiteboarding services for major medical institutions for Doxy.me.
• Established the growth framework and processes in a Series A B2B Fintech start-up for VAI Trade.

• Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.

• Last projects:

• Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.

• Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.

• Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.

• Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.

• Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:

• Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.

• Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.

• Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.

• Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.

• Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:

• Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.

• Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.

• Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.

• Founded an AI-powered scheduling and business-management SaaS for SMBs, owning technology strategy, architecture, product development, UX, billing and go-to-market execution.
• Architected and shipped a multi-tenant platform with REST APIs, RBAC, CRM, billing and notifications, powering the manager dashboard, admin console, booking experience and iOS/Android applications.
• Led and mentored 7 software engineers, 1 DevOps engineer, 1 QA engineer and 1 UX/UI designer, while remaining hands-on across backend, frontend and product delivery.
• Built AI voice and chat agents using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, RAG, pgvector and tool calling; integrated Twilio, Google Calendar/Meet, Stripe and Firebase.
• Owned production infrastructure and automated delivery across separate environments using Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions and Grafana; represented the company at accelerators and international startup events.

Selected stack: Python, FastAPI, Node.js, Vue 3, React/Next.js, React Native, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker

• Led development of RunBot AI assistant autonomously using LLM-powered workflow automation (React, TypeScript, Java, MongoDB, NATS)
• Architected TMS platform providing unified transportation management and real-time logistics visibility with AI processing pipelines
• Designed event-driven microservices architecture supporting marketplace
• Drove architectural decisions and technical leadership across full-stack platform development

I run my own freelance agency based in Berlin and help startups and teams.

• I helped 100+ businesses achieve the digital products they wanted.
• Took ownership of the design process, collaborating with other teams.
• Conducted design thinking, user research, and competitive analysis.
• Developed design concepts, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Optimized websites and their conversion rates to reach more clients.
• I help clients in tech, hospitality, luxury, real estate, and professional services.
• I work with long-term products and clients like Accor, Corso Da Vinci, Webwavers, and ImmoTrust.

• Independently designed, developed, published, and maintained mobile games for iOS and Android.
• Implemented application architecture, gameplay systems, UI, monetization, analytics, and platform integrations.
• Managed the complete release lifecycle, including testing, store publication, production monitoring, and iterative improvements based on analytics.

• Contributed to the architecture design process, resulting in scalable and maintainable solutions for complex projects.
• Enhanced app performance by optimizing code and implementing efficient algorithms.
• Stayed current with industry trends to ensure implementation of best practices in app development.
• Led a team of iOS developers for timely completion of projects and achieving client satisfaction.
• Translated basic design plans into full iOS app frameworks, delegating project components to appropriate team members.
• Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.

• RLHF & Model Evaluation: Evaluated, ranked, and refined Large Language Model (LLM) responses based on accuracy, reasoning quality, safety guidelines, and factual correctness.
• Data Annotation & Prompt Engineering: Created high-complexity prompts, edge-case scenarios, and gold-standard reference answers to train and fine-tune generative AI models.
• Quality Assurance & Verification: Conducted rigorous fact-checking, logical consistency validation, and multi-turn response optimization.

• IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration

• IT consulting, coaching, and implementation with a focus on AI

• Implementation of a full-stack application with Angular as the frontend framework and Java as the backend language
• Use of the Swagger OpenAPI specification for REST communication between the frontend and backend applications
• Control of a card printer via the Nexus Card SDK framework
• Design and implementation of card management software with a web interface and a JavaFX module for printer monitoring
• Use of Cucumber tests for test automation and creation of test artifacts to test outside the development environment
• Use of Wireshark for network investigations to analyze the API of a third-party product and to monitor the REST API of the self-developed software

• Provide the Price Listing Service team with prices for all cars and vans in different markets
• Adapt market-specific requirements such as taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
• Import and synchronize new prices for all new and existing cars and store them in the Redis datastore
• Support our product and on-call duty
• Daily business, development of new features, bug fixing
• Pair programming, code review, mob programming
• Develop POCs for new ideas
• Maintain and extend the backend
• DevOps tasks
• Run Kubernetes updates
• Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
• Develop and adapt Helm charts
• Adapt and update ArgoCD
• Maintain, adapt, and improve CI/CD