Autonomous Driving Experts in Germany

• Managing Director of Vishnu Artists GmbH in Berlin (since 01/2025, together with Benedikt Irsch).
• Responsible for the company's finance, planning and reporting; working with DATEV.
• Reporting with Power BI as well as planning and analysis models in Excel as a basis for management decisions.
• Selection, development and implementation of AI-supported tools in the company, including Flow Compass.
• Co-host of the Vishnu AI Freelancer Meetup, which takes place every four weeks on Miro; exchange about the practical use of AI applications in coaching and facilitation.

• Development of the unified CARIAD E3 2.0 software platform for future mobility
• Stakeholder management
• Synchronization and alignment with Solutions (UX, Security, Data Product & Mobility Services, Architecture, Software Product, Integration)
• Workshop and migration management
• Conducting risk matrix analyses
• Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Codebeamer

• Ran a group-wide steering committee to set strategic direction for a turnaround program. Planned delivery to secure go-to-market and investor milestones
• Prepared the project structure and supplier management process for an ACQ.4 Automotive SPICE audit. Built dry runs and compiled evidence with the team, resulting in a successful CL2 assessment
• Synchronized Automotive SPICE activities with the organization's SAFe rollout by screening base practices and agile artifacts for overlap. Avoided approximately 30% duplicate effort

• Transformation Consultant, Release Train Engineer and Program Lead – responsible for the new Way of Working in the Open Gateway Program; optimizing the flow of value by ensuring the ART events and artifacts function correctly, including the Open Gateway Release Train Kanban, Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshop, ART Sync Meetings, and PI Planning to ensure stakeholder alignment;
• Coaching and guiding the Product Owners, Business Owners, Product Management, Program Managers, Leaders, Tribe Architect
• Coaching the OGW Core Team (cross functional) within the OGW Program and developing optimization measures in their transformation process;
• Facilitating and working actively towards the creation of the Definition of Ready (DoR) and the product Definition of Done (DoD);
• Introducing knowledge sharing workshops and grow the agile engineering practices;
• Hold Team lift-off workshops;
• Help the group to become a team by providing system team coaching and multifunctional learning;
• Facilitate, decision making, feedback loops for learning new skills and practices

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, Miro

• Project: Thermomix Online Mock
• Manual execution of functional tests
• Implementation of automated end-to-end tests
• Execution of regression tests and analysis of results
• Further development of the QA website server using Express.js, Handlebars and Node.js
• Further development of the test environment
• Technologies: Agile software development Scrum, Robot Framework, Python, JavaScript, Git (GitLab), VS Code, Jira, Confluence, Express.js, Handlebars, Phoenix/Elixir

• Developing a model-based AI where natural language is interpreted as formal relations.
• Natural language terms are not considered rigid but fluid and can be negotiated in a context so meaning resolves by iteratively specifying.
• Develops all kinds of model solutions.
• Backed by natural language and data annotation.
• Requirements to code and other solutions.

• Responsibility for the further development of digital service products with a focus on customer value, profitability, and scalable growth
• Development and prioritization of the service product roadmap based on customer feedback, market analysis, financial evaluation, and technical feasibility
• Identification of new digital service opportunities as well as derivation of product requirements, feature priorities, and value propositions
• Alignment of product vision, roadmap, and user experience with product owners, center of competence, sales, service, and market organizations
• Support of go-to-market activities, market validations, and internal training for the successful launch of digital service offerings
• Use of data-based decision-making to assess customer needs, business model assumptions, and product progress

Testing and verification of high-voltage systems

• Performed integration and system tests for control units in PHEV/EV vehicles using ECU-TEST (TraceTronic), Vector CANoe, CANalyzer, ETAS INCA, Tornado, E-Sys, and EDIABAS.
• Analyzed the interaction of high-voltage control units (including CCU, BMU, inverter, IPB, and IPF) and carried out software updates and flash processes to verify new software versions.
• Worked closely with software, system, and integration teams in an agile development environment to analyze issues and verify new software versions.

• Own the technical direction of several AI products in a product-owner capacity: shape roadmaps, guide the in-house development team, and provide oversight from concept through delivery.
• Act as the technical bridge between stakeholders, end clients, and vendors for a solutions provider (reseller and in-house products): evaluate vendor solutions against client needs, lead vendor discussions, and support sales and pre-sales with technical solution design.

• Azure Landing Zone architecture: Design and implement a hub-spoke, multi-region-capable Azure landing zone that provides the secure, scalable and highly available foundation for autonomous driving and parking data/ML platforms.
• Compliance through Azure Policy: Enforce security and compliance standards across Azure subscriptions via Azure Policy (guardrails, deny/audit/deploy-if-not-exists), consistently achieving top-tier infrastructure security scores.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Automate provisioning and configuration of Azure resources with Terraform and Bicep, with changes delivered through reviewed CI/CD pipelines.
• Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog: Extensive experience operating Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog for centralized data governance, access control, lineage and auditing across workspaces.
• Monitoring and observability: Built and run infrastructure monitoring and logging with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki, covering platform health, alerting, troubleshooting and capacity trends.
• Platform at scale: Architected and operate cloud data/ML platforms supporting multi-PB vehicle data ingestion and simulation; orchestrate Argo Workflow-based recompute and autolabeling services scaling to 100k+ concurrent pods on AKS.
• Reproducible ML: Established reproducible training environments with dataset versioning and provenance tracking, enabling auditing and experiment reliability.
• Operational excellence: Automated GitHub organization management and CI/CD pipelines, improving developer productivity and deployment reliability; automated recurring operational processes.
• FinOps: Developed transparent resource utilization and cost-tracking for multi-project Azure environments.
• Leadership: Technical lead for infrastructure topics, collaborating with development, DevOps and security teams; technical interviewer and recruitment panel member for scaling the engineering team.

• Independently responsible for the conception and cross-market rollout of a safety-relevant digitalization project for the centralized, transparent provision of vehicle and service data
• Developed an integration concept for existing IT and workshop sy...

• Acted as technical consultant to optimize multi-layer ensemble models combining ResNet, CNN-BiGRU-Attention, and XGBoost.
• Guided implementation of a Logistic Regression meta-learner to solve class imbalance problems, achieving 92.86% accuracy and 0.9644 AUC on PTB-XL and Chapman-Shaoxing datasets.

• Lead functional safety strategy and ISO 26262 compliance across the full lifecycle for a high-voltage electronic switching device that safely connects/disconnects the HV battery in EVs, enabling fast fault isolation and high-current interruption.
• Own the Functional Safety Management Plan (FSMP) and Development Interface Agreement (DIA), acting as the primary safety governance authority across program stakeholders.
• Architect system safety concepts — developing FSC, TSC, and system safety architecture — and define the safety manual with complete user instructions.
• Direct verification and confirmation reviews per ISO 26262 independence requirements.
• Lead safety analysis activities (FTA, FMEA, FMEDA, DFA) and chair vehicle/system integration reviews across cross-functional engineering teams.
• Define methods, templates, and processes that establish best-in-class FuSa practices organization-wide.
• Conduct SEooC assessments and audits, representing the safety organization to internal leadership and external stakeholders.

Cross-company SAFe environment for autonomous driving with an OEM, software organization, international suppliers and engineering partners. The project is being carried out as part of the organizational integration of two organizations. Portfolio and value management, operating model, product compliance, prototype logistics and management transparency are being realigned and integrated into daily management.

Senior Transformation Consultant for Strategy Execution. Built and continuously improved the operating model, roles, processes, governance and management mechanisms. Coordinated cross-organizational topics in compliance, prototype logistics, data and AI.

• Supported LPM and VMO in building structures, content and artifacts for portfolio management and prioritization; prepared epics, dependencies, risks and decision points.

• Continuously developed the operating model: identified blind spots and adapted SAFe roles, committees, artifacts, interfaces and management mechanisms.

• Coordinated cross-functional and cross-ART initiatives: maintained roadmaps, made risks, issues and dependencies transparent, and prepared and tracked decisions and actions.

• Aligned processes, methods and supporting IT systems; specified system changes from a business perspective and supported their implementation with business and IT.

• Built interdisciplinary team, role and governance structures to ensure reliable compliance with regulatory and compliance requirements.

• Coordinated prototype logistics for vehicle testing in the USA, including export and import; provided occasional support for the Uplifter/vehicle conversion concept.

• Built management reporting for portfolio and audit status, developed the management dashboard and assessed opportunities for AI-supported automation.

• Defined and collected KPIs and developed a data strategy for measurement logic, data quality and regular reporting.

• Created and maintained roadmaps for key topics and used them as a basis for prioritization, decision preparation and follow-up.

• Built management reporting for portfolio and audit status; made risks, dependencies, actions and open decision points transparent.

• Defined KPIs and developed a data strategy for collection, measurement and reporting; visualized results in the management dashboard.

• Validated, stabilized and handed over the management dashboard as an MVP with ARTs and RTEs; assessed the potential for AI-supported reporting.

• Defined team structures, roles and responsibilities; identified blind spots and continuously improved the operating model, interfaces and management mechanisms.

• Coordinated prototypes for vehicle testing in the USA and provided conceptual support for the required vehicle conversion.