Azure Boards Experts in Germany

• Coach international tech professionals through career transitions, helping high achievers move from reactive decision-making to clarity-driven career and life choices.
• Combined software engineering and consulting background with coaching expertise to address challenges specific to the tech industry, including career stagnation, imposter syndrome, and uncertainty around AI's impact on the field.
• Some of my client's measurable outcomes include landing multiple concurrent interview processes after a multi-year career gap, launching independent product ventures, securing technical roles that improved both financial stability and job performance, transitioning into non-tech careers.
• ~200 hours of coaching sessions. Guided clients through 1:1 and group coaching engagements, ranging from single sessions to year-long partnerships, focused on sustainable, values-aligned career growth.

• Operating Model Design: Designed and rolled out a 3-tier AI Governance Operating Model, defining organizational structures, roles, tooling, guidelines and processes across Corporate, Business Units, and Implementation layers to manage compliance for 200,000+ employees.
• EU AI Act Compliance: Led the strategic screening and risk classification of 3,800+ AI applications, implementing automated assessments for prohibited practices and General Purpose AI (GPAI) requirements.
• Enterprise Roll-out: Orchestrated the deployment of an internal GPT platform and Generative AI tools, defining the value proposition and adoption strategies for 10,000+ users.
• AI Literacy Architecture: Designed a modular AI training framework to transition the workforce from legacy manual workflows to AI-assisted processes.
• Executive Storylining: Developed strategic narratives for the CIO and Board to secure buy-in for AI investments, translating technical model performance into business-value summaries.
• PMO Infrastructure: Built the end-to-end PMO infrastructure using Jira, Confluence, and Azure Boards to track transformation progress and cross-entity dependencies.

MS Fabric certification with creation of pipelines and notebooks in Fabric using data from Azure, Azure Repos, Azure Boards, and GitHub. Data ingestion via OneLake Explorer, direct IP connection, and API (REST) are the main topics

• B2B Platform & Team Building: building a digital platform and an international remote development team
• KPI System & Digitalization Impact: introducing data-driven metrics and responsible for automated real-time reporting
• Product & Process Workshops: enabling portfolio companies in digital product development and performance reporting

• Built advanced expertise in designing and deploying Model Context Protocol (MCP) infrastructures to enhance AI agent capabilities for an NGO.
• Developed and maintained MCP servers (e.g., using FastMCP) exposing external tools and data sources to LLMs via a standardized API (JSOB).
• Enabled seamless tool integration by adhering an MCP client-server architecture, allowing AI hosts or agents to dynamically discover and invoke tools, access resources, and leverage custom prompts (File Storage, SQL DBs, weaviate, chroma).
• Automated deployment (CI/CD) in AWS with IaC (CDK) and Jenkins (scheduler).
• Conducted comparative model evaluation due to German language needs (Hugging Face over Anthropic, Coehere, others) and AWS Bedrock.
• Evaluated legal and regulatory aspects, ensuring the MCP-based solutions complied with emerging EU AI Act requirements, such as risk classification, transparency, documentation, and responsible tool provisioning within the European context.

The goal of the project is to integrate a new document creation system (MText) into the existing system landscape. For this, I independently develop several Spring Boot microservices that handle the conversion from XML to JSON formats and control direct communication with MText. The applications are containerized and run in the AWS Cloud with Kubernetes and Helm.

• Developed an integration service that bundles multiple calls and acts as a facade for communicating with various services
• Developed a conversion service to transform unstructured XML files into structured JSON files for different business units
• Extensive unit and integration tests for file conversion; mocking interfaces with WireMock, Aspects, etc.
• Unified exception handling with @ControllerAdvice and Aspects
• Professional design of OAS definitions (design-first approach)
• Created client and server implementations based on OAS definitions (OpenAPI Specification) using code generators and managed them in Nexus
• Logging in combination with the ELK stack
• Integrated the MText server via HTTP calls
• Created DORA-compliant tests with Xray in coordination with testers
• Set up the CI/CD pipeline with GitLab Actions
• Handled security issues from AquaScan and coding issues from SonarQube
• Distributed services across different stages (Dev, Test, VProd, Prod)
• Set up and maintained Helm charts

Technologies used:

• Backend: Spring Boot, Java 17, JUnit5, OpenAPI (OAS), OAuth2, WireMock
• DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Anypoint, Nexus
• Cloud: AWS, EKS
• Project management: Jira, Confluence