Cursor Experts in Berlin

Workflow-automation SaaS for operations teams (Berlin, 120 people); full-time freelance engagement reporting to the CEO: an initial 12-month interim mandate, extended twice through the AI build-out; owned product for one squad and coached the other product managers on process.

• Led generative AI (LLM) integration into the core product: from LLM-powered steps to natural-language workflow authoring and step-level automation suggestions, plus AI-managed dynamic workflows, shipped behind eval gates with human-in-the-loop fallbacks: AI-drafted workflows grew to 31% of all new workflows, and median time-to-first-workflow fell from 3 days to 4 hours.
• Packaged the AI capabilities as a usage-based add-on priced on executed automation steps, working with sales and marketing on positioning: ~€800K added ARR in the first year, and adopting accounts churned 1.8 pp less.
• Owned the roadmap end to end: replaced feature-request-driven quarterly planning with an outcome-based rolling roadmap built on quarterly bets and explicit kill criteria, presented monthly to the executive team and quarterly to the board.
• Rebuilt the product-management operating system: weekly customer-discovery cadence incl. workshop facilitation, RFC/decision-doc reviews and a single quarterly metrics narrative; coached four product managers, one promoted to senior during the engagement.
• Closed the engagement as scoped: hired and onboarded the permanent VP Product, handed over the process playbook and roadmap, and exited on schedule in June 2026.

• Leading UX for a Property Management System, an all-in-one solution for vacation rental agencies and tourism regions, covering marketing and rental of holiday apartments and houses
• UX audits, conception, and implementation of UX strategy with a focus on regulatory, security, and user-centered requirements
• Advising C-level stakeholders on UX strategy and design best practices
• Planning and conducting research with agencies and property owners
• Design system strategy and definition of UX architecture

• ▶ Built real-time voice assistant (STT → LLM → TTS pipeline) benchmarking and evaluating multiple STT providers including faster-whisper and Azure Speech. achieved sub-3s latency, Groq API (Llama 3) with multi-turn memory - directly handling edge cases in dictation, names and passcode recognition.

• Hired to build the People function from the ground up as the first People hire
• Defined the hiring plan and closed 2 Sales Manager hires
• Ran a people and culture audit and built the 12-month People roadmap
• Managed the hiring freeze and overall communication after the company lost its DiGA listing following a regulatory decision

• Designed and implemented scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, dbt, AWS and Informatica to ingest data from sources such as APIs, relational databases, and flat files into Snowflake, reducing pipeline runtime by ~30%.
• Migrated high-volume datasets from on-premises Teradata to Snowflake using AWS services (S3, Glue, Step Functions, IAM), ensuring data consistency and integrity.
• Applied Kimball methodology to design star and snowflake schemas, improving query performance and reducing Snowflake compute costs.
• Implemented automated data quality checks using SQL-based dbt tests and the Great Expectations framework to detect anomalies and enforce data correctness before production loads.
• Orchestrated ETL workflows in Airflow using Python and managed code deployments via Git with CI/CD best practices to increase deployment reliability and maintain pipeline uptime.
• Built interactive Power BI dashboards and curated datasets to enable data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
• Maintained technical documentation in Confluence for ETL workflows, and led knowledge-sharing sessions for new joiners.

• Led the end-to-end delivery of enterprise full-stack web applications by driving requirement analysis, solution design, frontend and backend development, database design, API integration, code reviews, team coordination, Agile execution, CI/CD deployments, production support, performance optimization, security implementation, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions.

• 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

AI Sales Teammate

• Took Halvday from concept to live product in five months, securing three design partners and two paid engagements, including PlanRadar.
• Built and shipped the product end-to-end as a solo founder, spanning product strategy, frontend, backend, agent orchestration, infrastructure, design, compliance and go-to-market.

• Owned product delivery for document automation and workflow platform used across multiple legal jurisdictions
• Led integration across 6+ systems using API-based data exchange and structured data mapping
• Partnered with engineering on data models, document generation workflows, and system orchestration
• Evaluated LLM-assisted document automation opportunities to reduce manual drafting
• Built functional prototypes to validate workflow and product concepts
• ~2x increase in case processing throughput
• Enabled multi-state rollout of platform capabilities
• Reduced manual document generation and operational bottlenecks by 80%

• Taught Python, Pandas, data analysis, visualization and Power BI to 250+ students.
• Guided practical projects from data preparation and exploratory analysis through visualization and dashboard creation.
• Explained complex analytical concepts clearly to audiences with different levels of technical experience.

AI • Enterprise SaaS • Product Strategy • Product Discovery

Led product design for enterprise SaaS, AI-powered and customer-facing products.

• Defined product strategy from discovery to delivery
• Designed complex workflows, design systems and scalable UX
• Led UX research, product discovery and stakeholder workshops

• Savills is one of the world's leading property advisors with 700+ offices worldwide. In Berlin, I built core digital solutions for the valuation business, replacing legacy Access-based workflows with an enterprise-grade web app built on Vue.js.
• Frontend Architecture & Scalability: Designed scalable Vue + TypeScript frontend architecture for internal enterprise applications, integrating a Symfony backend and interactive maps.
• Legacy Modernization: Led the modernization of legacy jQuery-based systems into maintainable Vue-driven applications, improving performance, maintainability, and efficiency across business workflows.
• PDF Report Workflow Automation: Engineered Twig-based automated PDF generation pipelines that reduced manual report preparation time by ~80%, saving approximately 12h per analyst/month.
• Design System & Frontend: Built a scalable SASS-based design system using mixins, maps, functions, and reusable UI patterns for consistency and long-term maintainability.

• Proposed a unified advisor experience to simplify customer interaction management and helped secure buy-in for full-scale development.
• Redesigned 3 critical financial service workflows, improving usability while meeting compliance and accessibility requirements.
• Worked closely with legal, engineering, and accessibility teams to take solutions from early concepts to production-ready designs.
• Identified and fixed a major bottleneck in the request-handling flow, reducing friction for support teams by 40%.

Discovery, Delivery, Research, in-depth interviews, user testing, requirements definition, stakeholder management, product strategy, mission & vision, prototyping, sprint planning, prioritization, workshop facilitation, etc.