Cypher Experts in Germany

• Building up the Enterprise Architecture department. Preparing the convergence of IT / OT.
• Mapping the global business application landscape (6 countries).
• Concept for a graph model of the application landscape. Storing the results in the open-source graph database Neo4J. Various reports in the database query language CYPHER and the visualization component BLOOM. Automatic generation of IT architecture diagrams.
• Development of an application taxonomy to identify redundant applications.
• Applying Gartner's Software Portfolio Management TIME model (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, and Eliminate) for portfolio management.
• Enterprise Architecture Governance: establishing architecture guidelines for documenting measures and decisions.
• Process modeling according to Porter (Value Chain).
• Various architecture approvals for change requests and documentation in Architecture Decision Records (ADR).
• Working on the RACI matrix for various processes.
• Working on business capabilities as preparation for a LeanIX rollout.
• Contributing to the concept for IT/OT convergence.
• Establishing architecture guidelines in a very pragmatic corporate culture. Knowledge about applications and responsibilities is spread across the world.

Designed and developed an Azure-based AI and data platform transforming distributed project documents into searchable, structured knowledge for an enterprise AI assistant. Combined incremental document processing, hybrid keyword/vector retrieval, knowledge graph extraction, and conversational AI for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Implemented Python document-processing pipelines for PDF, Word, Outlook and text files; Azure Cosmos DB lifecycle management; Azure AI Search; Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI; identity-aware retrieval with Microsoft Entra ID; project authorization; a TypeScript Microsoft Agents SDK agent; Pulumi infrastructure; resilient scheduling, retry and diagnostic tooling. Technology stack: Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Pydantic, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Cosmos DB, Blob/Table Storage, Container Apps/Jobs, Service Bus, Key Vault, Entra ID, Docker, Pulumi, pytest, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

UEF 3.0 · Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) · Autonomous Systems (UAS / dual use)

• Designed: Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) – AI-guided administration without replacing existing specialist procedures. Read-only semantic layer over registers and specialist processes based on the Federal Information Management (FIM). Decision authority remains with the case worker (architecture principle).
• Developed: Reference architecture with source-backed, derived statements (Executable Ontologies OWL/RDF/SHACL). Technically guaranteed purpose limitation and no-write-path principle in specialist data – auditable, without a central data pool.
• Anchored: Regulation as a design principle: EU AI Act (high-risk obligations for public-sector AI, fundamental rights impact assessment under Art. 27), GDPR, NIS2, and administrative automation limits (§ 35a VwVfG, § 31a SGB X) as technical control points in the architecture.
• Created: Methodical tool for pilot organizations: data pipeline assessment (phase 0), compliance blueprint, and management summary as a decision-ready package for public administration.
• Specified: UEF 3.0 as a successor architecture to TOGAF – decision paper, canonical ontology, six-layer architecture, read/actuate boundary, federation registry, terminology concordance, and release delta as a closed specification status.
• Architected: AI-native mission OS for autonomous UAS and ground robotics as a tactical layer on top of a separately approved autopilot. Run-time assurance according to ASTM F3269-21 (Simplex pattern): the verified safety controller keeps authority, the AI function provides suggestions.
• Designed: Three-tier architecture – Tier 0 autopilot with 650 Hz flight control on RTOS, Tier 1 AI OS with semantic world model and multi-agent cluster, Tier 2 swarm and ground mesh. Zenoh as the primary fabric, MAVLink as the only authenticated command path (single writer). Result: graceful degradation – loss of the mission, not of the aircraft.
• Secured: Two-gate chain on the read/actuate boundary – governance gate (can-question: AI Act risk class per actuation, enforced human oversight under Art. 14, immutable log) before the RTA safety monitor (is-it-correct question: flight envelope, geofence, energy reserve) with revert to the baseline controller.
• Anchored: Dual-use architecture with common core and build-time fork instead of runtime switch. Three separate legal levels: civil variant – UAS under the EASA Basic Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 with the limited applicability under Art. 2(2) of the AI Act, ground robotics under the Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 with the full high-risk obligation chain, Cyber Resilience Act for both; unarmed carrier variant as defense material under AWG/AWV and Dual-Use Regulation 2021/821 (BAFA approval); armed variant under KrWaffKontrG. Each variant lives under exactly one dominant legal regime. Evidence base: AI BOM, SBOM, and complete data lineage.
• Analyzed: System analysis and realignment of grown engineering system landscapes. Approach concept for consolidation without migration – semantic layer over the existing sources instead of data transfer. Result: decision-ready implementation concept including an evaluation model for the target architecture.

End-to-end responsibility for all products – conception, architecture, development, and production operations as the sole developer; also customer discussions, proposals, and marketing.

Underwriting Copilot – AI assistant for industrial insurance (in production with a customer)

• Supports underwriters in analyzing industrial insurance submissions – in production at an industrial insurer.
• Framework-independent RAG architecture with Hybrid Search (BM25 + pgvector) across large, heterogeneous document collections.
• Two-stage evaluation and observability pipeline (code assertions + LLM-as-Judge) that makes answer quality, retrieval accuracy, and citation integrity measurable in a regression-safe way.

Kaiki Menu Analyzer – Data intelligence platform (in production with a customer)

• Automatically collects and analyzes food data from around 25,000 German restaurants.
• Scalable 7-container architecture (FastAPI, partitioned PostgreSQL, Redis/RQ) with LLM-supported extraction of structured data from PDF, HTML, and images.
• Complete CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), production cloud deployment, interactive dashboards (Dash).

Kaiki GEO Atlas – GEO platform (in production with a customer)

• Measures brand visibility across five AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Claude), each augmented with web search, orchestrated as a DAG workflow pipeline (Dispatcher → Sub-Workflows → Scoring → Report) with fail isolation.
• 6-container deployment (FastAPI, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL); LLM cost estimation, PDF audit report, rule-based cross-signal insights (no additional LLM effort).

Data Pipeline & Analytics Platform – Competitive analysis in the automotive aftermarket

• Automated data pipeline with gap analysis algorithms and role-based access control; 230+ tests.
• Backend with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy.

Product development (actively in development)

BankingGPT – AI assistant for complaint management in cooperative banking

• Security architecture at its core: no AI draft reaches the customer without human approval – the approval decision is stored in auditable code, not in the language model (monotonic: the model may increase the level, but never lower it).
• Genuine agentic components, each with its own boundaries: the model selects tools itself through an MCP server (read-only, allowlisted, capped, fail-safe); sensitive cases are sent via the open A2A protocol (JSON-RPC, Agent Card, message/send/tasks/get; client implemented independently) to a standalone specialist agent (securities/law), which never lowers the review requirement (pinned by tests).
• Evaluation-driven across ten analysis rounds; an independent review and blind tests uncovered a security defect that nine automated runs had missed.
• Voice AI frontend, responding live: covered cases are answered during the conversation, while sensitive cases are escalated before generation; measured response latency < 7 s (local GPU STT/TTS).

Stack & production readiness: Python, pydantic-ai, FastAPI/Celery, PostgreSQL/pgvector, FastMCP, fasta2a, Docker; multi-tenant (physical vector isolation per tenant), encrypted PII, OWASP-LLM-reviewed, 275 tests, CI/CD; provider-portable (Ollama / EU-Cloud-Vertex).

After-Sales Assistant – agentic RAG/GraphRAG assistant based on public OEM manuals (automotive after-sales)

• Genuinely agentic with LangGraph: ReAct agent with four tools and conversation memory – the model decides itself whether to use the manual (RAG, Chroma), a knowledge graph (GraphRAG, Neo4j/Cypher – decoding warning lights), or a workshop/booking service.
• Human-in-the-loop before the irreversible action: before every appointment booking, the graph pauses (interrupt) and obtains the driver's explicit confirmation – the same approval-before-action discipline as in BankingGPT, in a different framework.
• Eval as a CI gate: three-part scorecard (RAGAS grounding + deterministic tool-routing accuracy + DeepEval safety: does the answer mention the warning first in the case of a critical warning?) blocks the pipeline; provider-agnostic (OpenAI/Azure/Anthropic), FastAPI with token streaming.

Stack: Python, LangChain/LangGraph, Chroma, Neo4j, RAGAS/DeepEval, FastAPI, Docker.

• Built an API to ingest, clean, translate, and index EU tenders documents in Neo4j, enabling hybrid search with RAG and Cypher queries via a Streamlit dashboard
• Deployed the API on AWS Lightsail container services with CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions, ensuring stability through pytest unit and integration tests
• Designed and developed a comprehensive online course on data analysis using ChatGPT for professionals and learners, creating instructional videos and interactive Jupyter notebooks
• Utilized OBS and professional audio equipment to ensure high-quality video and audio content
• Led a CRM data normalization and cleaning project visualized via a Sankey diagram to aid customer understanding and pipeline development
• Implemented and validated a genAI-driven web crawling strategy on AWS, ensuring data quality, scalability, and CRM data augmentation

• Context: Healthcare and laboratory teams required faster document analysis, treatment-planning support, and reliable AI workflows for MR/VR-assisted operations.
• Contribution: Built the AI healthcare platform, model/agent workflows, VR-glasses deployment platform, REST APIs, Next.js/React interfaces, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Impact: Delivered a production-ready AI product foundation that improved clinical document review, supported laboratory automation, and made VR fleet deployment manageable across environments.

Tech: TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, React, Java, Spring Boot, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, GitLab, GitHub Actions.

• Responsible for the architecture and development of an AI-native SaaS platform for industrial product portfolio management.
• Designed the modern data platform architecture on Azure for scalable analytics and enterprise data integration.
• Built enterprise data ingestion and transformation pipelines across complex industrial system landscapes.
• Developed graph-based representations of product structures and dependencies for analytical reasoning.
• Designed and implemented an agentic AI framework for AI-supported decision workflows.
• Built scalable analytical microservices and integrated reporting through modern BI technologies.
• Coordinated backend, AI, and frontend development across the MYNR platform stack.

• Support to define & execute product strategy & scope out first features
• Mentoring CEO in order to guarantee better product alignment

• Worked as a Senior Developer

• Worked as a Deputy Project Lead

• Technologies: Java (Spring), React

• Environment: OSPlus, MKP

• Developed various standalone tools

• Developed unit and Selenium tests

• Integrated REST APIs

• Full-stack development

• Managed and planned a project to migrate an existing application to a new software stack

• Agile project approach

• Create test cases from specifications and agreements

• Automate own test cases and those from other sources (e.g. bugs, other testers' test cases)

• Manage test cases, check for updates, adjust or discard if needed

• Create test sessions, assign testers, test myself (manual & automated)

• Perform process and user interface tests on T2 premium dryers

• Participate in Scrum meetings (Daily, Sprint Planning, Retrospective)

• Prepare tests, e.g. install software/firmware

• Report bugs, track them, and retest

• Functional tests

• Regression tests

• End-to-end tests

• Load tests

• Automated tests

• Exploratory tests

• Python, pytest, Robot Framework, Selenium (REST API analysis)

• Pandas framework

• PyCharm, GIT

• PTC Windchill RVS, Jira, Confluence

• Skylab, Miele OS Tool / Miele Communication Tool

• DIAdem (TDMS data analysis & visualization)

• Boomerang, Postman, SOAP & REST client

• SCOPI programs via PADS editor (JavaScript, device tests)

• Implementation and updates of various websites for:
• Puder + Consortio
• Feldenkrais Verena Tintelnot
• "Mely Kiyak hat Kunst" at the Maxim Gorki Theater
• Grunwald & Grundwald Architektur und Städtebau
• Wanderkino

• Built a Java OSGi microservice for Stagenet NXCT devices using the Ember+ protocol, enabling reliable communication and centralized control of 150+ devices across the network.
• Designed and implemented real-time monitoring dashboard tracking health statuses of 10,000+ virtual devices using Java OSGi, React and D3.js.
• Developed user authentication and role management directory server that improved security and access control using OpenLDAP.
• Created 10+ reusable React components and optimized performance by 25% using React Profiler.