Design System Experts in Germany

• Project management for customer projects
• Requirements analysis
• Product Owner

• Concept, interaction and UX for XR experiences for the automotive industry
• Optimizing XR experiences
• Building experiences with AI

• Drove key experience streams in the redesign of a large-scale telecommunications e-commerce platform focusing on mobile plan selection, product configuration, and digital contract completion.
• Delivered scalable Figma-based white-label solutions within a multinational Scrum setup to enable efficient multi-brand rollout.

Independent product design practice supporting startups and growing companies with enterprise SaaS, workflow architecture, product strategy, and AI-enabled product development.

• Deliver end-to-end product design for digital products, websites, and SaaS platforms, combining product thinking, UX, visual design, and implementation.
• Apply AI throughout the product lifecycle—from research, synthesis, information architecture, and prototyping to development, SEO, and content strategy.
• Design and build production-ready digital products using AI-assisted workflows, enabling significantly faster iteration and delivery.
• Advise founders and businesses on product positioning, UX strategy, and digital transformation.

Procure Ai builds a procurement platform with tools to optimise purchasing and supplier management, delivering real-time analytics, cost-saving insights, and automated workflows. A common data model integrates and enriches data from multiple ERP and e-procurement systems including Ivalua, SAP, Coupa, WPS, and Jaggaer.

06/2025 – TODAY:

• Architecting and building a new AI-native procurement platform with document intelligence, an agent orchestration layer using Mastra and LLM-based workflow automation across supplier, intake and category management use-cases
• Shipped agentic engineering workflows across the development team, enabling LLM-assisted code generation and review automation, measurably reducing cycle time on repetitive development tasks
• Migrating the Design System from Material UI to shadcn/ui with Tailwind, improving consistency and reducing frontend build overhead
• Staying hands-on across frontend, backend and AI features while the engineering team grew from 10 to 20+ engineers: hiring, onboarding, 1:1s and mentoring

06/2020 – 06/2025:

• Joining as the first engineer after the two founders; shaping platform architecture and product vision from scratch in close collaboration with the CTO, growing the platform to serve 10 enterprise customers
• Leading fullstack feature development on the core procurement platform, with focus on Analytics, Search, and Autonomous Negotiations use-cases: defining MVP scope, aligning technical decisions to customer outcomes, and cutting work that wasn't delivering value
• Challenged a field-based configuration request for Autonomous Negotiations and instead built a node-based rule builder matching how category managers think in conditions and branches; later reused across other workflow and decision configuration use-cases
• Designing and implementing multi-tenant authentication and fine-grained authorisation based on organisational units
• Architecting and building a multi-tenant Admin Application for managing customer installations across environments, covering configuration, feature flags, and i18n
• Creating and maintaining a custom Design System built on Material UI, used across the full product
• Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipeline and full QA suite (linting, unit, integration, and e2e testing)
• Architecting and implementing a multi-environment release process using Helm and Helmfile; owning infrastructure as code across AWS and Azure
• Researching and piloting new tools and frameworks; making build-vs-buy decisions to balance velocity, cost, and long-term maintainability
• Grew the engineering team from 4 to 10+ engineers, mentoring engineers and building a culture of ownership, code review and iterative delivery

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Fastify, GraphQL, GraphQL Codegen, GraphQL Mesh, GraphQL Yoga, Hasura, Apollo Client, REST, CubeJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Typesense, Kafka, Avro, Karapace, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, Helmfile, GitLab CI, Keycloak, Better-Auth, OpenFGA, Nx, Vite, Vitest, Playwright, Testing Library, Storybook, Chromatic, Material UI, shadcn/ui, Tailwind, React Flow, recharts, i18next, Backstage, Grafana, Sentry, Zod, Claude Code, Codex, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK, Vercel AI Elements, AWS, Azure

Medikamendo: E-health platform for digital repeat medication & follow-up prescriptions

• End-to-end implementation: UX conception, UI design, and frontend development for three connected portals (patients, medical practices, pharmacies).
• AI prototyping: Efficient creation of interactive prototypes using Figma and GitHub Copilot.
• Design system: Creation and continuous development of a consistent design system and UI components.
• Corporate design: Maintenance and further development of the consistent brand presence and websites.

With project PRIZMA, DB will modernize its infrastructure on the one hand, and develop a fail-safe IT landscape on the other hand, which can be restored quickly and securely in case of a disaster.

• Capture current architectures of existing systems as well as methodical consulting and development of target architectures
• Deepen and maintain the building plan / target IT landscape
• Implement technical architecture concepts & architecture descriptions
• Implement migration concepts for updating and further developing the platform and information systems
• Assess submitted improvement suggestions as part of the project
• Capability management: identify capability gaps, develop target visions, and support transformation planning within the enterprise architecture.
• Create a compatibility matrix of the components in use and compare dependencies of specific versions
• Create an IT concept for extending the platform with the following topics: hardware and software requirements, security, licensing, high availability, load balancing, backup & recovery, update strategy, monitoring integration, etc.
• Coordinate with business architects as well as technical architects from the cross-functional architecture area of the PRISMA program for the topics (backup, Active Directory, monitoring, Citrix, and business applications ...)
• Status meetings and alignment of project planning with the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager
• Advise the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager in identifying project risks
• Advise the System Architect Engineers in steering the implementation of the concept
• Implement the IT concept
• Document the infrastructure

Label: MS Project, LINUX, Windows, ORACLE, Java, REST, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, UML, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, AZURE, AWS, V-MODEL, Micro Service, VisualStudio, SAP S/4HANA, SCRUM(SAFE), ESB (TIBCO), Python, Innovator, LeanIX (TOGAF), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation, ROBOT, SpringBoot

I served as the Lead Designer for two cross-functional teams at Casavi, a software platform for property managers. Casavi is a central platform for all aspects of digital property management, which streamlines operations and business processes.

SmartTask: The team focuses on ticket management, workflow automation, AI integration, enhancing communication between property managers and their clients.

Customer app/portal: The team is dedicated to fostering community engagement among residents of managed properties. The customer portal in combination with the Casavi app solves the challenges for property and facility managers.

My role spans the full design lifecycle, covering UX/UI design, user research, usability testing, and strategic design planning, across Casavi's web platform, mobile app, and customer portals. Each team comprises around 10 members, including a project manager, designer, developers, and QA testers. I am also responsible for the accessibility assurance of the whole product.

Design unit role: In addition to my core responsibilities, I actively contribute to the development and maintenance of the company's design system and style guide ensuring consistency and scalability across all products. Mentor junior designers is my official and moral responsibility.

• Designed web and mobile interfaces, user flows, and design systems in Figma, Adobe XD, Motif, and Lovable, ensuring WCAG 2.1/2.2 accessibility.
• Conducted UX research and delivered responsive websites and e-commerce on WordPress® and Squarespace®, Webflow®.
• Integrated AI-generated imagery (syntography) and AI video creation into branding, prototypes, and editorial projects.
• Lead visual design, creative direction, and client collaboration to deliver functional, innovative, and visually compelling digital experiences.

Consulting and software for intralogistics automation (AGV/FTS) · Product lines AGVHub (independent AGV project consulting, layout editor) and OneBob (all-in-one business software for small teams)

• Designed and planned the implementation of a supervisory control system for a bakery production line (engineering customer, kick-off workshop 08/2025): three development stages, eight acceptance-ready milestones, batch traceability, AGV integration with RFID, Vue frontend.
• Discovery and requirements discussions with plant logistics and IT teams at industrial customers (life science, aviation, steel, engineering): translated supervisory control, ERP interface, and VDA 5050 requirements into architecture and requirements specification structures.
• Go-to-market automation and analytics: Bing and Meta campaigns, LLM-supported LinkedIn content pipeline, performance dashboards for partners and sales.
• Expert posts on LinkedIn about robotics and intralogistics: around 170,000 impressions across 41 posts (03 to 08/2026).

• 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

Product development for the Miele app – design system, UX, and end-to-end product responsibility.

• Built and expanded the design system – components, design tokens, dev handoff
• Created user flows and customer journeys for core app features (device control, recipes, maintenance)
• Usability testing and iterative UX improvements
• AI-powered personalization – smart program recommendations based on usage behavior
• AI tools in the design workflow: automated accessibility checks, Figma AI, rapid prototyping
• AI-synthesized user research – condensed interviews, feedback, and usability data into structured insights

• Development and optimization of the RTL+ frontend application for SmartTV and set-top box platforms with React and Next.js.
• Key role in the technical coordination of developers within the team and in coordinating implementation.
• Central interface to adjacent teams to simplify development processes and improve cross-team alignment.
• Improved frontend performance, stability, and rendering behavior on low-powered devices in a restricted runtime environment.
• Implemented a frontend testing strategy with Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
• Implemented accessibility improvements according to WCAG 2.2 and WAI-ARIA.
• Integrated Didomi Consent Management as a contribution to increasing ad monetization on streaming platforms.
• Used AI-supported engineering workflows with Cursor for structured implementation, refactoring, and faster problem solving.

Technologies used: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL, Apollo Gateway, Zustand, Tailwind CSS, Styled Components, React Testing Library, Playwright, Jest, HTML5, CSS3, AWS Lambda, EC2, CloudFront, S3, GitLab CI/CD, NX, Cursor