Feature Flags Experts in Germany

• Built a JTBD-based prioritization framework for 3,000+ accumulated feature requests, identified 27 broker jobs, validated 8 through 25 user interviews, and used the resulting job map as a live prioritization filter for all incoming channels (Upvoty, CSAT, consulting tickets).
• Responsible for the Scout24 Lighthouse initiative: Document Intelligence with full RAG architecture (semantic chunking, bge-m3 embeddings, pgvector, BM25+Dense hybrid retrieval).
• Reduced lead time of customer feature requests to 3.1 days through code analysis, ticket specification, and independent implementation using a coding agent (Codex).
• Developed an LLM-based support agent (GPT-4o mini, Codex-generated merge requests) that reduced 3rd-level escalations from 40% to 5% of all monthly tickets.
• Integrated six partners through technical coordination, specification, backlog and release management, and led seven full stack developers.
• Eliminated regulatory exposure for brokers in six weeks through risk analysis (BGH ruling on distance selling/GDPR), new audit features, and coordination with legal and data protection officers.

• Developed and implemented organization-wide discovery framework based on Ulwick’s Outcome-Driven Innovation; enabled 7 Product Owners to systematically identify and quantify unrealized value through shared outcome language and opportunity scoring methodology
• Transformed Product Owner role from backlog clerks to strategic experimenters; established dedicated time budget for autonomous hypothesis testing and discovery activities
• Rebuilt customer journey maps to start at actual user need (tool selection phase) instead of platform entry point; eliminated manual data aggregation work previously done by project teams
• Implemented OKR framework across 4 product teams; defined quarterly objectives with measurable key results (e.g., 40% reduction in manual integration effort, self-service adoption increase)
• Unified 3 separate platform roadmaps through cross-team dependency mapping and shared service agreements
• Supported enterprise sales cycle with ROI modeling and technical due diligence for automotive and defense customers

• Complete platform upgrade from Expo 53 to Expo 54, considering project-critical breaking changes
• Version bump of react-native 0.79.5 to 0.81.5 including consolidation, updating, and reinstalling all project-related dependencies (JavaScript, native modules, build tools, TypeScript tooling)
• Identifying and fixing incompatible libraries as well as adjusting iOS and Android configurations (Gradle, Pods, build scripts)
• Enabling and integrating the React Native New Architecture (TurboModules & Fabric) including adjusting native interfaces, build configurations, and feature flags
• Cleaning up technical debt and harmonizing platform-specific implementations to ensure long-term maintainability
• Stabilizing the project through detailed debugging, regression analysis, and adjustments to the tooling chain (Metro, Babel, TypeScript)
• Conducting comprehensive test cycles (unit, E2E, device tests) and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for Bitrise and GitLab
• Ensuring stable releases for Android & iOS in conjunction with analytics, engagement, and monitoring systems

• Took on architecture and development ownership of a scalable web platform (Angular 18 / NestJS / AWS)
• Designed and implemented a zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline to ensure uninterrupted deployments
• Planned and migrated existing legacy features using feature toggles
• Outcome: Successful platform modernization and a noticeably faster development pace

• Architecture and implementation of a fully digitalized closing flow for managing securities contracts within the DVAG infrastructure. The platform aims for maximum user-friendliness, modular extensibility and compliant handling of sensitive data.

• Implementation of a reactive UI structure with a focus on user guidance & accessibility.

• Dynamic control of form and closing processes including validation logic.

• Reactive state management via SignalStore (signals + selective effects).

• UX optimization through adaptive components and Playwright-based UI tests.

• Backend modularization to connect existing sales and contract logic.

• API stability and DTO design according to Clean Architecture principles.

• Collaboration with domain teams to define technical contracts and service boundaries.

• Management with GitHub.

• Unit tests with Jest, E2E tests with Playwright.

• Code reviews, CI-integrated test execution, iterative refactorings.

• Ensuring high coverage and UI stability in the closing flow.

• Technologies: Angular 18, RxJS, SignalStore, HTML5, SCSS, Spring Boot, Kotlin, REST, OAuth2, Jest, Playwright, Clean Architecture.

• Establishing Identity & Directory Management as a new (split-off) team & product within the IAM cluster.
• Leading the “Identity & Directory Management” product (8 people) as Product Owner.
• Concept for ‘Digital Identities’, i.e. IDs with n users/accounts and strategy for a modernized product offering.
• Upgrading APIs, migrating to a containerized infrastructure, rolling out international markets & standardized solutions across the REWE enterprise group.
• Tech: OpenText™ (NetIQ) eDirectory & Identity Manager, LDAP, SAP HR/HCM, Docker/Kubernetes/Podman, REST APIs, Microsoft Active Directory & Entra ID, postgresDB, Keycloak, Ansible, Cyberark (PAM), Apache Kafka, Jira, Confluence, Miro.

Further development of a software solution for managing test requests and test notifications according to §106d SGB V for the Hamburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

• Developed numerous features, performance optimizations, refactoring, error analysis
• Refactored the dev container setup
• Optimized the GitLab CI build pipeline
• Contributed optimizations to the team workflow

• Co-authored enterprise cloud strategy including security and governance frameworks for 5 subsidiaries, and implemented part of the governance automation.
• Performed regular cloud cost optimization reviews across 10 teams resulting in ~20% cost reduction.
• Led the technology selection for the migration of in-house CIAM for 25M+ accounts to a SaaS solution, and worked with the product team through the migration.
• Supervised the technology selection and designed the architecture and delivery pipelines for the multi-tenant digital news and sports publishing platform, enabling ~250 editors within ~6 months of development start.
• Led the implementation of a multi-brand design system from idea and technical concept to implementation and rollout, enabling rapid UI prototyping for new products in a matter of hours.
• Managed a team of 4 architects and accelerated the professional growth of team members.
• Technologies: AWS cloud, Microservices, Docker, Python, Kafka, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, Gitlab CI, Visual Studio Code, git.

Led backend engineering across core domains (main backend, notifications, medical knowledge base, results processing), owning delivery quality, team growth, and engineering standards.

Signature Outcomes

Shipped a flexible, no-code membership platform (pricing, packages, duration), enabling commercial changes without engineering involvement and keeping membership tiers coherent over time.

Built a high-impact backend team through mentorship, coaching engineers into independent contributors and establishing onboarding documentation that enabled fast ramp-up.

Scaled the team from 2 → 5 engineers while maintaining delivery cadence and code quality; owned hiring pipelines and onboarding.

Partnered closely with Product during design to assess feasibility, sequence work, and make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, tech debt, and long-term maintainability.

Institutionalized testing and simplicity as defaults, enforcing high test coverage and a “simple-first” architecture approach.

Tech & Practices

Stack: Node.js (TypeScript), Express, PostgreSQL; microservices (Node & Go); event-driven async jobs.

Practices: Testing as a release gate, lightweight design reviews, iterative delivery, documentation-driven onboarding.

Compliance & Security: Led implementation of Privacy Officer recommendations (GDPR and German healthcare regulations).

• Developed a multi-agent system connecting LangChain ZeroShotAgent with custom tools for live APIs and task automation.
• Built a FastAPI backend for Jira ticket creation, triage and assignment, auto classification of severity, deduplication, SLA setup, on-call rotation, bidirectional sync of status and comments.
• Added Slack alerts and RAG knowledge lookup with FAISS or pgvector to suggest fixes, optional PagerDuty escalation on policy breaches.
• Orchestrated agents with a router and a Celery plus Redis queue, retries with backoff, rate limits, idempotency keys, human in the loop approvals.
• Implemented guardrails and observability, prompt versioning, token and cost budgets, PII redaction, tool-use allowlists, timeouts, OpenTelemetry tracing, dashboards for accuracy and latency, deployed on Kubernetes with feature flags and canary rollouts.

• Analysis and optimization of the online shop to increase conversion rate
• Design and development of A/B tests (with Kameleoon SDK and Feature Flags)
• Implementation of UX/front-end adjustments with React
• Collaboration with Marketing and Product

• Spearheaded general planning, prioritization, feature development and performance improvements of the Ruby on Rails e-commerce application; introduced continuous application profiling (monitoring for N+1s, p95s exceeding the threshold) and profiling memory for unexpected slowness, improved P95 latency from ~800ms to 500ms of the slowest endpoints.
• Introduced StatsD and Grafana dashboard to monitor and correlate business and developer metrics for early developer intervention, reducing the response time for broken vendor feeds from weeks to days.
• Integrated generative AI for improving product curation workflow, which improved curation time from hours to minutes.
• Introduced data warehousing using GCP as a datastore and Metabase as a visualizing tool, enabling teams to migrate from complex Excel files to robust SQL-backed dashboards.
• Designed and implemented standard webhooks and Shopify app for faster onboarding of product suppliers into the platform, which reduced vendor onboarding from weeks to hours.
• Deployed the website to Austria, Italy, Netherlands, France and Belgium regions.
• Translated the website to English and automated the curation process to translate to English, reducing curation time from 10 to 3 minutes.