Magnolia CMS Experts in Germany

The combined experience from recent project years shows that I have two passions: on the one hand, working in and for organizations to develop new, innovative products, ideally as part of a digitalization strategy or business development – as well as the closely related expertise in change and transformation processes as part of holistic organizational consulting. For this purpose, I established the Change Bakery and Product Validators offerings. On the other hand, my heart and mind are driven to find my own products, evaluate markets and potential, and test ideas. I am currently working independently and part-time alongside ongoing projects on a product idea related to mental health and have founded Therapymate.

• Clarification of project objectives, scope and the target business vision for building the AI-based knowledge database.
• Derivation of the initial architecture and implementation strategy for the Zasterbot chatbot, including separation of the MVP and further development stages.
• Development of a target business vision for building a structured knowledge database and integrating a future chatbot.
• Derivation and prioritization of use cases for information retrieval and provision by the chatbot.
• Modeling of data structures and flows for the effective organization of the knowledge database on the Base44 platform.
• Design and implementation of data models for storing and linking relevant information.
• Development of processes for extracting, analyzing and preparing raw data for the knowledge database.
• Ensuring data consistency and quality as the basis for the future chatbot.
• Planning the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for precise and context-specific answers.
• Implementation of functions for analyzing and displaying data from the knowledge database.
• Use of the Base44 platform with JSON Schema-based entities and a flexible permission concept.
• Implementation of Deno functions for backend logic, event processing and connecting external APIs.
• Integration of OpenAI services for initial data analysis.

• Development of automated software tests (unit, integration, regression and end-to-end tests).
• Applied technologies: Playwright, Vitest, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue3, Go, Laravel, REST API, CI/CD, Docker, Git, GitHub, Scrum, Jira.

• Project lead
• Coordinated the rollout of 148 firewalls (Palo Alto) for 74 buildings at over 14 locations in EMEA
• Managed the team (8 employees)
• Communicated with Senior Management (local) and Site Managers (EMEA)
• Ensured work packages were completed on time and to requirements, and formally accepted
• Extensive use of relevant Microsoft tools
• Wrike (project management)

• Responsible for the solution architectures of the eGov solution "e-Akte" for KRITIS authorities of the state of NRW, tailored to the specific needs of the customers, as well as ensuring that these solutions can be operated efficiently and reliably
• Modeling the KRITIS IT architecture (cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and development) using Archimate
• Ensuring IT governance, compliance, data protection, and the establishment of standards in line with the business strategy
• Managing service providers for the eAkte product nscale from Ceyonic
• EAM and LeanIX, documentation of IT systems, interfaces, technologies
• Solution architecture & stakeholder management, including business units & IT teams

Cross-brand design system

Focus: Analysis of the causes of recurring layout deviations in design system components. The cause was the integration of visual regression tests (BackstopJS) into the build and approval process: deviations were not blocked, and reference images were replaced without approval.

Recommendations for a controlled workflow with mandatory approval and test results as a prerequisite for merging. Contributed to the successor system based on Lit/Web Components.

Technologies: Lit, Web Components, SCSS, Gulp, BackstopJS, GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory

• Development of search and recruiting strategies for specialists and executives
• Active sourcing and direct candidate outreach

• Further development and maintenance of a complex sales platform with a focus on digital closing processes, customer portal interactions, and document generation for financial and insurance products
• Development and maintenance of microservices with Spring Boot 3 and Kotlin
• Frontend development with Angular 20 for displaying products, applications, and documents
• Execution of end-to-end tests with Playwright and integration tests with WireMock
• Creation and optimization of Quartz jobs and CronJobs
• Refactoring of the security configuration in a multi-realm Keycloak setup with a custom filter chain, permission evaluator, and factory routing
• Creation of dynamic emails with Thymeleaf
• Extensive error analysis with Application Insights, Log Analytics, and direct SQL debugging
• Introduction of a dynamically controlled security architecture with flexible token handling depending on path and realm
• Stabilization and clear structuring of the closing process for complex product models
• Significantly improved maintainability and readability of the code through modular refactorings
• Higher test stability and depth through combined use of Playwright, WireMock, and integration tests
• Targeted performance optimization through analysis of Hibernate statistics, query tuning, and use of SQL execution plans
• Technologies used: Java 21, Kotlin, Spring Boot 3, Angular, TypeScript, REST API, JSON, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Keycloak, OAuth2, GitHub Actions, Testcontainers, Azure Application Insights, Thymeleaf, Tilt, Microsoft SQL Server

• Led the development and launch of multiple HEMS Apps for energy providers ensuring end-user value and product scalability as white-label solution
• Owned the full product lifecycle: created roadmaps, prioritized features, and managed the product backlog and development process
• Introduced and continuously refined agile methodologies to enhance team fulfillment and improve development efficiency
• Established scalable customer management systems including Help Center setup and implementation of a ticketing/support solution
• Contributed to investor pitches and strategic product positioning to align with market needs and drive business growth

• Testing the SekIDP and related components
• Test design, execution and automation, microservices, GitHub Enterprise, Eclipse, Katalon Test Platform, API Testing, Confluence 8, JIRA/Xray, Draw.io, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, PuTTY, E-Health, Telematik, Gematik standards, EPA, E-Rezept, sektoraler IDP, encryption, XaDES, PaDES, DICOM, HL7, FHIR, IHE, ICD, SSO, SAML/Shibboleth, OAuth, smartcards, JWT, two factor authentication Android and iOS, Wireshark, BrowserStack, Cypress, gRPC, REST, SOAP, WS-Security, Linux Shell, PowerShell, SSH/SSL, Java, Kotlin, Cordova, Gradle, Groovy, Python, TypeScript

• Further development of the web app for creating Zeppelin maintenance contracts by fully covering all contract configurations, automatic calculation of total costs and inspection intervals, SSO login and Jenkins-based deployment with automated tests
• Replacement of a legacy-based calculation service with a modern API integration compliant with corporate IT standards
• Result: complete digitization of the process, functionally superior and deeply integrated into the IT infrastructure

• SEO analysis of the German website and derivation of action areas to improve page ranking and crawl budget
• Concept development for B2B email marketing and lead qualification
• Project management for social media (Meta Business Suite and LinkedIn)
• Marketing (general), social media, keyword research, consulting, online marketing and campaign management

• Led the development of a complex geospatial data platform, engineering an end-to-end system for processing and analyzing high-resolution aerial imagery.
• Engineered a scalable backend responsible for on-the-fly map tile serving and running complex data analysis queries using PostGIS and Python.
• Developed and trained custom computer vision models using Python, PyTorch, and YOLOv8 to perform object detection and segmentation on large-scale datasets.
• Built modern, responsive user interfaces and data visualization dashboards using Next.js, TypeScript, and React.
• Gained practical expertise in geospatial libraries such as GDAL and Rasterio for processing and manipulating raster and vector data.
• Managed the entire project lifecycle, from initial technical architecture and database design to final deployment using Docker.

• Company digitalization
• Technical project manager for app and web projects
• Developed a patient app
• Created travel forms
• Built a webshop based on WordPress and WooCommerce
• Created a community website based on WordPress
• Set up a data warehouse system to store clinic data
• Built an online shop/ecommerce and introduced the complete process (inventory coordination, fulfillment, billing, support)