Microsoft Azure Experts in Nuremberg

Embedded Analytics & AI-assisted BI

Design and development of an integrated analytics solution based on ASP.NET Core, Power BI Embedded, and LLM services to provide context-based business information.

Development of an AI agent with Function/Tool Calling for the secure orchestration of REST APIs, SQL data sources, and technical services within defined business processes.

Building automated BI workflows including workspace management, deployment processes, and scheduled refresh via the Power BI REST API.

Implementation of secure service-to-service communication with Microsoft Entra ID and Service Principal, and integration into existing enterprise system landscapes.

Technologies: ASP.NET Core, C#/.NET, Power BI Embedded, Power BI REST API, LLM API, AI Agents, Function/Tool Calling, Entra ID

• Independently managed the POS tender process for food service operations in department stores.

• Structured requirements gathering, both functional and technical.

• Created a management-ready specification as a basis for decision-making by management and IT.

• Market overview of relevant POS providers.

• Close coordination with Galeria's IT and business departments.

• IT consulting
• Power Platform & Databricks
• AI software development (custom software)
• Commercial responsibility for the company

• Led remote IT and cybersecurity operations, including secure device deployment, app distribution, compliance monitoring, and endpoint security using Microsoft Intune and Defender for Endpoint.
• Managed Identity and Access Management (IAM) with Microsoft Entra ID, including implementing role-based access control, conditional access, VPN configuration, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Supported and secured Cloud PCs, provided technical remote support, and optimized performance within the Microsoft 365 Business environment.

• Developed KPI dashboards using Power BI and DAX for 4+ business units, improving reporting transparency and strategic decision support.
• Migrated enterprise finance data views into dbt models, implementing modular SQL transformations, version-controlled data pipelines, and automated documentation to create a scalable analytics layer.
• Built dimensional data models in Snowflake for enterprise finance data, enabling scalable forecasting and supporting executive decision-making.
• Designed end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake and SAP HANA, integrating data from 3+ enterprise systems.
• Automated monthly reporting workflows using SQL and Power BI, delivering strong business impact by reducing manual effort by 80%.
• Collaborated with finance stakeholders to translate business requirements into analytical data models, supporting strategic decision-making cycles.
• Delivered ad-hoc financial reports using Power BI, reducing turnaround time by 60%.
• Implemented data validation logic in SQL, resolving 95% of recurring data quality issues.

• The goal of the project is to build a Greenfield FailSafe data center (FSRZ) as an emergency measure in accordance with BSI 200/4 against a cyberattack.
• Recovery of a project that had been running for several years. Re-initialization of the project: adjustment of the project organization, initiation of regular meetings, establishment of project controlling and project reporting, introduction of project risk management and consolidation of project documentation. Establishment of project governance and introduction of decision-making structures based on decision papers. Definition of deliverables and derivation of phase plans and the project plan. Personnel and resource planning. Coordination with “neighboring projects”, initiation of concept development and implementation. Management of the project with 8 subprojects and PMO. Budget planning and controlling (14,8 Mio). Support and coaching of the subprojects in their methodological approach. Coordination with suppliers and support of EU tenders. Coordination and processing of change requests. Coordination with line management regarding the economically viable operation of the FSRZ. Technical support for IT architecture in the areas of zOS, Windows and Linux, networking and IT security, for designing interim operations and extended regular operations for the FSRZ, planning emergency processes and emergency communication internally and externally.

• Software development
• Technical design of software architecture and design (considering functional and non-functional requirements)
• Frontend and Backend
• Refactorings
• Code reviews
• Unit tests
• Automated integration tests
• E2E tests

Global Identity Services (GIS) is the identity provider for the Digital Services Platform (DSP). GIS is responsible for authenticating and authorizing end users and other DSP services by issuing security tokens. This includes:

• Identity management (e.g., user registration, password reset and change, user profiles)
• Management of roles and permissions
• Single Sign-On (SSO) across DSP services
• Management of OAuth resources and terms and conditions

• Built a CRNN model with VGG16 and BiLSTM backbone for text-based CAPTCHA recognition
• Achieved 9.37% character error rate and 68.36% sequence accuracy on validation data
• Expanded data augmentation pipeline with distortions, noise injection, and clutter to improve robustness
• Conducted detailed error analysis on confusable characters (O, Q, D) and proposed error-specific augmentation
• Tech Stack: Python, TensorFlow/Keras, OpenCV, NumPy, Matplotlib

• Acting as the program lead for digital enabled services overseeing projects like Transformation, remote scanning (WeScan), e-commerce, OneGate (budget: ~5mio€/p.a.).
• Develop the transformational strategy & roadmap for a supply & demand platform on ServiceNow, driving harmonization & integration of legacy systems.
• Led cross-functional teams for design and rollout of these digital business models on ServiceNow backend platform.
• Enabled strategic decision-making by combining Azure DevOps transparency structures including using Agile methods like PI Planning, WSJF priorization.
• Acting as the business demand manager & digital counterpart for CS CRM.
• Responsible for the internal project organization & external partners as well as organizational interfaces & dependencies to other departments.
• RFP execution & manage vendors in accordance with contracts and internal requirements.
• Contributed to Project sucCeSs, Northstar and being part of the RaaS Tiger Team & Spryker Customer Advisory Board.

• Tribe Home, Product Area 4 - Customer in Life, Squad Cybertron.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of new requirements for Optimmo, construction financing software.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the JEE application MWS kredit-baufi.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the Wicket Optimmo application.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of kredit-baufi batch programs.
• Migration of kredit-baufi batches to RHEL9.
• CiL SCS Consumer Pacts with Finagle.
• CiL ScS Touch Point Architecture Integration.
• Team size: 10.
• Tools / Frameworks: OpenJDK Java 17, Kotlin 1.6.0, Azure, Jenkins, Stash, JEE, Gitlab, JIRA, Confluence, git, Spring 6.0, Sping Cloud, Spring Data, Hibernate, JPA, JMS, Kafka, Oracle, PL/SQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Maven, REST, JBoss, Intellij IDEA, Wicket 9 and 10, Istio.

• Integrated complex AI-based energy system models into the frontend framework, enabling the visualization of insights for 6+ key clients and maximizing energy utilization.
• Maximized energy efficiency and utilization by architecting the seamless data flow between AI models and the user interface for rapid, actionable reporting.

• Built a custom AI chatbot for an e-commerce client using GPT-4 and LangChain with RAG, reducing customer support ticket volume by 45% and improving response accuracy to 92%.
• Designed and deployed an intelligent document processing system using LlamaIndex, Pinecone, and FastAPI for a FinTech startup, enabling semantic search across 100K+ financial documents.
• Developed multi-agent AI workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph for a marketing agency, automating lead research, content generation, and outreach — saving 20+ hours/week of manual work.
• Created AI-powered automation pipelines using n8n, Make, and Zapier integrated with CRMs (GoHighLevel, HubSpot), reducing manual data entry by 80% for a real estate firm.
• Delivered prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning consulting for multiple clients, optimizing AI model outputs for customer support, content creation, and data extraction use cases.
• Built production-ready REST APIs with Python and FastAPI to serve AI models on AWS and GCP, handling 10K+ daily requests with 99.9% uptime.

• Network segmentation in the production IT environment
• Firewall migrations
• Integration of remote access sites
• Implementation of POCs (Backup, SCADA)
• Working in a multicultural environment
• Technologies used: Panorama & Palo Alto Firewalls, Checkpoint, ServiceNOW, MS Azure Cloud

• Technology update
• Microsoft Azure certification