NoSQL Experts in Berlin

• Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.

• Last projects:

• Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.

• Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.

• Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.

• Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.

• Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:

• Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.

• Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.

• Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.

• Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.

• Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:

• Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.

• Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.

• Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.

• Analysis of complex business processes and end-to-end user journeys in digital product and platform environments
• Gathering, structuring, and prioritizing business and technical requirements (Functional / Non-Functional Requirements)
• Translating business goals into actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Conducting stakeholder interviews, workshops, and reviews with business teams, IT, UX, and management
• Creating and maintaining requirement artifacts (BRD, FRD, user stories, process models, decision papers)
• Ensuring consistency between business needs, technical implementation, and product vision
• Close collaboration with development teams to clarify business questions during implementation
• Support with impact analyses (A/B tests), change requests, and scope management
• Quality assurance of implemented requirements including acceptance criteria and business testing
• Advising on the further development of product strategy and roadmap structure
• Prioritizing backlog items based on business value
• Defining and sharpening product goals, KPIs, MVP definition, and other success metrics
• Evaluating new features, tools, and initiatives from a user and business perspective
• Facilitating decision-making between business, product, and technology
• Supporting go-to-market considerations and product positioning
• Sparring partner for product and stakeholder decisions at management level
• Dashboard creation, data modeling, BI report administration, and data analysis in Power BI

• Lecturer for the GenAI Track at the Master School Institute of Technology
• Development of a full-stack AI application (React + Python/FastAPI) for automated supplier product import with intelligent column and category classification (4-layer hierarchical) including human-in-the-loop validation

• Planning and implementing tailored Odoo ERP solutions to support and optimize specific business processes
• Configuring and customizing Odoo modules according to individual customer requirements, including process automation and data integration
• Training and supporting end users and administrators to ensure full use of Odoo features and to enhance user skills
• Providing ongoing post-implementation support, including troubleshooting, maintenance and updates to adapt to new business requirements
• Migrating data and integrating external applications into Odoo environments for a seamless, unified data landscape
• Analyzing and improving existing Odoo systems to boost efficiency and optimize the user experience

• Developed a Generative AI-based image recommendation engine for an AI video production system
• Implemented automatic image analysis with GPT-4o
• Built semantic vector search using OpenAI embeddings, MongoDB, and OpenSearch
• Tagged and indexed 4 million customer assets
• Redeveloped recommendation engine with a hybrid, balanced keyword and vector search plus filters

• As a Data Specialist, I leveraged analytical expertise to transform raw data into actionable insights, driving strategic decision-making and operational improvements. My role encompassed data interpretation, reporting automation, and cross-functional collaboration, utilizing advanced tools such as Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and Python for comprehensive data analysis.
• Implemented Python scripts to validate and reconcile large datasets, reducing manual errors and improving data reliability.
• Utilized Python (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib/Seaborn) to automate data cleaning, analysis, and visualization, improving efficiency and accuracy in reporting.
• Developed interactive dashboards in Power BI to present key metrics, trends, and performance indicators, facilitating real-time decision-making.
• Designed and executed automated reports using Excel (Pivot Tables, Power Query, VBA) and Power BI, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across departments.
• Data Analysis: Excel (Advanced Pivot Tables, Power Query), Power BI (DAX, Data Modeling), Python (Pandas, NumPy, Visualization Libraries)
• Automation & Reporting: Power BI Dashboards, Excel Macros (VBA), Python Scripting.

• Provide the Price Listing Service Team Price for all cars and vans in different markets
• Adjust market-specific requirements like taxes, government subsidies, campaigns
• Import, synchronize and store new prices for all new and existing cars in Redis datastore
• Support our product and handle on-call duties
• Daily operations, developing new features, bug fixing
• Pair programming, code reviews, mob programming
• Develop POCs for new ideas
• Maintain and extend the backend
• DevOps tasks
• Perform Kubernetes updates
• Adjust and further develop Kubernetes resources
• Develop and customize Helm charts
• Adjust and update ArgoCD
• Maintain, adjust and further develop CI/CD pipelines

• Planning and development of jmberlin.de, the digital platform of the Jewish Museum Berlin, a central place for history, education, and social dialogue

• Bridged business and engineering for enterprise finance clients, designing data products and cloud pipelines in Python, SQL Server, SAP Datasphere, and Tagetik
• Conceived, built, and containerised a Python/FastAPI universal connector that syncs SAP S/4HANA and other SQL/NoSQL sources to Tagetik, deployed on Google Cloud Run and Microsoft Azure, cutting a critical 90-minute data load to approximately 80 seconds (65× faster)
• Architected a medallion-layer SQL Server warehouse ingesting approximately 500 GB/day from 11 ERP instances, automating daily refreshes (full load under 6 minutes) and freeing 20–30 finance staff from days of manual data consolidation
• Led cross-functional workshops to design enterprise EPM target architecture for a leading Southeast-Asian telecom (CAPEX, OPEX, revenue), translating requirements into data-model specifications and integration blueprints now being built by the client’s implementation team
• Delivered selected projects including a consolidated data & reporting warehouse for a global manufacturer (10 k+ employees), NFI reporting for an international management & technology consultancy, and CAPEX/OPEX planning for a Southeast-Asian telecom (20 k+ employees)

Geeks Ltd is a UK-based technology company; WordUp is its AI-driven language-learning product focused on personalized vocabulary learning and intelligent educational experiences.

• Coordinate AI product delivery across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and leadership, translating user needs into scoped initiatives, sequencing work, surfacing blockers, facilitating hand-offs, and communicating progress.
• Own search, recommendation, retrieval, and content-enrichment features end to end, from requirements and architecture through Python/FastAPI implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and rapid iteration.
• Developed low-latency retrieval, ranking, and personalization services using AWS, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, embeddings, and reusable APIs, achieving <1s latency, 22% higher engagement, and 12% higher premium conversion.
• Use AI coding assistants for codebase analysis, scaffolding, refactoring, tests, debugging, and documentation while reviewing every output for correctness, architectural fit, security, maintainability, and user value.
• Represent technical work in planning and stakeholder discussions, gather requirements first-hand, challenge priorities constructively, explain delivery trade-offs, and help teammates make outcome-focused decisions.

• Designed a Merchant SaaS ecosystem for 1000+ vendors, integrating POS, real-time inventory, and QR payments to automate 100% of order and service management workflows.
• Led a team of 12 (Engineers, UI/UX, and QA) with agile processes, sprint planning, and stakeholder alignment to deliver impactful B2B and B2C products.
• Built a privacy-first social platform with zero backend data storage, eliminating server-side data risks and costs and protected 100% user privacy.
• Optimized logistics efficiency by 25% by designing a custom multi-route delivery algorithm, maximizing fleet utilization for B2B and B2C marketplace fulfillment.
• Reduced infrastructure costs by 90% by leading a Firebase-to-Parse migration, eliminating a ₹45K/5-day revenue drain.
• Owned & Launched a self-service Ad-Tech platform with CPC/CPI bidding and automated wallet integration, establishing a scalable revenue stream for the Super App ecosystem.
• Drove a 20% increase in user acquisition by launching high-engagement social reels and a unique "Barter" marketplace, successfully unifying 6+ modules into one Super App.
• Automated 30% of manual KYC workflows by architecting digital verification API integrations, significantly accelerating onboarding for both merchants and delivery partners.

• Designed, implemented & automated cloud infrastructure contributing to 3 projects in a critical role.
• Lead the teams' effort to implement Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI / CD.
• Enabled customers to follow the GitOps approach and deploy their services via ArgoCD.