Software as a Service Experts in Frankfurt

• Led business development across DACH for a PropTech platform digitising distressed real estate and NPL asset sales — unlocking liquidity for illiquid assets through structured digital bidding processes for brokers, investors and insolvency administrators.

• Developed and managed enterprise relationships with real estate agencies, banks, servicers and PropTech platforms — driving pipeline generation, commercial negotiations and partnership development across Germany and Europe.

• Replaced opaque one-to-one negotiations with transparent multi-bidder environments — supporting distressed real estate sales, NPL/REO asset disposals, portfolio sales and high-demand residential listings with speed, compliance and auditability.

• Freelance consulting for startups, fintechs, SMEs, banks, financial service providers, and established companies on strategic, organizational, and technological topics; focus on analysis, structuring, execution readiness, and stakeholder communication.
• Gathering, structuring, and prioritizing business requirements; translating business goals into actionable IT, process, data, and documentation requirements.
• Designing and improving digital platforms, user journeys, portal structures, information architecture, and data-driven product/content structures; strong fit for customer portals, partner portals, and B2B2C application journeys.
• Analyzing user, reach, search, and platform data to derive product, content, and platform decisions; structuring decision bases for management and delivery teams.
• Using Jira, Confluence, Excel, analytics, and automation tools; working in agile and hybrid delivery environments.

• Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
• Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
• Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
• Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
• Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
• Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
• Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
• Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
• Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control

• End-to-end responsibility for the successful implementation and continuous optimization of Mediatool for strategic media planning (offline & online).
• Development and management of efficient onboarding, configuration, and support processes for international stakeholder teams.
• Leadership of API integrations to connect external systems (e.g., for result tracking and performance measurement).
• Advising departments on tool usage and development, including workshop design, training, and knowledge transfer.
• Establishment and maintenance of comprehensive PMO tracking for all tasks, milestones, and deliverables.
• Prioritization and documentation of requirements, change requests, and bugs in Jira, with transparent communication via Confluence.
• Systematic evaluation of user feedback to derive data-driven optimization measures.
• Responsibility for the monthly Mediatool communication newsletter, including content creation for users and leadership.

• Responsible for the concept, planning, and implementation of the product development of GetMyInvoices 2.0 and the subcomponent InvoiceRails
• Independent work on all aspects of the project, including concept, specification in tickets, and coordination of developers
• Creation, management, and prioritization of tickets to ensure all tasks are completed on time and with high quality
• Carrying out and/or coordinating tests and ensuring the proper implementation of the developed features and functionalities
• Close collaboration with developers to clarify technical requirements and ensure the implementations match the specifications
• Regular reporting on project progress and documentation of key decisions, changes, and risks
• Taking on the subject matter lead for all topics around e-invoicing and Peppol, especially in relation to the InvoiceRails component
• Internal consulting and knowledge sharing on e-invoicing and Peppol for other teams and departments
• Tracking market trends and new developments in e-invoicing and Peppol to continuously adapt the product strategy
• Ensuring the long-term scalability and flexibility of the products for future technical and regulatory changes in the e-invoicing area

• Operational implementation of the growth levers of growing E-Com brands: SEO, GEO, SEA, shop, conversion, and automation of recurring processes.
• Building and managing specialized AI agent systems that work as roles (SEO, content, conversion, Shopify engineering) instead of single prompts.
• Working either as done-for-you execution or as done-with-you setup, where the brand's team can continue working on its own afterward.
• Customers and projects include TeamTex and Original Veddel, Störtebekker, ConstructionX.
• AI workshops and enablement formats for specialist and leadership teams, plus the joint webinar series AI Vibe Club with Xentral.

• Platform established and running stably; deliberately reducing my involvement to refocus on an engineering mandate in the financial sector.
• Built an own SaaS learning platform from the ground up and scaled it to over 20,000 users (over 6,000 courses sold, B2C and B2B); end-to-end ownership from development through infrastructure to operations.
• Built a lab environment that provisions an isolated Linux container per user (Docker, Traefik, Go), including automatic provisioning and a dedicated subdomain per user.
• Integrated LLM features into the product and accelerated development end-to-end with AI-assisted workflows (Claude Code, Codex); CI/CD with automated tests.

• Enterprise-grade multi-agent AI orchestration platform built with Go and Kubernetes for scalable, secure agent coordination in cloud-native environments.
• Multi-agent orchestration with intelligent workload distribution and dynamic scaling.
• Cloud-native architecture with Kubernetes deployment and horizontal auto-scaling.
• Real-time coordination with sub-100ms agent communication using Go channels.
• Enterprise security with zero-trust architecture, RBAC, and comprehensive audit trails.
• Visual workflow engine with monitoring, observability, and API gateway integration.
• Technologies: Go, Kubernetes, ArangoDB, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana.

Helping startups understand their users, turning ideas into products that reach PMF and are worth scaling. Partnering with agencies who need product expertise for specific projects.

• Established usability best practices that minimized design debt in early-stage product development.
• Supporting agencies as a senior product design partner for client projects.

• Management and optimization of a portfolio of about 100 projects (launches, in-field solutions, data & analytics, digital solutions, digital products)
• Optimization of the existing project standard (playbook) and alignment with the European and global organization (USA)
• Coaching project managers on setup, planning, cooperation with business, GDPR, GxP, data security and launches
• Preparing projects for works council information and project closeout communication
• Optimization of resource management (tracking, allocation, prioritization)
• Taking over individual project leads (off-/transboarding, event management, checking whether WhatsApp is allowed on a business smartphone)
• Supporting the hiring of external project managers
• Optimization of meeting structure, project controlling (KPIs), change and demand management
• Optimization of risk, issue, dependency and quality management and support during internal audits (GxP)
• Optimization of the portfolio steering tool (Smartsheet) on national, European and global level
• Design and implementation of a Business Value Complexity Scoring
• Building a strategic PMO with a sister department and optimizing cross-functional teams
• Reporting, communication and escalation at management level
• Leadership coaching for several future leaders (short-time assignment)
• Development of the concepts "PPM as a Service" and "Internal Customer Approach"
• Development and review of a concept "AI Data Governance" including roles and processes
• Selection and onboarding of the successor

Part-time position in a federally funded research project

• Hands-on solution architect
• Digital product development - SaaS
• Strategic consulting on software architecture, cloud migration, and DevOps processes
• Coaching SE developers and IT architects

• Concept and UI design for cloud-based banking platforms and SaaS loan process automation, including AI-supported document validation.
• UX optimization of the loan application flow, expansion of the design system, and building a scalable white-label solution.