Résumé
Software engineer who designs, ships, and operates core systems — fast, without drama, and with agents in the loop.
- Impact
- ~80% fewer platform complaints; revenue per patient up — identity, access, video platforms
- Location
- Berlin (hybrid, 99% remote)
- Focus
- Systems Architecture · End-to-End Delivery · Agent-Driven Engineering · Reliability & Compliance
- Languages
- German (native) · English (fluent)
- Open To
- Senior/Staff IC roles with direct ownership of outcomes.
Executive Summary
I specialise in creating systemic clarity so delivery stays fast without surprises. My work surfaces risk early, aligns stakeholders on pragmatic trade-offs, and keeps delivery flowing. Engineering decisions follow profiling, telemetry, and metrics over assumptions or static documentation.
I build with agents under written doctrine — skills, rules, and admission gates I maintain in the open. That is how I ship production Rust, Swift, and WASM next to the Ruby and TypeScript that are my daily tools. Systems judgement is the scarce input; the language is not.
Current Work
Engineering Team Lead — Platform
· Berlin (remote‑first)
Own and ship the identity, reliability, and compliance platforms end-to-end.
- Scaled platforms: identity, access, and video systems. ~80% fewer platform-related customer complaints by internal tracking; revenue per patient rose in the same period.
- Full-stack delivery: hands-on work with product squads on UI, API, and data changes so platform upgrades ship alongside customer-facing value.
- Faster CI: 33% wall-clock and 13% billable time gains keep engineers focused and budgets steady.
- Architectural debt payoff: restored the core monolith and cleared the architectural debt that had blocked core systems delivery.
- Compliance: represented Software Development in an initial ISO 27001 certification audit; designed SDLC policies and SOPs; contributed to ISO 27001 and C5 readiness.
- Team: mentor three engineers in performance, observability, and pragmatic design; partner with Security, Product, and Ops on platform priorities and shared risk appetite.
Outside work I ship the html2rss toolkit (Ruby, with an MCP server that exposes it to agents) and moodbar.rs (Rust audio DSP; CLI, iOS/Android, WASM). See my Projects page.
Joined as Senior Software Engineer; promoted into this role in July 2024.
Earlier Work
Before this role, I spent a decade building and modernizing full-stack systems across publishing, civic, and energy domains.
- Ruby Developer (05–07/2022, Remote)
Left during probation after company stack pivot. - Full‑Stack Developer (2017–2022, Berlin)
City portal relaunch; ~50k‑POI search; SERP #1s; CRM migration, ops dashboards. - Backend Developer (2015–2017, Berlin)
Editorial workflow; >$200k creator payouts; high‑traffic templates. - Rails Developer (2015, Berlin)
Farm MVP; mobile‑ready APIs. - Developer (2011–2015, Oldenburg)
Energy dashboards; Handball Bundesliga portal; introduced CI & git flows.
Capabilities
- End-to-end systems delivery — Ruby and TypeScript day to day; Rust, Swift, WASM in open source; not language-bound
- Agent-driven engineering: skills, rules, doctrine, MCP tooling
- Security & compliance (ISO 27001, C5, GDPR)
- Telemetry, performance tuning & CI/CD
- Audio DSP & MIR
Skills Matrix
Education
B.Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik (Business Informatics) — Jade University (2009–2012).
Thesis on modular smart-home software (OSGi). CCNA 1–4.
Service
German Air Force (2007–2009) — IT & Network Support, NATO Quick Response Force.
Asset inventory automation (project Herkules), network ops.
Interested in working together? Get in touch.