As a consultant for the boutique agency Zeile7, I delivered tailored solutions to various of their clients. This includes helping companies with their IT strategies, for example the migration of dektop software into the cloud or creating a big data enabled cloud architecture. It also includes doing trainings and workshops, to help them with upskilling their own engineers. Furthermore, I played a key role in assisting clients with their staffing requirements, optimizing their recruitment processes, and crafting efficient recruiting funnels. This involved end-to-end consulting for the whole process, spanning from refining job descriptions to conducting interviews and implementing coding challenges.

As the Chief Architect at Sparkasse Bremen's FinTech subsidiary, I spearheaded the development of new groundbreaking products in the realm of real estate finance. We successfully launched various FinTech products, where I led the development of a new platform catering to all the different real estate needs, along with crafting the "effi" app, with a unique take on the mortgage financing process. We also implemented multiple lean startup methods to explore potential products, employing extensive tracking and marketing tools for validation. I managed the ongoing development, maintenance, and seamless operation of existing applications, notably Manni (personal finance app) and Baufi (mortgage financing app).

Welcome to The Innovation Engineer Podcast, your favorite place for picking brains of your favorite engineers. So grab your nerdiest mug, fill it with your beverage of choice and enjoy. If you're a Developer, an Engineering Manager, Tech Decision Maker or anyone interested in the world of engineering and innovation - this is your place. Each episode we ask ourselves the latest question coming from the wonderful world of technology.

As the host and producer of The Innovation Engineer Podcast, I orchestrate the entire production process. Video and audio production is a hobby of mine and I love to learn how to work with cameras, lights and microphones. That's why I put a lot of effort into creating all the assets myself and producing every aspect of the podcast by hand and why we use 4k cameras and do not rely on additional software or take shortcuts.

Consulting and conception for a new sports streaming service, including authentication with Auth0, payment with Stripe, OTT with deltatre and the overall architecture.

Responsible for scaling and developing qr-code-generator.com, and thus helping to increase revenue from 5M$ to 70M$. Migrating and improving the former PHP monolith with a single MySQL database, with manual bash deployment, version control with Subversion, manually installed Apache directly on EC2, without monitoring and without a single test to a modern architecture. Introduction of modern engineering best practices, like Trunk Based Development, Continous Integration. Introduction of Terraform, Docker, Nginx, OpenId Connect via AWS Cognito, ChatOps, Monitoring, Unit Tests, End-to-End tests with Cypress.js. Educating and training of all developers. Hiring new Engineers, Tech Leads and a new VP of Engineering.

I accompanied the acquisition, migration and modernization of qr-code-monkey.com and qrcode.studio, further allowing the scaling and growth of both. I also supported the due diligence for the acquisition of qr-code-generator.com through bitly and lead the integration of it into the bitly platform.

Building next-level media products and driving a new digital future within Germanys' biggest content producer. Working on media aggregation, recommendation, and premium content over all media types, across all brands from Bertelsmann. We built a remote-first tech-company right before Covid-19 kicked in. The outcome was a highly effective organisation in times that others were struggling. My role included being the overall architect, coordinator, hiring manager and company builder.

Leading the innovation hub of Axel Springer together with the managing director with multiple teams. Driving initiatives to transform the whole enterprise into a tech company. Developing the strategy for organic growth for Axel Springer, helping with the IT-Strategy for various business units and working on multiple products across different Axel Springer units. Representative for the IAB Tech Lab, worked on forming international ad tech standards. Speaker on both internal and external events.

Development and conception of various products and projects across multiple business units and brands. Inhouse consulting and evaluation of external projects, including performing due diligences and workshops. Organizational development, business development, recruiting, mentoring and training of new employees, colleagues and apprentices. Marketing and project acquisition, including product management and presales engineering.

User generated content in real-time will have multiple touchpoints for offshoring. Organically grow the holistic world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment

Working on automation of opencast mining systems and development of software for control systems.