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Building, scaling, and consolidating enterprise platforms: that's what I've been brought in to do for the past ten years.

Interim Head of Data & AI at Bahlsen Group · open to consulting

Embedded in engineering teams at Orcrist, E.ON, Allianz, Volkswagen, Bundesdruckerei, Nelly Solutions, and Telefónica. I take over backlog, discovery, and operating rhythm and stay until the team runs on its own.

Most recently at Orcrist, I led a GitOps / IDP platform for law enforcement on GKE — Zero Trust security, FluxCD, policy-as-code. At E.ON, I put AI into production for 8M+ energy customers under KRITIS — 2M+ monthly LLM interactions at 92% accuracy, MLOps pipelines, agentic observability. At Allianz, I built developer self-service with compliance baked in — cloud provisioning from over a year to weeks. At Volkswagen, I built the commerce backbone for five brands — 1M+ users with live pricing and live inventory.

Before that, six years at Capgemini and Erminas, where I learned the fundamentals: software engineering, systems design, and delivery across fintech, retail, insurance, and aerospace. I studied welding engineering, computer science, health economics, and machine learning: research at four universities across Hamburg, Copenhagen, San Diego, and the University of Federal Armed Forces. Work in enough different worlds and you know the patterns.

How I work

Scalability

Platforms outlast the projects that build them. I put self-service infrastructure and golden paths in place so the tenth team onboards as fast as the first.

Reliability

Once a platform is live, people depend on it. I work where the decisions happen, incident calls included, and build the operating rhythm and playbooks with the team. A great platform was never the real goal. A team that runs it without me is.

Security

GDPR, BSI, KRITIS, Gematik. I've shipped under all of them. Compliance shapes the architecture from the first design decision. Treat it as a checklist for the week before launch and it will cost you.

Observability

I measure before I change anything, and I keep measuring after it ships. SLOs the team agreed to, traces that show what the platform is doing in production, a dashboard someone opens every morning.

Tools I work with

AI is part of how I think now, not just what I ship — alongside the product tools I've leaned on for years.

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Figma
  • Linear
  • Notion
  • Miro
  • Slack
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • GitLab
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Helm
  • GitHub Actions
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • New Relic
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Salesforce
  • Attio
  • Twenty
  • HubSpot
  • Adyen
  • Klarna
  • Stripe

Industries

Across industries, the same patterns

Ten years embedded in regulated, large-scale organisations. Different sectors, the same problems underneath: platforms that need to scale, comply, and outlast the project.

See the work
  • Energy
  • Insurance
  • Public sector
  • Telecom
  • Healthtech
  • Automotive
  • Fintech
  • E-commerce

Selected engagements

Orcrist2025 – 2026
GitOps Platform, Law Enforcement

Enterprise GitOps / IDP on GKE for mission-critical law enforcement workloads. Zero Trust security, FluxCD, policy-as-code. Application teams self-serve on paved roads.

30 FTEscross-functional team
E.ON2025
AI in Production & Observability

AI in production for 8M+ energy customers under KRITIS. 2M+ monthly LLM interactions at 92% accuracy. Consolidated six monitoring tools into one OpenTelemetry platform.

8M+energy customers served
Allianz2022 – 2023
Cloud Platform Engineering

Getting a cloud environment took over a year. Built developer self-service with compliance baked in. Same thing now takes weeks.

Self-serveenvironments on demand
Volkswagen2022 – 2023
Commerce Platform

Five brands, five ordering systems, no shared inventory. Built the commerce backbone that unified them. 1M+ users see live pricing and live inventory.

5 brandson unified backbone
Bundesdruckerei2023 – 2024
Sovereign Data & AI Platform

Every ministry was building its own data platform from scratch. Designed one sovereign platform they all share. Production-ready v2.0.

v2.0production-ready
Nelly Solutions2024 – 2025
PVS Integrations, Embedded Finance & AI Foundation

PVS connectors, embedded finance, and AI layer for 1,200+ practices and 2M+ patients. Launched Italy, made Spain ready.

30+PVS systems integrated
Telefónica2023 – 2024
AI Rollout-Manager, Customer Data Platform

Customer data scattered across nine touchpoints. Unified with Adobe Real-Time CDP and launched AI-driven lifecycle journeys.

9 → 1touchpoints unified into one CDP

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