About
I create systems for people and companies that guarantee success to perform. Personal and professional.
Started in 1996 as a software developer, turned into a business consultant. Works now with founders and entrepreneurs to build a long-term digital & personal strategy.
My style of work is coined by a unique combination of analytical, knowledge based decision making and and intuitive personal coaching. I do work with human beings, forming stable processes to excel in project environments and cope with transformational experiences.
Projects
For kuuluu Intertactive and the Rockband Linkin Park I was Lead Backend Developer for a high-traffic multi-datacenter 3D Socialgame on Facebook, exclusively built for Linkin Park as part of their social association Music For Relief and Power The World, funded and promoted by the United Nations.
The game was all about saving energy and allowed players to donate money to support Power The World. Also, the band Linkin Park released their first single "A light that never comes" from the album "Recharged" the moment players achieved a certain global community score in the game. That was a music-industry first: releasing a single, triggered by an in-game scoring being reached.
The backend would allow realtime statistics and evaluation of million players playing concurrently all over the world. it contained rounds-processing, player-progress, inventory, achievements, in-game messaging and realtime leaderboards.
ilikemystyle was the first user generated fashion magazine online. It had a great community of fashion-interested people sharing their style with pictures, tagging the elements they wear. Eventually a printed magazine, distributed worldwide followed as well as partnerships with fashion brands and popup-stores.
I maintained and developed the platform over a course of three years, adding a lot of features. I scaled it up and helped it grow horizontally.
Side Projects
CakeBase was a german magazine, focused on the popular MVC Framework CakePHP. I wrote a set of articles on how to learn to code web-applications within CakePHP, that could scale and would meet business requirements.
It also featured a Knowledge-Base, that could be used for looking up classes of the framework and how to make best use of them. I covered topics from coding-style, infrastructure as well as deployment processes and best practices for continous integration and automated test-coverage.
It was built and run with the first CakePHP CMS, named Croogo and I partnered with the creator of that project to expand its functionality.
My interest in collecting and analyzing metrics lead me to the foundation of MeinZähler. It was designed as a community for people, who wanted to keep track of their power-consumption and compare it with similar house-holds.
It had different ways of collecting meter readings. For later i planned to use the platform as an outsourced element for energy companies to collect their customers power meters, but it closed down before that happened.
This meta-web crawler was created as a meta-api layer on top of external sources, whether it be APIs or web-scraping. It has been used in conjunction with CloudContent and was basically the foundation for ShopYeti, for deal scraping and aggregation.
It was very easy to customize, yet powerful to extract and normalize data from various sources into a given data-structure. It would also transmute specific attributes according to a configuration to inflect data per customers needs.
When I bootstrapped CloudContent, it started as a Database-as-a-Service platform. It was one of the very first to utilize a Document-oriented database in a production environment. The feature-set included geo-coding of entries, automated text-analysis, search-engine, status updates and in-database user-management.
Later it allowed scraping and streaming of external objects into the database, that enabled feeding in external data (i.e. social media searches) into the customers storage.
As a unique approach for companies to promote their brand and for customers to acquire items for a very low price, I co-founded a company called SpenderKuss. Companies would donate products and services, which users could bid on. The lowest single bid would win the item and allowed the customer to get that item for a very low price.
Most of the money spent was donated to a good cause, the user could choose. That is, why the companies could legally write-off their donations, opening up another budget for marketing.
Speaking
As an offspring of development for lp-recharge, I've held a couple of talks about automatization of cloud-infrastructure at the largest globally computer-expo, the Cebit.
Work Experience
Tech-lead for a distributed, interdisciplinary development-team development of IoT infrastructure for the German electricity-grid. Automatic deployments of smart-grid monitoring devices to retro-fit existing power substations for in-depth realtime-monitoring of critical infrastructure.
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Cloud-Infrastructure for maintaining and administration
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API-based middleware layers, that sync into various end-systems
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Edge-computing, based on commodity hardware platforms for a diverse IoT rollout
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Introducing security-measurements, Threat-Modelling and leading penetration-testing of edge-devices
Managing Director and Consultant for an International consulting company, with a focus on Startups and tech-companies.
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Digital Strategy
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Automatization
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New work Ethics
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Interdisciplinary process formation
Working as researcher, analyst, consultant, and trainer at one of the most relevant, innovative and independent research agency. Consulting enterprise companies within strategic and technical topics, training their teams and making difficult technology easy to understand.
Giving strategic consultancy, evaluating technical analysis and Enterprise Cloud Transformation guidance.
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Digital Transformation & Leadership – Digital Strategies, Digital Platforms, Digital Culture etc.
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Cloud Computing – Cloud Architecture, Cloud Transformation, Cloud Native Technologies & Cloud Operations etc.
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Agile Software Development – Developer-Trends, DevOps, Digital User Experience etc.
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Internet of Things – Industrial IoT, Digital Twins, Edge Computing etc.
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AI & Machine Learning – Data-driven Business, Algorithms, Machine Learning Services etc.
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Emerging Technologies – Quantum Computing, Mixed Reality, the real values of Blockchain etc.
Chief Information Officer for a green-tech startup for indoor air quality. Global rollout of multi-tenant partner shop-software, including CRM and self-healing cloud hosting.
Overall software architecture of a global IoT platform for highest-grade indoor air quality sensors, measuring and profiling enormous amounts of metrics in near-realtime. Including a patent-pending self-automated actionable system for evaluated metrics.
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multi-tier & multi-datacenter global software cloud
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global communication framework for an international partner-franchise system
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fully-automated CRM, PIM and Shop software on a multi-tier and multi-tenant platform
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Key-Account management for multi-stakeholder developing project for indoor air quality sensors, including Fraunhofer Institute and international companies
CTO and responsible main software architect for a scaling, multi-datacenter gaming backend platform. Included automatic configuration management and automated provisioning of cloud- and bare-metal servers on the softlayer platform.
Software development and building data backends for multiplayer online games, including real-time metrics, leaderboards, achievements, and player data.
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Multi-tenant real-time game-metrics API backend for users, leaderboards, achievements, levels, and messaging
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multi-datacenter infrastructure with automated configuration and provision management system
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backend development for high-traffic games on Facebook
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marketing automatization for interacting between sales and CRM systems
Restructuring and coordinating the development team and processes.
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updating to the latest technology stack
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improving deployment workflow
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changing from svn to git
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lots of different trainings on various tech topics
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introducing new data backend layer
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boost monitoring capabilities
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upgrading team skills for DevOps
Updating processes, infrastructure, and methodology on the development team. Introducing new application framework technology, including automated project setup and customized brand-tenancy.
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concept, build and implement point-of-sale software
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integrate automated project-provision tools
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implement automated tests and continuous integration
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setup and interconnected various wiki-tools, bugtracker and companies authentication systems
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build pre-configured virtual machines for easier developer-onboarding and project deployments
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setup high-scalable infrastructure, including caching layers, firewalls and auto-failover
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improved reporting process on team tasks
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quality assurance and software audits
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trainings & seminars for developers
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software architecture & implementation for a new order-backend system, rolled out globally
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created concepts on interfaces and error-handling for various backend systems
Responsible for web-development in the digital branch, for internet- and telephone banking.
Projects included:
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processing billions of transactions to generate grammar for voice recognition
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developing web-interfaces that directly communicate with host mainframes
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build management and monitoring interfaces, ranging from web-apps to console-tools
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generate templates for easier project-kickoffs within various departments
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create and distribute multimedia interactive compact-discs
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integrate and build automated test-scenarios
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intercommunication between global authentication system and automated test-tools
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improving and enhancing intranet solutions
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improve teams internal tools
Education
German 3 year formal education for software-developer