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    Nine years, five hats.

    I've worked as first engineer, team lead, co-founder and CTO, consultant, and freelancer. Here is the full history, and what I built at each stop.

    • First engineerAI startup, Munich
    • Team leadIoT scale-up
    • Co-founder & CTOOwn startup, Munich
    • ConsultantEnterprise cloud & data
    • FreelancerIndependent since 2021

    Engagements

    2026 — now

    AI Technical AdvisorDialpad

    Advising Dialpad's Telephony Engineering division on agentic-first software engineering: designing and delivering an enablement program for multiple development teams, building reusable workflows including playbooks and agent scripts for plan-implement-test-review loops, and coaching hands-on through workshops and pair programming on agentic coding tools and context management for large-scale codebases.

    Claude Code · MCP · RAG · CI/CD agent loops

    2025 — 26

    Senior AI, Data & Cloud EngineerOEW Breitband

    Architected the data integration and intelligent document search platform for Germany's government-subsidised fibre expansion in Baden-Württemberg: ETL pipelines aggregating CRM and ERP data into a medallion-architecture data lake, event-driven serverless address validation, and an AI search engine on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with OpenSearch Serverless and reranking.

    AWS Bedrock · OpenSearch · Glue · EventBridge · CDK

    2024 — 25

    Senior AI, Data & Cloud EngineerBoehringer Ingelheim

    Built an enterprise AI agent platform on RAG architecture for clinical data insights: CI/CD pipelines for LLM applications, comprehensive observability that made agents reliable enough for pharmaceutical environments, and scalable AI workflows with orchestration tuned for enterprise data sources.

    LangGraph · Bedrock · LangSmith · LangFuse · Terraform

    2024

    Senior Cloud, Data & DevOps EngineerMarc O'Polo

    Optimised the Data Lakehouse built on Airflow, Spark and Dremio - substantially better query performance at lower cost - and hardened the platform with Terraform automation, Kubernetes monitoring and autoscaling, and redesigned ETL pipelines for the retail analytics that depend on them.

    EKS · Airflow · Spark · Dremio · Delta Lake

    2023 — 24

    Senior AI, Cloud & Data EngineerBoehringer Ingelheim

    Developed a clinical trial analytics platform that cut operational decision time: Python microservices for complex trial data, AWS CDK infrastructure automation, efficient ETL pipelines - and specialised LLMs trained and deployed to answer complex clinical queries.

    Azure OpenAI · LangChain · FastAPI · Glue · PySpark

    2022 — 23

    Senior Cloud, Data & DevOps EngineerHubert Burda Media

    Engineered the company-wide identity and data management platform unifying access for millions of users across business units: event-driven microservices processing high-volume transactions at low latency, a revamped Databricks and Delta Lake data architecture, and streaming pipelines enabling near real-time decisions.

    Kafka · Databricks · EKS · DynamoDB · GraphQL

    2021 — 22

    Senior AI, Data & Cloud EngineerPorsche

    Designed cloud-native infrastructure scaling to connected vehicles at high availability: real-time data processing for customer insights, machine learning pipelines improving preference prediction, and infrastructure-as-code that sped up deployment cycles under the SAFe framework.

    SageMaker · Step Functions · EMR · Glue · CDK

    2021

    Cloud, Data & DevOps EngineerClimeworks

    Built a full-stack IoT data platform processing environmental metrics from carbon-capture plants: real-time time-series analytics on Azure Databricks, a low-code annotation interface for ML labelling, and automated pipelines measuring capture performance precisely.

    Azure IoT · Databricks · Event Hub · PostgreSQL

    2020 — 21

    Senior Cloud, Data & DevOps EngineerMarc O'Polo

    Created the blueprint infrastructure-as-code architecture for the on-premise-to-AWS migration: secure multi-account network design, automated serverless deployments with CI/CD, and DevOps practices that lifted developer productivity while cutting infrastructure cost.

    Transit Gateway · Terraform · Terragrunt · EventBridge

    2019 — 20

    Co-founder & CTOWemolo

    Co-founded and led technical development of an IoT mobility platform: a serverless AWS backend scaling automatically with traffic, machine learning for vehicle detection accuracy, and an edge computing design that enabled real-time analytics on constrained bandwidth. The company has since scaled to 250 people across five countries.

    Lambda · Fargate · TensorFlow · Nvidia Jetson · C++

    2018 — 19

    Head of Embedded SystemsParkHere

    Led development of an AI-powered authentication system for parking facilities and an IoT radar system for real-time parking-space detection; as team lead, introduced agile development processes across the embedded team.

    ANPR · YOLO · LoRaWAN · ARM Cortex · AWS IoT

    2017 — 18

    ML & Computer Vision EngineerBleenco

    First engineer: built a computer vision framework for industrial safety - AI models detecting human states and behaviors in real-world environments, with deep learning inference optimised for low-power edge devices.

    TensorFlow · CNN/RNN · OpenCV · CUDA · TensorRT