Staff Software Engineer · AI Platform / Applied ML · Munich

Software and AI Architect

Staff-level engineer with hands-on depth in Java/Spring, observability, CI/CD, automation, ML pipelines, and agentic systems.

About

I build reliable platforms across software architecture, engineering, and applied AI.

From exchange APIs and ML workflows to enterprise digital-signage platforms, I build systems that deliver measurable business impact, remain reliable, and stay easy to operate.

AI / ML Track

Applied AI architecture, model and data pipelines, PyTorch-based tooling, and production integration.

Staff Eng Track

Backend services, platform ownership, observability, CI/CD, automation, and business-facing delivery.

Selected work

09/2024 — Present Munich, Germany

Ströer SE & Co. KGaA / Infoscreen GmbH

Senior Application Developer

  • Built full-stack observability with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Reworked the Nagios pipeline, cutting dashboard load time 96%, from about 4 s to 150 ms.
  • Architected operating-times ingestion for 20k displays, removing 240k manual overrides and saving about €3.7M per year.
  • Introduced the company’s first formal GitLab CI/CD pipeline and migrated Aupal to Spring Boot.
10/2023 — 08/2024 Munich, Germany

Technical University of Munich

Research Assistant, Software Development

  • Maintained a Java REST API serving 53k students and staff daily.
  • Automated developer-environment provisioning.
  • Shipped microservice logic and mentored new hires on documentation and coding standards.
11/2023 — 04/2024 Remote

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Research Assistant, Software Development

  • Refactored research analysis notebooks into a maintainable web application.
09/2022 — 07/2023 Germany

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Research Assistant, Applied ML

  • Prepared annotated data and preprocessing pipelines for computer-vision model training.
  • Improved dataset consistency for applied ML workflows.
12/2021 — 03/2024 Germany

Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Research Assistant, Applied ML

  • Architected the RPTU AI Toolkit in PyTorch with sparse 3D CNN workflows on Minkowski Engine.
  • Integrated Blender Python for inference and digital-twin scene generation from LiDAR scans.
04/2016 — 09/2018 Canada

1broker

Backend Developer

  • Built WebSocket orderbook and price-feed delivery for a 70k+ user trading platform.
  • Developed exchange integrations and blockchain wallet management.

Technical focus

AI platform & backend systems

Contact

Software and AI Architect