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.
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
- AI Platform
- Applied AI
- Platform Architecture
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Python
- FastAPI
- TypeScript
- SQL
- Docker
- Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- GitLab CI/CD
- PyTorch
- LLM Orchestration
- AWS
- Agentic Systems