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Senior Technical Advisor — Mercedes-Benz App & Store Mercedes-Benz AG

• Advised the Mercedes-Benz App & Store organization on the evolution of its software development and quality assurance processes, drawing on thirteen years of platform architecture and delivery responsibility.
• Using coding agents, built a diagnostic tool that brought together data from several operational sources to trace individual transactions through a long chain of services and show where they had stopped.

Technical Lead & Architect — Mercedes-Benz Digital, Data as a Service Mercedes-Benz AG

• Held architecture responsibility for the Mercedes-Benz Developer Platform (developer.mercedes-benz.com): took over a grown API landscape, designed the new API-management platform on Microsoft Azure with monetization capabilities, and replaced the existing systems; in production since 2022.
• Provided technical leadership to the development team and steered external engineering partners through implementation, production rollout and continued platform evolution.
• Designed data products based on anonymized and aggregated vehicle data for external customers, translating customer and business requirements into platform capabilities.

Technical Lead & Architect — Mercedes-Benz Vans IT, Mercedes PRO Mercedes-Benz AG

• Co-led multiple engineering teams across several external vendors while owning technical direction, architecture and delivery for the Microsoft Azure-based backend platform powering Mercedes-Benz Vans connected fleet services.
• Held end-to-end technical and architectural responsibility while leading internal and external engineers through technical direction, prioritization and delivery.
• Scaled the platform and delivery organization from an innovation environment into a large-scale production service.
• Substantially involved in technical hiring and team composition, including 10+ internal engineering hires and staffing decisions across external delivery teams.
• Translated business and product requirements into platform architecture and delivery, working across engineering, suppliers and corporate governance in a complex multi-vendor environment.

Development Engineer — Mercedes-Benz Vans IT Mercedes-Benz AG

• Took technical responsibility for the architecture and implementation of a cloud-based backend platform on Microsoft Azure, coordinating and commissioning external engineering partners.
• Developed the system from an innovation platform for Future Transportation into the production backend for Mercedes PRO fleet-management services.

Development Engineer — R&D, System Architecture & Platforms Mercedes-Benz AG

• Component owner for the Vehicle Homepage backend, including release management, feature-rollout planning and supplier steering.
• Designed and coordinated test automation for Mercedes connect me backend components and worked across quality assurance and backend integration.

Software Engineer Silver Atena GmbH

Engineering services role assigned to Daimler AG.

• Contributed to requirements engineering for diagnostics of a pre-series telematics and communication control unit for the smart electric drive, working from the supplier side.
• Developed pre-series backend components for vehicle communication in C# and initial web frontends in JavaScript.
• Worked across requirements, vehicle interfaces and backend software during the early evolution of connected-vehicle systems.

Diplom-Informatiker (M.Sc. equivalent), Computer ScienceUniversity of Stuttgart

Thesis: Automated Test Case Generation Using Self-Learning Methods for Coverage Analysis of Automotive Embedded Software (using genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization).

German: Native · English: Full professional proficiency

taurhaus / Mesh Multi-Agent Developer Platform

Designed and built a cross-platform desktop platform for supervising persistent Claude Code, Codex and Gemini engineering teams across multiple projects.

• Implemented persistent agent roles, cross-agent communication, task coordination, context recovery, worker-health modelling and session recovery.
• Built an operational layer spanning local project state, Git history, tasks, search, agent processes and multi-agent coordination across Windows/WSL2 and macOS.
• Built largely with the coding agents it manages; architecture, task decomposition and technical decisions stayed with me.
• Practical finding: once the agents were fast enough, my own decisions and attention became the limiting resource.

Rust/Tauri, Svelte, SQLite/Tantivy, tmux

ZigQueen AI-Native Chess Engine

AI-native UCI chess engine with independently verified superhuman playing strength — rated ~3570 Elo on the CCRL Blitz list.

• Developed primarily through coding agents, with human ownership of architecture, experimentation, evaluation and release decisions.
• Every generated change has to survive reproducible testing, benchmarking and self-play; nothing is accepted because it merely looks right.

Zig, from-scratch NNUE, UCI