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senior software engineer & frontend lead
experience
IBMsince 2024
Senior Software Engineer & Frontend Lead
- Led cross-departmental AI initiative from ideation to production deployment, coordinating a globally distributed team across IBM Research, Engineering and senior management, resulting in presentation at IBM Think 2025, patent submission and research paper publication at IAAI 2026
- Designed and implemented AI-assisted dashboard creationusing IBM watsonx, reducing widget creation time by 60% while optimizing LLM token costs via intelligent pre-evaluation strategy
- Served as trusted advisor during critical customer escalation, delivering agreed work items on time through strategic delegation while ensuring quality by end-to-end testing, significantly improving customer satisfaction
- Led a frontend development team for IBM Instana, organizing product managers, designers and engineering teams to extend sampling capabilities across product areas, saving up to $2,000 daily in infrastructure costs during peak periods
- Mentored junior developers and new colleagues fostering collaboration through presentations, architectural RFDs and knowledge transfer sessions
- Discussed and aligned AI agent capabilities with senior technical staff, business leaders and C-level executives, enhancing IBM Instana's strategic AI roadmap
MHP - A Porsche Company2020 - 2023
Senior Consultant
- Developed and delivered enterprise AI chat platform using OpenAI services on Azure, enabling internal knowledge management and improving employee productivity for Porsche and VW
- Acted as a trusted advisor to various customers guiding key architectural decisions and ensuring transparency
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams on API design and backend development using Node.js, GraphQL and Spring framework, ensuring seamless integration across microservices architectures
education
B.S. Business InformaticsKarlsruhe University of Applied Sciences2017-2020
skills
| AI | LLM fundamentals, watsonx, OpenAI, model evaluation & comparison, prompt engineering, guardrails/content filtering, agent orchestration, API integration, RAG, PII handling |
| Programming Languages | TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Kotlin |
| Frameworks | React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL, .NET, Spring, RxJS |
| DESIGN | Figma, Design Systems, UI/UX |
| Databases | PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database |
| Cloud & DevOps | AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3), Azure (Functions, App Services, OpenAI services, Cognitive Search), Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Terraform, Git |
| Other | Observability, microservices, event-driven architecture, agile methodologies |
certifications
IBM Developer Profession Level 2 – Experienced
IBM Leadership Essentials for Aspiring Managers
Certified Professional for Software Architecture – Foundation Level (CPSA-F)
Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
awards & publications
IBM Outstanding Innovation Award
For technical leadership and vision
IBM Entrepreneur Award
For breakthrough AI solutions and productivity improvements
IBM Equity Award
For high performance, potential and skill-mix scarcity
NOVAID: Natural-language Observability Visualization Assistant for ITOps Dashboards
Innovative approach for natural-language driven dashboard population and interaction in the ITOps context in real-time.