About

I trained as an architect. Then I spent 25 years designing and building software, teams, and organizations. The thread connecting all of it: making complex things work for people.

I started at Amazon during its European expansion, then spent 14 years at 1&1 building products for 30 million users. From there: enterprise platforms at censhare, industrial tools at KUKA and BMW, PropTech at casavi. Always B2B, always complex workflows, always the kind of products where "intuitive" means something different than consumer apps.

Along the way I've led teams of up to 16 people, built design systems with 100+ components, run international research programs, and driven product strategy alongside C-level leadership. I've also redesigned how teams work together: org structures, decision-making patterns, the invisible friction that keeps good people from shipping good work. Service design at the organizational scale.

What changed recently: I build with AI every day. This website, a community platform (Next.js + Sanity CMS), a structural engineering tool, automation pipelines. All built with Claude Code as my development partner. I keep the tool stack lean: curiosity, human-centric thinking, and one good AI tool go further than a shelf full of frameworks.

That hands-on practice matters. I know where AI accelerates real work (prototyping, code generation, pattern analysis) and where it generates confident nonsense (strategic decisions, qualitative research, anything requiring taste). That experience informs how I think about AI-augmented products and teams.

I never stopped making things myself. The leadership grew from the craft, not the other way around. I'm a player-coach: I can work at the C-level table and I can ship the prototype that night.

Based in Munich. Open to permanent roles, consulting, or embedded project work.