Matthias I.
Principal Engineer / AI Architect
Experience
Jun 2022 - Present
3 years 6 monthsPrincipal Engineer / Technical Architect
Fractional CTO
- Designed large-scale systems and APIs serving thousands of concurrent users.
- Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full AWS migration for stable performance.
- Introduced SLO-based observability, improving reliability and recovery flow.
- Optimised cloud and databases, achieving significant cost and latency reduction.
- Delivered LLM, RAG, and document-automation pipelines adopted in production.
Apr 2021 - May 2024
3 years 2 monthsFounder & CTO (AI/ML Engineer / Lead Engineer)
AureaTauri
- Implemented XGBoost and ensemble models with faster, more accurate inference.
- Built real-time trading pipelines with automated feature engineering.
- Created full ML stack with warehouse, experiments, and CI/CD automation.
- Scaled distributed GPU training 10× faster across AWS and GCP.
- Ensured stable live operations with >50M real-market trading turnover.
Mar 2017 - Dec 2024
7 years 10 monthsCo-Founder & CTO (Principal Engineer / Lead Architect)
GetYourLawyer
- Designed a secure multi-tenant architecture with strong isolation and failover.
- Developed matching and workflow engines for high-volume legal case routing.
- Built AI agents, reducing paralegal workload by 80–90% and speeding turnaround.
- Established CI/CD, testing, and observability enabling >99.9% uptime.
- Mentored engineers, shaped coding standards, and led technical audits.
Feb 2014 - Nov 2018
4 years 10 monthsCTO (Lead Engineer / System Architect)
Staffcloud
- Directed full rewrite to modular multi-tenant SaaS with predictable latency.
- Delivered enterprise APIs and integrations for large-scale deployments.
- Introduced CI/CD and testing automation, cutting releases from weeks to hours.
- Set up and managed a nearshoring engineering hub in Romania.
- Mentored engineers and raised engineering standards company-wide.
Mar 2012 - Feb 2014
2 yearsLead Developer
Rad-Termin.ch
- Designed scalable backend and modular frontend for multi-country networks.
- Built a PHP framework (Zend-inspired) standardising the product suite.
- Optimised DB and caching layers for faster API and page response times.
- Established coding standards and release processes adopted firm-wide.
Jan 2005 - Dec 2012
8 yearsSoftware Engineer
Various
- Created a custom CMS framework that accelerated agency delivery.
- Delivered production systems using PHP, JavaScript, and SQL.
- Sold first commercial app implementation in high school; start of professional career.
Summary
Senior engineer and architect with two decades of experience designing and scaling distributed systems, SaaS platforms, and AI/ML-driven architectures. Brings strong system design leadership and hands-on depth across Python/PHP/JS ecosystems, cloud infrastructure, and data-intensive workloads. Known for driving architectural clarity and raising engineering standards across teams.
- Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full cloud migration to a stable, scalable architecture.
- Designed multi-tenant, high-throughput systems serving thousands of concurrent users.
- Built LLM/RAG and automation pipelines adopted in production across several products.
- Created ML trading infrastructure powering >50M live-market turnover.
- Scaled distributed GPU training systems, achieving 10× faster experimentation cycles.
- Delivered APIs, data models, and platform architecture used across multiple teams.
- Led large-scale rewrites to modern microservice and event-driven architectures.
- Raised engineering standards through design reviews, mentoring, and architectural guidance.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedSpanish
ElementaryFrench
ElementarySerbian
ElementaryEducation
Oct 2007 - Jun 2011
SBW Neue Medien
Swiss Federal VET Diploma, Mediamatics Technician · Mediamatics Technician · Switzerland
Oct 2007 - Jun 2010
SBW
Swiss Federal Vocational Baccalaureate, Information & Communication · Information & Communication · Switzerland
University of Colorado Boulder
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence · Artificial Intelligence · Boulder, United States
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