Experience
Aug 2022 - Present
3 years 5 months
- Establishing the new category of Advisor Spend Management
- Pre Seed-Stage startup
- Product development
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
11 months
- Consulting CTO
- Working with startup clients to support with product-market-fit, strategy, technical assessment
- Team building
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
2 years 1 month
- Venture studio for the Aareal Group, Proptech venture development
- Member of the management team
- Created a highly effective team with the objective to build ventures to change how we live and work in the future
- Venture program developed
- Founded and invested in 2 pre-seed ventures and worked with founders to reach product-market fit in an ambitious timeline
- Advisory role, technology and organizational development
- Managing investments (capital increase, convertibles, secondaries)
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year 10 months
- Digitization services for SMEs (Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises)
- Identity, authorization and communication through blockchain (ERC20, Ethereum, Tendermint)
- Closed pre-seed funding in March 2018 at a EUR 3.5M valuation
- Go-live after 90 days
- Responsible for customer and product development, legal, finance
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
4 months
- Defined strategy for a global data lake for the whole group
- Established a new team for data engineering on scale
Jul 2015 - Nov 2017
2 years 5 months
- P2P lending platform
- Managed a team of 30 engineers
- Defined IT strategy for the whole Lendico Group
- Created highly effective teams and a strong engineering culture
- Focus on fast iteration cycles and the scientific method
- Fostered ownership and leadership within the IT department
- Change management including transition to pure SME lender
- Introduced Kubernetes and designed architecture of new core banking systems
- Introduced microservices and organizational design
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
2 years 3 months
- Fritz Payment GmbH is a payment services company offering payment related consulting, software development, and support
- Operated, maintained, and developed a high-volume payment system for one of Germany’s biggest browser games companies
- Developed and published FritzPay (a high-volume middleware stack for payment processing) under an open-source license