Technology & startups
Architecture that survives growth
Platform architecture, scaling pains, technical hiring. Venture-backed growth, and what investors look for.
Product · Engineering · Strategy
I build the products
and the systems under them.
The kind that have to hold up in the real world. One senior operator: strategy, architecture, and the actual build. Not a deck, not an agency of juniors.
What I do
Four ways I help, one operator.
From idea to a buildable plan.
01 Shape
Product scoping, architecture, and design. I turn a raw idea, or a system that has drifted, into a concrete plan with the trade-offs made explicit.
Shape your product→The one who ships it.
02 Build
Hands-on product and engineering, solo or embedded in your team. The senior role you need now and cannot hire fast enough.
Get it shipped→When it’s on fire.
03 Fix
Incidents, production down, or a deadline you will not hit on your own. I drop in on short notice, stop the bleeding, and get it over the line.
Put out the fire→When it works but costs you.
04 Sustain
It runs, but too hot, too expensive, or too tangled to evolve. Performance, stability, cost, and cleaning up AI-generated sprawl, with the option to keep me on as a retainer.
Keep it healthy→Not sure which you need? Most engagements start the same way, with a short Diagnostic, then scope from there. See engagements and pricing →
Where I go deep
Industries I know from the inside.
E-mobility & connected vehicles
Firmware that outlives the OEM
Embedded Linux, vehicle telematics, OTA at cellular-realistic sizes. Open-source firmware deployed on real vehicles, every day.
Public sector & civic tech
Boring infrastructure, built right
Federal archives, council records, open data. I run Quellenportal for the Bundesarchiv and MeinBezirk for civic council documents.
Healthcare & life sciences
Regulated software, shipped
Interim CTO and CPO for medical-device companies. EU MDR and FDA submissions. Software as a Medical Device, IEC 62304, ISO 13485.
Retail & e-commerce
Black Friday-grade systems
Performance work, personalisation, platforms rebuilt for 10× traffic. When milliseconds compound, rigorous execution wins.
Finance & insurance
Compliance meets velocity
Legacy modernisation, real-time trading, risk and KYC systems. Innovation that does not put the firm in front of a regulator.
Selected work
A few things I've shipped.
A first conversation costs nothing.
A 30-minute call to understand your situation and whether I'm the right fit. Not a sales call: no deck, no follow-up sequence.