Software architect and engineer in Vienna. I design and build software that is easy to change, from modernizing ageing systems to new products built with the help of AI agents. Whether you're hiring, an engineer, or a business without a tech team: let's talk.
Maybe you have an idea for an app or online service, or software that slows your business down. I'll listen, explain your options in plain language, and build what you need, so it can grow with you instead of holding you back.
Tell me about your ideaProfessional software engineering since 2021, from leading a team to turning around a legacy platform. Full-stack, cloud-savvy, and early on AI-assisted development.
Ask for my full CVI join as the architect who also writes the code: reviews, modernization, and setting up agentic workflows that a team keeps using after I leave.
Start a technical conversationI started building production software early. From 2021 to 2023, while studying for my bachelor's at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), I led a nine-person engineering team at LeadGen KG. We built products from scratch on ASP.NET, MS SQL, Angular and Azure, and I learned how much good structure matters once a codebase and a team start to grow.
Today I work part-time at Cloudflight, mostly in Kotlin, Java and Spring Boot with Angular and TypeScript on the front. My favourite kind of work is a turnaround: taking a system that has become hard to touch and moving it, step by step, toward a clean domain core, hexagonal boundaries and a modulith, without stopping feature delivery.
I'm equally at home in the infrastructure underneath: Terraform on Azure, Docker and Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and RabbitMQ, and pipelines in GitLab and TeamCity. I write C#, Python and plain HTML/CSS when the job calls for it, and I work in Agile/Scrum teams.
Lately my focus is agentic engineering: using AI agents for planning, refactoring and migrations inside guardrails that keep the architecture intact. Fast is only useful if it stays correct.
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Cloudflight Austria GmbH · Vienna · Part-time
Leading the technical turnaround of a legacy monolith: MariaDB to PostgreSQL and Azure Blob Storage, manual Azure setup to Terraform, and a DDD-centric hexagonal backend moving toward a modulith. Introduced agentic engineering workflows to the team.
LeadGen KG · Ried im Innkreis · Self-employed
Directed a 9-person team, set up agile workflows and code-quality standards, designed systems from scratch, ran the Azure infrastructure and its costs, and built the Azure DevOps pipelines.
Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Advanced Internet Computing, Distributed Systems Engineering, Serverless Computing, Advanced Software Engineering, Advanced Database Systems, Generative AI, Internet of Things.
Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Thesis: "A Portable Reference Architecture for Cloud-Native MLOps in Kubernetes"
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