Experience
Digital Infrastructure Consultant
Vienna, Austria February 2025 - Current
DevOps and AI Consulting
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Empowering engineering teams by leveling up their skills in
Kubernetes and modern infrastructure practices.
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Consulting on the implementation and possibilities of AI in the
workplace to enhance productivity.
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Architecting and building AI-ready websites and applications.
CTO
qibri GmbH, Vienna, Austria
April 2024 - January 2025
Pre-seed startup CTO
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Technical vision and strategy: Sales strategy input, Product
ideation.
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Product development: Spearheaded AI integration, usage monitoring,
and reestablished test/backup functionality.
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Team leadership: Mentoring, removing blockers, tie-breaking
decisions, and enforcing testing discipline.
- Innovation: AI research and integration.
Contract Development
with Bolldorf OG, Vienna, Austria
May 2024 - Current
Custom development of an online tourism ecommerce
application
Tech Lead
Bitmovin GmbH, Vienna, Austria
June 2022 - March 2024
Initiated, designed and built a stable, extensible and
high-performance Web player
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Realized the need for a complementary approach to Player
Technology based on market analysis. Launched the project, led
design and development, and worked with Product to bring it to
market.
See: npmjs.com/package/@bitmovin/player-web-x
- Redesigned the licensing backend for scale.
Engineering Manager
Bitmovin GmbH, Vienna, Austria
February 2019 - May 2022
Oversaw development of the HTML5 web player
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Led a team of 15 engineers, collaborating with Product and
Customer Success to deliver a Web Player serving ~2B views per
month.
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Implemented agile methodologies, accelerating product development
cycles by 50% and improving collaboration.
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Responsible for 90% of the best engineering hires in the team and
technical roadmap input.
Technical Advisor | Architect
Eldora.do, Switzerland
June 2022 - April 2023
Web3 Metaverse
- Defined technical strategy with the executive team.
- Educated contributors on agile methodologies.
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Managed overall system architecture and technology selection.
Lead Engineer
Yelster GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Maintained and enhanced one of the largest Wordpress
installations worldwide (~7k websites)
- Led a diverse, cross-technology team of 7 engineers.
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Supported a team of ~100 webmasters and maintained helper services
in a SOA layout.
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Dropped web server RAM usage by 99.995% using a custom reverse
proxy.
Freelance Software Consultant
Self-employed 2012 - Present
- Developed multiple software projects (web and mobile).
- Customer-oriented approach using innovation to save costs.