Experience
Digital Infrastructure Consultant
Vienna, Austria February 2025 - Current
DevOps and AI Consulting
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Coach and advise client engineering leaders on team management, structuring workflows to foster aligned
autonomy and accelerate delivery.
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Empowering engineering teams by leveling up their skills in
Kubernetes, mapping domains, and fostering agentic coding practices.
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Implementing LLM workflows that drive the adoption of AI-powered
development tools to boost engineering productivity and innovation.
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Architecting and building scalable, AI-ready solutions tailored
to business customers.
CTO
qibri GmbH, Vienna, Austria
April 2024 - January 2025
Pre-seed startup CTO
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Technical vision and strategy: Led product ideation and structured
teams to manage engineering capacity efficiently across initiatives.
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Fostered agentic coding practices: Implemented LLM workflows driving
the adoption of AI-powered development tools, boosting engineering
productivity and innovation.
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Team leadership: Mentored emerging technical leaders, fostering
aligned autonomy and setting outcome-based goals to resolve blockers.
- Innovation: AI research and integration.
Tech Lead
Bitmovin GmbH, Vienna, Austria
June 2022 - March 2024
Architected scalable video tech infrastructure built for
business customers
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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
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Redesigned the licensing backend as a scalable product solution
built for enterprise business customers.
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Championed strong data awareness, utilizing metrics and dashboards to make decisions from evidence rather
than opinions
Engineering Manager
Bitmovin GmbH, Vienna, Austria
February 2019 - May 2022
Oversaw development of the HTML5 web player
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Structured teams and mentored other leaders, managing engineering capacity
to support up to 15 engineers across 2 teams.
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Fostered aligned autonomy by setting outcome-based goals, delivering
a scalable Web Player serving ~2B views per month.
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Implemented agile methodologies to maintain a predictable release cadence,
accelerating product development cycles by 50%.
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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)
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Led a diverse, cross-technology team with a strong delivery mindset,
demonstrating that perfect is the enemy of done.
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Supported a team of ~100 webmasters and maintained helper services
in a scalable SOA layout.
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Dropped web server RAM usage by 99.995% with a custom reverse proxy
overhaul, balancing roadmap delivery with tech debt reduction.
Freelance Software Consultant
Self-employed 2012 - Present
- Developed multiple software projects (web and mobile).
- Customer-oriented approach using innovation to save costs.