Summary
Technology leader and digital infrastructure consultant with over 15 years of experience translating business
strategy into scalable, commercially valuable products and platforms. Career spans hands-on engineering
through CTO, leading engineering, architecture, and DevOps organizations in streaming, cloud-native, and
distributed-systems environments. Modernizes development processes with AI-enabled workflows and agentic
coding practices, and builds strong engineering cultures through data-driven decisions, firm governance of
security, reliability, and technical debt, and the development of technical leaders.
Experience
Digital Infrastructure Consultant
Vienna, Austria February 2025 - Current
DevOps and AI Consulting
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Coach client engineering leaders on team topology, workflow design, and delivery acceleration.
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Level up client teams on Kubernetes, domain-driven architecture, and agentic coding practices.
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Introduce LLM-assisted development workflows and AI-powered tooling that boost engineering productivity.
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Architect and deliver scalable, AI-ready platforms 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 engineering capacity efficiently
across initiatives.
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Agentic coding: Introduced LLM workflows and AI-powered development tools across the engineering
organization, accelerating delivery.
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Team leadership: Mentored emerging technical leaders and established outcome-based goal setting to
resolve delivery blockers.
- Innovation: Drove AI research and integration into the product roadmap.
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, enterprise-ready product platform.
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Instituted metrics- and dashboard-driven decision making, replacing opinion with evidence.
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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Delivered a scalable Web Player serving ~2B views per month by setting
outcome-based goals across teams.
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Implemented agile methodologies to maintain a predictable release cadence,
accelerating product development cycles by 50%.
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Owned recruiting and technical roadmap input, responsible for 90% of the
team's best engineering hires.
Technical Advisor | Architect
Eldora.do, Switzerland
June 2022 - April 2023
Web3 Metaverse — part-time advisory alongside Bitmovin role
- 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 from ~20 GB to ~3 MB with a custom reverse
proxy overhaul, balancing roadmap delivery with tech debt reduction.
Freelance Software Consultant
Self-employed 2012 - Present (alongside full-time roles)
- Developed multiple software projects (web and mobile).
- Customer-oriented approach using innovation to save costs.