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Career Transition Grant · BlueDot ImpactOct 2026 – nowFunded transition into AI safety work.
BlueDot Impact is a non-profit talent accelerator that helps professionals move into careers working on safe and beneficial AI. It has trained more than 10,000 people since 2022.
- Building context in the field, focusing on power concentration and on loss of control involving open-weight models.
- Looking for where I can contribute most.
AI Policy Working Group · Volt EuropaJul 2026 – nowPolicy work on the economic impacts and risks of AI.
Volt is a pan-European political party active in more than 30 countries, with five Members of the European Parliament.
- Worked on an internal policy brief on the economic impacts of AI.
- Contributed to the wider discussion within Volt on AI timelines and risk assessment.
Venture Scout · First Momentum VenturesJul 2026 – nowScouting promising start-ups and founders for an early-stage deep-tech fund.
First Momentum started as the first student-run venture capital fund in the DACH region and has grown into a first-round fund specialising in deep and industrial tech, with more than 50 investments.
- Identify promising start-ups and founders.
- Represent First Momentum in the local start-up ecosystem.
Engineering
Staff Software Engineer · KplerJul 2024 – Sep 2026Real-time data systems, technical leadership and three direct reports.
Kpler provides real-time data and analytics on global commodity trade and shipping, tracking more than 350,000 vessels a day for energy companies, traders, financial institutions and governments.
Geometry Events taskforce and team
- Managed a taskforce working on a critical cross-department service directly overseen by the CTO.
- Built a stream-processing system for real-time geospatial analysis at scale (330M+ events, 100 GB per day).
- Managed three direct reports.
- Advocated for a data mesh architecture and the adoption of a data catalogue.
- Provided technical due diligence for an acquisition.
Cargo Models team
- Led the modernisation of a complex data-processing monolith that calculates global trade flows and drives the majority of the company’s revenue.
- Supported data scientists in adopting more mature engineering practices.
- Spearheaded a cross-department initiative on data unification and governance in an engineering org of 200+ people.
- Guided the engineering department’s strategic direction as part of the architecture steering group.
Staff Software Engineer · raicoonOct 2023 – Jul 2024Led the redesign of a real-time microservices architecture.
raicoon builds an AI-driven operations centre for solar plants that detects faults in real time and decides how to resolve them, for asset owners, asset managers and service providers.
- Initiated and led the redesign of a microservices architecture for real-time data processing across four teams.
- Educated and mentored other engineers.
- Led technology evaluation and selection.
- Fixed critical bugs across multiple services and teams.
Senior Data Engineer · Alpas AIJan 2022 – Sep 2023Built the data platform, BI stack and search services, and helped grow the team from 2 to 8.
Alpas is a Berlin-based AI sourcing platform that helps manufacturing companies find and evaluate suppliers of parts and engineering services.
Platform and data
- Led the design and development of a distributed web-scraping platform.
- Led the development of an internal data product.
- Built an end-to-end BI platform.
- Designed and built an internal search service and several APIs exposing data services to other teams.
- Managed the internal cloud infrastructure and led technology selection.
Team and delivery
- Managed and supported hiring, helping the team grow from 2 to 8 members (100+ interviews).
- Mentored and onboarded members of the data team.
- Facilitated the planning and delivery of an interdisciplinary project with seven contributors.
Senior Data Engineer · Amann GirrbachJul 2021 – Dec 2021Built a modern data stack for a manufacturer of dental milling machines.
Amann Girrbach makes CAD/CAM systems, milling machines and materials for dentists and dental laboratories worldwide. It is headquartered in Mäder, Austria.
- Developed a modern data warehouse.
- Developed data ingestion pipelines with change data capture.
- Created data models using Kimball-style dimensional modelling.
Data Engineer · gastromaticAug 2020 – Jun 2021Data quality analysis and ML feature pipelines at an HR-tech start-up.
gastromatic makes workforce-management software (shift planning, time tracking and payroll) for shift-based businesses in hospitality, retail and healthcare, used by more than 12,000 businesses.
- Analysed the quality of financial data from multiple POS systems.
- Built data pipelines to add features to a machine-learning model.
- Developed a web scraper.
Software Engineer · econworksApr 2017 – Jul 2020Dashboards and data pipelines for a data-driven management consultancy.
econworks is an owner-managed consulting boutique helping its clients improve production and marketing efficiency.
- Developed three fully interactive analytical dashboards.
- Designed and implemented data pipelines for data sets with millions of data points.
- Developed a real-time monitoring dashboard for NPS scores.
- Developed a web scraper for price data.
Political and civic
City Councillor · Volt EuropaApr 2023 – Mar 2026Elected councillor in Darmstadt’s governing coalition.
Volt is a pan-European political party active in more than 30 countries, with five Members of the European Parliament.
- Shaped the political direction of Darmstadt as part of its governing coalition.
- Vice-chair of the committee on culture and city partnerships.
- Contributed to multiple proposals on digital transformation.
- Ongoing exchange with citizens, associations, initiatives and stakeholders from the local economy.
Municipal Campaign Manager · Volt EuropaDec 2020 – Mar 2021Ran Volt’s first municipal campaign in Darmstadt: 6.88% of the vote.
Volt had never run in a municipal election in Darmstadt before and had virtually no brand awareness.
- Achieved 6.88%, ahead of the established FDP and AfD and the best result Volt had achieved at the time.
- Led a team of 30 volunteers.
- Facilitated the planning, preparation and execution of the campaign.
Board Member and President · AIESEC DarmstadtDec 2018 – Feb 2021Led the local branch of an international student organisation.
AIESEC is a global, youth-run non-profit founded in 1948 that develops leadership through internships, teaching and volunteering. It is active in more than 100 countries and territories.
- Led the local branch of AIESEC with 20 members.
- Managed a board of five.
- Oversaw the branch’s finances.