About Me
My professional journey and experience
I'm a Staff Engineer based in Heidelberg, Germany, with 8+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native systems — primarily in healthcare tech and B2C platforms. My background spans the full arc from researcher to founder to individual contributor. I spent time at DFKI and the Hasso Plattner Institute early in my career, then co-founded and served as CTO at DrAnsay AU-Schein GmbH, where I grew the engineering organisation from 3 to 15 people and the platform to 2M+ users. I deliberately stepped back from management to go deeper on architecture, platform engineering, and systems design — which is where I do my best work. I'm currently based in Heidelberg, working remotely for a Hamburg-based company. Outside of work: I'm interested in personal finance systems, European geography, and building tools that make developer workflows faster.
What I Do
Technical Strategy
Defining architecture roadmaps, evaluating build-vs-buy decisions, and making high-impact technical choices that align with business goals.
Platform Engineering
Building cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer platforms that enable teams to ship faster and more reliably.
AI-Assisted Development
Leveraging AI tools for rapid concept-to-solution prototyping. Accelerating development cycles while maintaining code quality and architectural integrity.
Hands-On Execution
Staying close to the code — architecting systems, writing critical path code, and unblocking teams on tough technical challenges.
Experience
Staff Engineer
Dec 2019 - PresentDrAnsay AU-Schein GmbH | Hamburg, Germany (Remote from Heidelberg)
Digital health platform for sick leave certificates. Previously CTO (team of 15); transitioned to Staff Engineer as the organisation scaled to 40 engineers.
Platform engineering and cloud architecture for a telemedicine platform connecting patients with licensed physicians for online consultations, prescriptions, and digital healthcare services — serving 3M+ patients across Germany. Previously served as CTO, transitioned to hands-on engineering as the company scaled.
- Own end-to-end cloud architecture on GCP — 10+ microservices processing 100K+ requests/day with a P90 SLA commitment.
- Reduced production incidents from several per day to approximately twice per month through structured on-call, runbooks, and automated alerting.
- Leading platform migration from Cloud Functions to GKE-hosted managed services, improving deployment isolation and enabling independent service scaling.
- Implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, enabling multiple production deployments per day with full audit trail and one-click rollback.
- Designed and rolled out Gravitee API management platform governing 10+ internal and external APIs; enabled self-service API publishing for the engineering team.
- Defined engineering standards, ADR process, and code review culture adopted across a 40-person engineering org.
- As CTO: hired and grew engineering from 3 to 15 people; led the technical strategy that took the platform from MVP to €20M ARR.
Resident Entrepreneur
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019Data4Life · Hasso Plattner Institute | Potsdam, Germany
Selected for a competitive R&D programme at HPI's health cloud initiative.
- Designed architecture for a voice-driven data collection platform; built functional prototypes used to validate product-market fit before full investment.
- Represented Data4Life at HIMSS 2019 (Orlando), pitching to healthcare executives and potential partners.
- Led technical hiring for the Barcelona mobile team expansion.
Guest Researcher
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018DFKI GmbH | Kaiserslautern, Germany
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence — one of Europe's largest AI research institutions.
Research at one of Europe's largest AI research institutions, focused on context-aware computing.
- Researched context-aware survey systems; conducted comprehensive literature review identifying gaps in adaptive question design.
- Designed and implemented a rule-based dynamic survey engine adapting questions based on real-time signals (location, weather, sensor data).
- Built extensible architecture supporting future biometric sensor integration (accelerometer, heart rate).
UI Designer (Industry Project)
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016Fraunhofer IESE · John Deere ETIC | Kaiserslautern, Germany
Joint Fraunhofer–John Deere project for agricultural technology interfaces.
- Designed speech recognition UI for agricultural machinery operators as part of a joint Fraunhofer–John Deere project.
- Delivered wireframes and interactive prototypes aligned to John Deere's design system.
Education
European Masters in Software Engineering
2015 - 2018TU Kaiserslautern & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Germany & Spain
Network Security, Product Line Engineering, Semantic Technologies, Human Computer Interaction, Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
2008 - 2014Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University | New Delhi, India