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Experience

Seventeen-plus years. One consistent throughline: ship it, lead it, grow the team.

A career spanning 2009 to today — from an entry-level developer role at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to leading AI-supported tooling and technical delivery across MSQ DX.

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    MSQ DX March 2025 – Present Development / Technical Lead

    Full technical ownership from acquisition through delivery, across four countries

    Own technical delivery end-to-end for client projects spanning Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, and the USA. As technical lead of the “AI Squad,” I’ve established AI-supported tooling and process optimization across the MSQ Group and for major clients — including an internal Client Toolsuite that replaced scattered manual processes, and an AI Prompt Builder that turned prompt engineering into a governed, repeatable capability. Beyond delivery, I mentor and coach up to 46 engineers in German and English, run recurring tech talks and internal training, shape strategic alignment at team, department, and company level, own resource monitoring and capacity planning, lead strategic recruiting across departments, and serve as the single point of contact for internal stakeholders and external partners. I also administer the company’s Jira and Confluence systems.

  2. JACOB Elektronik logo
    JACOB Elektronik GmbH May 2022 – November 2024 Teamlead IT-Development & E-Commerce

    Disciplinary leadership across E-Commerce, IT, and Online Marketing

    Led three teams — E-Commerce, IT, and Online Marketing — with full disciplinary responsibility, while acting as Product Owner for the Frontend Development and Online Development teams. Drove the “New Online Shop” and “PIM System Introduction” initiatives as project lead, and took interim ownership of SEA, SEO, Analytics, Affiliate, and price-comparison marketing workstreams when needed. Set strategic goals at team, department, and division level; owned resource monitoring and capacity management; led bilingual (German/English) recruiting and team development; and administered the company’s Jira and Confluence systems.

  3. 1&1 Telecommunication SE logo
    1&1 Telecommunication SE Sept 2021 – Apr 2022 Head of Shop Frontend Components (a.i.)

    Full disciplinary leadership of an entire department

    Culminated four years of progression with full disciplinary leadership of developers and business engineers, hiring and onboarding ownership, vendor and contract management, and rights/roles administration for the entire Shop-Development department.

  4. 1&1 Telecommunication SE logo
    1&1 Telecommunication SE Sept 2020 – Apr 2022 Senior Business & Requirements Engineer

    Technical product ownership for frontend components

    Held technical product ownership for frontend components across the e-commerce area, functionally led a development team, ran feasibility studies and technical concepting, and deputized for the team lead.

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    1&1 Telecommunication SE Sept 2018 – Aug 2021 Ausbilder für IT-Berufe (Apprenticeship Trainer)

    Officially recognized trainer, run in parallel with core delivery work

    Co-responsible for hiring apprentices, planning the training curriculum, and holding functional and disciplinary responsibility for several apprentices at once — run in parallel with my Web Developer roles.

  6. 1&1 Telecommunication SE logo
    1&1 Telecommunication SE Oct 2017 – Aug 2020 Advanced Web Developer → Senior Web Developer

    From owning the DSL availability-check system to leading web tech training

    Started out owning the complex availability-check system in the DSL new-connections flow and related shop components (Oct 2017–Dec 2019). Grew from there (Jan–Aug 2020) into campaign, task, and bug work across 1&1’s web properties, training colleagues on new web technologies, and onboarding new and external developers into the shop environment.

  7. Netzbewegung logo
    Netzbewegung GmbH March 2014 – September 2017 PHP Developer (Frontend Focus)

    Responsive builds, TYPO3 sites, and early 3D/VR web experiments

    Built responsive websites using PHP and JavaScript frameworks including Zend, Google Closure, AngularJS, and Laravel, alongside responsive TYPO3-based sites for agency clients — among them Teekanne and TOGGO. Also built 3D and VR applications with Babylon.js and Three.js, developed HTML5/JS online games, and built and maintained Facebook apps — a broad, hands-on stretch that pushed my frontend range well beyond standard CRUD web work.

  8. KIT and smaller agencies 2009 – 2014 Earlier Career — Foundations

    Where it started: five roles, one steady dedication

    The years that built the foundation, starting as a software developer at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) — the research institution where a supervisor once told me I wasn’t suited for IT. From there, a string of PHP developer and team-lead roles at smaller Karlsruhe-region agencies (eyeworkers interactive, zibra media, mediachefs, ping24/7), including my first taste of combined team leadership and client acquisition. Short tenures, fast learning — the run-up to everything that followed.

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