About
I am a data enthusiast and end-to-end developer of complex, Cloud-Native, global software solutions in an environment of backend engineering, robotics & Big Data. My interdisciplinary skill set reaches from software development to dev-ops to data science and machine learning. In my current role at Cruise, I am helping to shape the future by building autonomous driving software, developer productivity tools, infrastructure APIs and automation. My previous hands-on experience in global teams with IBM and Mercedes-Benz is built upon numerous projects to build data-driven products, high throughput APIs and collection, storage, preparation and analysis of data to make valuable predictions and support decisions.
Many of my skills are self-taught on evenings and weekends. The internet has taught me about the command line, building websites, building RESTful and gRPC APIs, getting comfortable with git, writing programs with Python, creating free Add-on nodes for SPSS Modeler and analyzing data with pandas, skikit learn and numpy. I read everything about Docker on a beach in Cuba with an app that allowed me to download websites. Ever since I have been a heavy user of the software and teach others how to use it. That again helped me to get into the Cloud-Native space and I learned everything about Kubernetes and Helm. I have written multiple production ready kubernetes controllers and operators and created an maintain a Kubernetes CLI plugin to manage multiple clusters at once, which is used by engineers across many companies. I constantly try to further educate myself. (All links lead to examples of my work).
University
I graduated with a B.Sc. in business information technology from the Cooperative State University Stuttgart in Germany.
Projects
I have worked on a great variety of projects in various roles. They all were data driven and software development centric. I have been a data science consultant with IBM for many large corporations like Daimler, Continental, Porsche, Bosch, Fiducia. I have been a software developer with Mercedes, my startup energy-smart, Cruise, as well as for open-source software. I worked as a backend engineer for Mercedes-Benz and Cruise in Silicon Valley. For all details of the projects publicly available, head over to my Linked In page, where I keep an up-to-date list of my projects.
Resumé
If you're interested in my professional and educational history, you can take a look at my resumé here.