About

I study Information Systems (M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Munich and am co-founding SeaMark Systems. Before that, I spent two years building software for ADAS and autonomous-vehicle development at Mercedes-Benz, in Stuttgart and in the Bay Area.

Experience

  1. Co-founder

    SeaMark Systems (opens in a new tab)

    Hack-Nation Venture Lab, Stanford, USA

    Building a verification and validation suite for autonomous surface vessels: simulating how AI-driven ships behave in edge cases, from dense fog to sensor failures, before they go to sea. Invited to Venture Lab cohort 3 after the 6th Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon.

  2. Intern, Big Data & AI Engineering

    Mercedes-Benz R&D North America (opens in a new tab)

    San Jose, USA

    Part of the Mercedes-Benz–NVIDIA autonomous-driving research cooperation. Built a big data platform end to end (Spark ETL, microservices, Azure, Databricks) for 100K vehicles, designed to scale to millions. Engineered AI-first throughout.

  3. Working Student, Software Engineering

    Mercedes-Benz AG (opens in a new tab)

    Stuttgart, Germany

    Full-stack development of tools that control, abstract and monitor the hardware of ADAS test vehicles.

  4. Intern, Software Engineering

    Mercedes-Benz AG (opens in a new tab)

    Stuttgart, Germany

    Designed and implemented the software architecture for sensor control in ADAS test vehicles, including a hardware abstraction layer for system states.

  5. Bachelor’s Thesis, Software Architecture

    Mercedes-Benz AG (opens in a new tab)

    Stuttgart, Germany

    Micro-frontend architectures for modular web applications in vehicle prototypes: requirements engineering, interface design and a full-stack implementation with React, TypeScript, FastAPI, GraphQL and WebSockets.

  6. Intern, Management Consulting

    Lufthansa Consulting (opens in a new tab)

    Frankfurt, Germany

    Benchmarked AI models, built management presentations on digitalization and AI, and developed digital strategies for the aviation industry.

  7. Working Student, Software Engineering

    Collatum IT (opens in a new tab)

    Stolberg, Germany

    Full-stack development across frontend, backend and databases (Angular, Kotlin with Spring Boot, MongoDB), plus DevOps on AWS and GCP.

Education

  1. M.Sc. Information Systems

    Technical University of Munich (opens in a new tab)

    Munich, Germany

Projects & Awards

  1. 1st place, Stanford hub pitch

    6th Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon (opens in a new tab)

    Built a logistic-regression model that predicts antibiotic resistance from genome mutations.

  2. React Template CLI

    Open source (opens in a new tab)

    A template-driven command-line tool, written in C++, for scaffolding React components and building your own component library.

Teaching & Volunteering

  1. Teaching & Tutoring

    FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (opens in a new tab)

    Co-taught Java, JPA, Spring Boot, REST and AngularJS in the Interdisciplinary Project module, and tutored first-year students in computer science fundamentals.

  2. Handball Referee & Youth Coach

    ASV Schwarz-Rot Aachen (opens in a new tab)

    DHB-licensed referee and youth coach with a C licence.

  3. Inclusive Sports Coach

    TABALiNGO Sport & Kultur integrativ e.V. (opens in a new tab)

    Inclusive sports coaching and youth care supervision.

Languages

  • GermanNative
  • EnglishNative
  • FrenchB2 (DELF)
  • SpanishA2