Munich, Bavaria, Germany
I started my career building embedded and automotive systems and have spent the last 20+ years exploring how software systems can work together at increasing scale. My journey has taken me from embedded software and messaging technologies to event-driven architectures, distributed platforms, federation architectures, and adaptive systems. Today, I focus on how globally distributed applications, services, and data can interoperate and evolve while remaining resilient, governable, and aligned with business goals. I am particularly interested in federation architectures, distributed systems, semantic interoperability, and the emerging role of AI in adaptive software ecosystems. My work frequently touches topics such as event-driven systems, system-of-systems architecture, domain-driven design, and the challenges of enabling collaboration across organizational and technical boundaries. My role often sits between strategy and implementation: I explore new architectural concepts, build the first working versions, prove they work in practice, and help teams make them successful. I enjoy connecting long-term technology strategy with hands-on engineering and helping organizations transform architectural ideas into capabilities that can be adopted at scale.
Responsible for shaping architectural approaches that enable globally distributed applications, services, and data to interoperate, compose, and evolve across organizational and technical boundaries. Focus areas include: * Federation Architecture * Distributed Systems * Event-Driven Architectures * Semantic Interoperability * System-of-Systems Architecture * Adaptive and AI-enabled Systems Activities include: * Defining technology strategies and architectural direction * Evaluating emerging architectural patterns and technologies * Developing architectural prototypes and proof-of-concepts * Establishing governance models for distributed environments * Supporting cross-organizational collaboration and alignment * Driving knowledge sharing through workshops, coaching, and conference presentations
As part of an innovation lab, worked on self-learning map technologies that continuously adapted to driver behavior and usage patterns. The resulting platform served as a foundation for personalization and predictive driver assistance capabilities. This work strengthened my interest in adaptive systems, contextual intelligence, and the evolution of software beyond static behavior.
Worked on distributed automotive software systems and map-based driver assistance technologies. Contributed to the development of compact electronic horizon solutions that enabled vehicle-wide sharing of predictive road and route information. This early work focused on context-aware systems, large-scale data distribution, and the integration of software across heterogeneous vehicle platforms.