About
I advise the way I would want to be advised when it was my company.
For most of my career the software I built was my own responsibility. As a co-founder I answered for the architecture, the product and the invoice, and I look at other people’s products with an owner’s eyes now.
How I got here
I started writing software in 2006 to build things of my own. Then came an apprenticeship, the German way of training developers, and five years in client projects, which taught me early to talk with customers directly. In 2015 I co-founded TeamGrid, a project planning product for agencies, and led its engineering from the first architecture to years of daily use. In 2021 I co-founded VineForecast, farm management and disease forecasting for winegrowers, and was responsible for architecture, infrastructure and most of the implementation in a small team.
In both companies I had a hand in the code, the product and the interface. My feel for how a product is used, and for the small decisions that make a product good, comes from that work.
Along the way I have hired and led developers, modernised a stack in production without customers noticing, moved infrastructure onto our own cluster, coached founding teams in a life-science accelerator, and sat on the technical side of investor conversations. Today I bring that experience to other companies as an independent consultant.
How I work
Product first
Every decision serves the product.
Side by side
I talk to your developers directly, work in your tools, and treat their view of the weak spots as the most reliable data there is.
Automate what repeats
Anything a person does twice by hand gets a script, a pipeline or a workflow. In my own work and in yours.
In short
- Based
- Bovenden near Göttingen, Germany. Remote across Europe, in person around Göttingen and for kick-offs elsewhere.
- Languages
- German and English, both fluent.
- Tools I reach for
- TypeScript, React and React Native, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker and Kubernetes. Comfortable in adjacent stacks when the job needs it.
- Outside client work
- I maintain SignalDB, an open-source database for reactive apps, and build a few products of my own. SignalDB and my own products are on the references page, because they show how I work when the brief is mine.
Want to talk?
A first call is half an hour and costs nothing but the time. Tell me where your product stands.