Professional Career
A timeline of my professional journey
Engineering Manager @ SAP LeanIX
Leading a team of engineers working on core functionality for SAP LeanIX EAM Inventory. Building AI-Enhanced features that meet customers where they work.
Servant Leadership
Enterprise Architecture
AI
Software Development Manager @ Autodesk
Leading multiple teams (14 reports) working on graphics for the web and mobile, design sharing and real-time interactive environments, pushing the capabilities of open formats like OpenUSD, MaterialX for its use on the web. Improved service metrics & capabilities.
Engineering Management
OpenUSD
MaterialX
WebAssembly
Real-Time Graphics
Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk
Collaboration between Autodesk and Microsoft to extend Fluid Framework for rich collaborative data exchanges. Implementation of a hierarchical, strongly typed data store and components to run the server backend on AWS using AWS native service offerings.
Fluid Framework
TypeScript
AWS
Real-Time Collaboration
Microsoft
Senior Product Owner @ Autodesk
Managing multiple cloud products with a large user base, integrating multiple Autodesk desktop products, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max, and more.
Product Management
Cloud Products
Inventor
Revit
3ds Max
Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk (Bonn)
Working on next-gen Autodesk cloud products and microservices & maintaining online services with a large active user base.
Microservices
Cloud
JavaScript
TypeScript
Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk (Cambridge, UK)
Working on Autodesk Shape Manager, Autodesk’s 3D geometric modeling kernel used by Inventor, AutoCAD, Fusion 360, and other desktop products.
C++
3D Geometric Modeling
CAD Kernel
Teaching Assistant @ Bonn University
Teaching Assistant for the master degree lecture “physics-based modeling”.
Teaching
Physics Simulation
SHK @ Bonn University - NVIDIA CUDA Research Center
Student assistant at the NVIDIA CUDA Research Center.
CUDA
GPU Computing
Parallel Computing
Key Projects
Notable projects across roles
Service Improvement
Spearheaded modernizing existing services for faster deployment (5x), improved resiliency, enhanced visibility through better logging and metrics, and granular rollout via feature flags. Achieved a 6x reduction in operating costs while reinforcing engineering best practices and mindset within the team.
DevOps
Observability
Feature Flags
Cost Optimization
Microsoft Fluid - Implementation & Integration
Spanning multiple roles, supported the implementation of a new data store for Fluid to support hierarchical strongly typed arbitrary data for real-time applications. Implemented components to port the service infrastructure to AWS as well as integrating these capabilities into our service offering.
Fluid Framework
AWS
Real-Time Data
TypeScript
Proof of Concepts
Designing and implementing proof of concepts for various industry manufacturing and construction workflows in close collaboration with lighthouse customers. Including mass customization workflows in automotive, data-centric cross-cloud collaboration for additive manufacturing (3D printing), and automated drafting and estimation workflows for construction planning.
Automotive
Additive Manufacturing
Construction
Customer Collaboration
Education
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
M.Sc. Computer Science
Master thesis: “Using Euglena gracilis phototactic response mechanism to create a turing-complete system”. Coursework in computer graphics, robotics, AI systems, signal processing, and scientific computing.
Computer Science
Computer Graphics
Robotics
AI
B.Sc. Mathematics
Bachelor thesis: NVIDIA CUDA parallelization of finite element methods. Coursework in analysis, linear algebra, discrete mathematics, graph theory, and numerical methods.
Mathematics
CUDA
Finite Element Methods
Numerical Computing