Professional Career

A timeline of my professional journey

Engineering Manager @ SAP LeanIX

Engineering Manager @ SAP LeanIX

  • Current
  • 2024
  • Present

Leading a team building agentic AI systems for SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management, including the EA Assistant, powered by the Enterprise Content Research Agent, named at SAP Sapphire 2026, along with the shared agent tooling other agent efforts across the organization have converged onto.

Servant Leadership

Agentic AI

Enterprise Architecture

Software Development Manager @ Autodesk

Software Development Manager @ Autodesk

  • Finished
  • 2022
  • 2024

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

Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk

  • Finished
  • 2021
  • 2022

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

Senior Product Owner @ Autodesk

  • Finished
  • 2020
  • 2021

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)

Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk (Bonn)

  • Finished
  • 2017
  • 2020

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)

Senior Software Engineer @ Autodesk (Cambridge, UK)

  • Finished
  • 2016
  • 2017

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 @ Bonn University

  • Finished
  • 2015
  • 2016

Teaching Assistant for the master degree lecture “physics-based modeling”.

Teaching

Physics Simulation

SHK @ Bonn University - NVIDIA CUDA Research Center

SHK @ Bonn University - NVIDIA CUDA Research Center

  • Finished
  • 2011
  • 2012

Student assistant at the NVIDIA CUDA Research Center.

CUDA

GPU Computing

Parallel Computing

Key Projects

Notable projects across roles

Service Improvement

Service Improvement

  • Finished
  • 2022
  • 2024

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

Microsoft Fluid - Implementation & Integration

  • Finished
  • 2020
  • 2022

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

Proof of Concepts

  • Finished
  • 2017
  • 2020

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

  • Finished
  • 2013
  • 2015

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

  • Finished
  • 2008
  • 2013

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