Systems Architect
Systems architect for AI and platform work. I design how infrastructure, platform and product fit together, then make that design run.
Engineer and engineering leader since 2012, working where systems meet: from embedded navigation R&D, through API platforms and engineering teams in Berlin, to sovereign AI infrastructure today.
My work is finding the structural cause behind recurring problems and fixing it once at platform level. At HERE Technologies I led the documentation platform and docs infrastructure for the whole company: 300+ projects across all products. At Homeday I grew from one team to two, then built a QA department from scratch across every department it touched. At Glowing Pixels I operate a 441-repository forge, three Kubernetes clusters and a family of 26 shared Go kits as one coherent platform, with multi-agent AI delivery governed by explicit rules earned from real failures.
I help companies when product, security and engineering see the same initiative differently, or when a pilot needs to become an operable system.
Experience
Venture exploration 2022 - 2024 (Antler); platform research and build 2025; adoption and offers 2026.
- Run a 441-repository forge, three GitOps-managed Kubernetes clusters and Vault-managed secrets as one platform; set one merge policy across all repositories with a pre-change snapshot for one-step rollback.
- Found duplication across 84 Go repositories and extracted 26 shared kits, now used by 13 consumer projects.
- Designed a multi-agent engineering operation (single-owner lanes, four-tier escalation, ten verification rules traced to real failures) so several AI coding agents ship to the same repositories safely.
- Delivered private inference and document automation (classification, extraction, routing) that turns manual inbox flows into structured events, designed so that no document, prompt or model output leaves the client's network.
- Maintain the authoritative fork of the Matrix homeserver Dendrite after upstream went dormant, with a four-release roadmap.
- Grew from leading one cross-functional team to two (5-8 engineers each); raised delivery maturity across CI/CD, observability, test strategy and on-call.
- Chosen to build a company-wide QA department from scratch: negotiated its role and interfaces with every department, designed the end-to-end quality workflows, ran the hiring loop and hired its first senior engineers.
- Several teams adopted its practices before a collapse in the property market halted the rollout.
- Led the documentation platform and docs infrastructure for the entire company: automated verification, building and publishing for 300+ projects across all products.
- Modernised service boundaries and deployment, and automated internal operations processes.
- Founded the engineering team and led the architecture of a deep-learning product under the EXIST programme.
- Split the monolith into services, designed the core API and localised the platform into 10+ languages.
- Built the Berlin team from scratch across a three-location setup while engineering grew from ~3 to ~20-30.
- Rails back end, AngularJS front end and Ansible-based deployment infrastructure.
- Led a multi-year, externally funded R&D programme in MEMS sensing and embedded navigation, from funding application to accepted deliverables.