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Engineering Leadership · AI Enablement

I lead engineering teams and help them ship software in steadier, more human ways — now increasingly with agents doing the heavy lifting.

I have been leading engineers for more than four years, and my work today is about moving teams to agentic ways of working. Not as a tool rollout, but as a real change in how people build, decide and own what they ship.

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How I work

I have spent my career in e-commerce, where I currently own the booking funnel for five travel brands: the portal and content delivery, hotel and package search, and checkout. It runs across a large set of services and carries a serious load of sessions and bookings every month. But how those numbers come about matters more to me than the numbers themselves.

My teams run what they build. They decide on their own architecture, they ship to production themselves, many times a week, and they carry the consequences. I build the framework around that: guardrails, a review culture and a pipeline people can rely on. I stay out of the decisions a team closer to the problem will make better.

That is why I did not treat the shift to AI-assisted development as handing out tool access. Getting the tools in place is the easy part, even when security and privacy need convincing and a budget needs signing off. The real work comes afterwards. Engineers who see their role being questioned need a reason to take part, not a mandate from above. I work with training, with visible examples from our own codebase, and with clear rules on where a human decides and where a machine does not. Without that clarity, adoption stalls at the first doubt.

Experience

Leadership

Good engineering leadership is equal parts technical judgement and making it easy for people to do their best work. I run teams in dual leadership with product owners, and I care about the whole arc: recruiting, onboarding, growth and the day-to-day coaching that turns a group of developers into a team that ships with confidence.

Education & languages

German
Native speaker
English
Full professional proficiency