I build software products and lead the teams that ship them.

Twenty years between product and engineering. Right now at Ascléa, a medical AI company from the Charité, working on language models for hospitals.

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Work

Ascléa05/2026 to PresentBerlin / Remote
Technical Product Lead
Ascléa is a Charité spin-off (formerly x-cardiac). We build AI for hospitals. I lead product for Clé: open language models inside the clinical network, on-premise or in a EU cloud the hospital runs.
SWAN07/2025 to 03/2026Remote
Interim Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Interim CTO at a startup building connected hardware and software. Led 23 engineers across firmware, mobile and cloud. Defined IoT architecture and device-to-cloud communication; scaled the platform through to acquisition by a US company.
digetiers05/2022 to 08/2022Remote
Interim Senior Manager
Part of the leadership team at a management consultancy. Led a client project on AI-based used car pricing, from visual prototypes and click dummies through to a single-page app with real-time pricing models. Product ownership across discovery, epics, backlog, stakeholders and delivery with frontend, UX and QA in rapid prototyping cycles.
Jung von Matt01/2017 to 12/2018Hamburg
Technical Director
Built, trained and led a team of developers and technical project managers at one of Germany's leading creative agencies. Product strategy for major brands including BMW, Daimler and Lufthansa; co-led technical conception and delivery of global web presences. Drove PWA, headless CMS and VR/AR in a fast-moving creative environment.
IBM iX01/2015 to 12/2016Hamburg
Web Application Architect & Consultant
Helped establish IBM iX Studio Hamburg and build its digital capabilities: design, engineering and early AI research under one roof. Watson prototypes from 2015, including a BMW i8 configurator. Design Thinking workshops and client consulting; translated complex business needs into scalable architecture.
Jung von Matt09/2009 to 12/2014Hamburg
Senior Web Developer & Team Coordinator
Grew from developer to team lead and subject matter expert. Built digital products for major brands, mentored junior developers, and learned that the best code is the one that ships and works.
IBM08/2007 to 08/2009Hamburg
Web Developer
First job. Front-end for enterprise clients. A proper intro to web development.

Skills

Product and engineering in one head: Twenty years shipping software from architecture to go-live. I still write code, and I talk as easily with designers as with backend engineers.
AI since before the pitch decks: Watson prototypes in 2015, including a BMW i8 configurator. Today: language models inside hospital networks at a Charité spin-off.
Teams that ship: Led 23 engineers across firmware, mobile and cloud as interim CTO, through to acquisition. Built and trained teams at Jung von Matt and IBM before that.
Hardware to cloud: IoT architecture and device-to-cloud communication for connected products, from embedded constraints to mobile apps and cloud platforms.