Fractional CTO / Technical Leadership
Technology strategy, team building, architecture decisions, process design, technical due diligence.
Freelance Technical Lead, Industrial Software, Automation & IIoT
Technical entrepreneur with more than six years of experience as founder and managing director of a deep-tech company. I combine hands-on software development (Node.js, Python) with strategic product leadership, team building, and direct client work. My background: a doctorate in engineering, eight years of research at Fraunhofer, and the experience of bringing a technology product from the initial idea to series deployment at industrial customers.
I support companies where technical depth and an entrepreneurial perspective need to come together: building engineering teams, architecting industrial software systems, digitising manufacturing processes, and providing technical leadership for complex projects.
Technology strategy, team building, architecture decisions, process design, technical due diligence.
Backend design, device integration (OPC UA, TCP, MQTT), event pipelines, API design, database modelling. Productized: a 6-week OT/IT integration sprint with fixed fee.
See the sprint offer →Computer Vision (OpenCV, PyTorch, ONNX), pattern recognition, ML prototypes through to production deployment.
Network architecture, virtualisation (Proxmox), CI/CD (GitLab), Docker, server administration.
OPC UA factory demo with controler panel and Grafana dashboard.
opcua-factory demoPython backend / API (FastAPI) for the localization, segmentation, and analysis of Data Matrix codes using OpenCV and machine learning. Browser UI (Gradio) with a REST interface to the backend. Frontend and backend containerized and orchestrated.
Role: Architecture, development, customer support
Central Node.js application for the complete print and inspection process on production lines. Integration of printers, scanners, controllers and sensors via TCP, XML, REST and OPC UA. Real-time dashboard (Socket.io), full traceability.
Role: Architecture, development, commissioning, customer support
Image recognition system for re-identifying parts based on non-standardised markings. Descriptor computation and similarity search in a vector database. Deployed under extreme process conditions (heat, deformation).
Role: Concept, algorithm development, production deployment
Full-stack development of a procurement platform for the aerospace industry. Reporting module, supplier and material management, quote comparison.
Role: Full-stack developer in an international team
End-to-end technical support from requirements analysis through commissioning to after-sales. Remote configuration of faulty controllers via TCP/XML API. Customer-specific software extensions.
Role: Project lead, development, customer support, after-sales