Executive Summary
Pragmatic, "zero-to-one" technology leader and software architect with over 17 years of engineering experience and a proven track record of scaling startup engineering from the ground up. I specialise in aligning deep technical architecture with critical business goals, bridging the gap between development teams, internal operations, and external partners. At PowereX I drove the technological vision that scaled the company from 3 to 30 employees, expanded active trading to 4 countries, and supported revenue hyper-growth from €5K in 2020 to €3.21M in 2025. My leadership philosophy is built on transparency, zero bureaucracy, and retaining top-tier talent. I remain deeply technical—acting as primary architect and administrator for core infrastructure—while building resilient, high-performing teams.
Professional Experience
Served as official CTO until Jan 2024; transitioned title during investor restructuring while retaining all technical, architectural, and cross-functional leadership responsibilities.
Built the company's engineering organisation and core trading architecture from scratch. Directly responsible for all technology decisions, cloud infrastructure, external technical negotiations, and leading a cross-functional engineering department of 7 engineers (5 developers, 2 DevOps).
- Business Impact & Scaling: Led engineering execution supporting hyper-growth — revenue from €5,000 in 2020 to €3.21M in 2025. Platform manages 1.7 TWh of energy volume and 100 MW of BESS and flexibility assets across 4 active countries.
- Automated Trading: Developed an end-to-end, 24/7 automated trading system integrating forecasting, market analysis, and real-time execution to maximise client revenue.
- Flexibility Asset Management: Engineered real-time, AI-based management for standalone and co-located assets (BESS, PV, CHP, Telco BESS) to dynamically control each asset based on market conditions, forecasts, and technical constraints — prioritising economic performance while safeguarding asset health and lifetime.
- External Negotiation & Protocols: Act as primary technical liaison, handling communication and negotiation with external vendors. Engineered complex integrations using REST, SOAP, Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, and Kafka.
- Team Leadership: Scaled the company from 3 to 30 people and established low-bureaucracy SDLC workflows. Central communication hub aligning development, DevOps, Data Science, HW team, and all other business units.
- IT Ecosystem Administration: Principal administrator for the company's entire software and infrastructure backbone: AWS, Google Workspace, GitHub, and all internal operational tooling.
- Acted as technical mentor and cross-functional team leader across major enterprise projects.
- Analysed business processes to identify areas for technical improvement and optimisation.
- Designed architectures, integrated complex external vendor solutions, and resolved critical performance bottlenecks for high-traffic lottery and gaming systems (Euromillion, Tip2Go, MultiJoker).
- Led code reviews and collaborated directly with external vendors to align technical solutions with business requirements.
- Senior Developer — First Data Corporation: Nov 2018 – Dec 2018. System design, core architecture decisions, and CI POCs.
- Software Developer — Erste Group IT: Jan 2013 – Mar 2013. Data processing applications for the Pricing Engine loyalty project.
- iOS Developer — Odyzeo: Oct 2012 – Nov 2012. Created the multi-platform social event iOS application, Waymi.
- Java Developer — Millennium: Oct 2010 – Aug 2012. Supported the NIS system for banking operations (FO-BO).
- Junior J2EE Developer — Cleverlance: Aug 2009 – Sep 2010.