Engineering leadership first, AI enablement now.
Head of AI Enablement · Y1 Digital AGRhein-Neckar, Germany
Twelve years from BI working student to Head of Development to Head of AI Enablement. Today I run company-wide AI enablement for a digital agency: agents in productive use across every department, autonomous dev crews that execute specced work, and the cost and usage discipline to keep all of it honest.
Led the system architecture of Schiesser's e-commerce re-platforming, delivered in parallel with the Centric PXM PIM implementation. The joint project was presented by Schiesser, Centric Software and Y1 on the K5 Future Retail 2026 stage: product data treated as business strategy, not an IT backend.
Initiated and own YARA, Y1's internal agent runtime. One place where agents meet the company's knowledge and tools: the backbone for rolling AI capability into every team, not just engineering.
Community catering app built as a part-time venture alongside my main role: Flutter app, GraphQL microservices, CI/CD into both app stores. Product development with my own money on the line. Shut down cleanly in 2024 when the market said no: the cheapest product education I ever got, and the perspective I bring to build-vs-buy calls.
I run a fully agentic studio: engineering, art and marketing agents shipping Death Before Decaf, a commercial roguelite in Steam Early Access, with me as the only human, acting as its decision board. It's where I stress-test agent orchestration, quality gates and cost discipline before they matter at work.
German & Spanish native · English fluent