Bring me an AI problem and I'll take it from idea to production, then hand your team a system they can run without me.
Principal-level engineering, and genuinely easy to work with: clear updates, honest trade-offs, no ego. Build, advise, or train, whatever the work needs.
Production ML since 2018
Whatever shape it takes, the goal is the same: something real, in production. Happy to start small.
From idea to production, end to end.
Usually 2–8 weeks. Fixed scope where I can.
A senior pair of eyes when you're stuck or just starting.
From a single call to a few days a month.
Get your team fluent on the modern AI stack.
Half a day to a few sessions.
Drop me into your team for a stretch.
Usually 1–3 months.
Founder
An AI-powered breakout scanner SaaS for retail traders. Under the hood the company itself runs as an agent ensemble: trading, research, coding, sales, marketing, ops, monitoring, analytics.
Principal SW Engineer, GenAI & MLDevOps
Shipped the first production GenAI feature in a Legal-Tech SaaS. RAG with local and cloud LLMs, GDPR-compliant by design. I owned the AI strategy end to end.
Senior / Principal SW Engineer, Lidar Perception
A deep-learning lane-marking detector that shipped into production vehicles. Camera-lidar deep fusion. Pushed the ROS-stack throughput from 7 to 30 GBit/s.
Shipping beats demoing.
If it isn't taking real traffic, I don't count it as done.
Production-grade from the start.
Observability, evals, and deploy pipelines are part of the build, not a later cleanup.
You're always in the loop.
I carry the hard parts and keep you in the picture: clear written updates and decisions you can see. No surprises.
Easy to work with, on purpose.
One focused call and a short written update a week. I fit how your team already works: light on meetings, heavy on clarity.
Low-risk by default.
Fixed scope where the work allows it, T&M only where uncertainty is real. You always know what you're paying for.
Engineer based in Nagold. Eight years of production ML so far: autonomous-vehicle perception at Bosch, then GenAI at caralegal as Principal SW Engineer, where I owned the AI strategy end to end. These days I'm founder of TrendSurfer, where the whole company runs on an agent ensemble. It doubles as a very honest proving ground. Research background at ETH Zürich in optical communications.
I work with a few teams at a time, so every project gets real attention. Mostly fractional and project work, with the occasional full-time role when the fit is right. If something here sounds like your problem, I'd like to hear about it.
Pre-equalization technique enabling 70 Gbit/s photonic-wireless link at 60 GHz
First author
Microwave plasmonic mixer in a transparent fibre–wireless link
Salamin et al.
Ultra-fast millimeter wave beam steering
Bonjour et al.
Whether you've got a concrete project or you're just trying to work out if AI is even the right tool, I'd love to hear about it. No pitch required, bring the messy version. I reply within two working days, and you'll get a straight, useful answer either way.