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Work

02/2018 - today
Munich, DE		 Staff Software Engineer at Google
  • 2022 - today: Building a Sovereign Cloud for Europe. I work on systems to safely bring software changes to a cloud deployment while preserving its sovereignty. I lead the technical direction of a small team of Google Engineers and design systems that affect the entire Google deployement infrastructure, impacting 50+ services that actuate production changes of all the services powering GCP. Promoted to Staff Software Engineer (L6) in May 2024.
  • 2018 - 2022: Work on Identity, Recovery, and Anti-Abuse infrastructure. I led the technical direction of a small team of Google engineers to build intervention systems to re-secure Google Accounts after compromise (e.g. Cookie Theft) while allowing recovery by the original user. Promoted to Senior Software Engineer (L5) in Nov 2020.
04/2017 – 08/2017
San Francisco, US		 Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Development of artificial intelligence for the real-time strategy game Dota 2 for the project OpenAI Five. We used massively scaled reinforcement learning to beat the best human players in the restricted game mode 1v1 Shadow Fiend mid, with a release at the game’s world championships. I contributed to infrastructure connecting the game's API with the machine learning system and worked on a component to transform replay files of human matches into a usable internal format. The findings from the project were published in a paper.
11/2015 – 01/2017
London, GB		 Co-Founder/ CTO at Tembryo
I co-founded Tembryo with Richard Mason to create an "AI Coach for gamers". We built Wisdota, a website to help gamers improve at Dota 2 by providing coaching tips generated from automatic analysis of their gameplay. I worked on the entire technical solution, including infrastructure, orchestration, full-stack web development, replay file analysis and machine learning. We presented at the EF5 demo day, took part in the YC Fellowship programme, and raised £40k funding from a US angel investor.
09/2015 – 03/2016
London, GB		 Cohort Member of EF5 at Entrepreneur First
Ground-up creation of a tech startup, including team formation, ideation, customer development, implementation of first product, pitching and fundraising.
06/2013 – 05/2015
Munich, DE		 Student assistant/scientific assistant at fortiss GmbH
Implementation of a 3D geometry simplification program boundingmesh. The algorithm was published in a techreport.

Education

10/2013 – 09/2016 M.Sc. Informatics at Technical University of Munich
10/2011 – 09/2013 B.Sc. Informatics at Technical University of Munich
10/2008 – 09/2011 Early study programme Informatics at Technical University of Munich
09/2003 – 07/2011 Abitur at Michaeli-Gymnasium München

Publications