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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 am tech lead and manager of a small team of Google Engineers working on systems that affect the entire Google deployement infrastructure, impacting 50+ services that actuate production changes of all the services powering GCP. The first product powered by this is Trusted Cloud by S3NS for France. 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