Welcome to my page.

I am currently working as Founding Software Engineer at Nexus Events working on an innovative online networking product - we're hiring!

I'm excited about solving interesting problems, positively impacting users, growing, and mentoring. Years of startup experience did not only improve my technical skills, but also mean that I have extensive experience directly working with customers, users, and other stakeholders.

Feel free to connect with me!

Interesting Links & Downloads to Some of My Work

• 2020: Anjunabeats Playlist Generator
  

  To help celebrate the 20th birthday of music label Anjunabeats, I built an app for them that generates a playlist of recommended tracks based on user input. To do that, I fetch Audio data from Spotify, and then process and compare it across the whole label catalog.

  Create your own playlist

  

• 2017: Echolot Music
  

  I am passionate about music so I am a heavy user of various music streaming services like Spotify and SoundCloud. Also being interested in data analysis, I started working on a side project to visualize my listening behaviour. As a first step, I created a small web app to surface the tracks you have listened to the most on Spotify, retrieved via the Spotify API.

  See your top tracks on Spotify

  

• 2017: Founder Center: Enabling Access to Collective Social Capital
  

  While working at Affinity Hive, I co-authored an HCI paper in collaboration with Stanford University. We propose a system to enable users to make use of their collective social capital.

  Download Paper

• 2015-16: TUM iOS Praktikum 2015/16 with Roche
  

  I participated in the 2015/16 iPraktikum and it was one of the best modules I took in college. If you are going to TUM and are thinking about taking the course, do it!
  From the course website:

  This lab course covers mobile applications for smart devices, ranging from standalone applications, embedded systems including hardware and sensors to the design of modern interfaces for complex business applications. Students learn and apply software engineering and usability engineering techniques. This includes object oriented modeling and system design as well as the realization of graphical user interfaces, usability testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery. Real industrial partners provided the problem statements and acted as clients. 11 companies participated in the iOS Praktikum WS 15/16, each with a different problem statement and its own team. More than 100 students delivered these applications using agile techniques and communicating continuously to their clients.

  All of us 7 students worked together with Roche to create a prototype of an iOS app for diabetes patients connecting with Apple Watch, HealthKit, and Bluetooth blood glucose readers. In addition to being a coder, I was also the team's Modeling Representative, which means I was responsible for the creation of informal (mockups, trailer) and formal (UML) models with help of the whole team.

  Watch the Design Review presentation

  (Featuring yours truly)

• 2015: Dan Work Research Group
  

  During my year abroad at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I worked with a data set covering four years of taxi operations in New York City, containing 697,622,444 trips.
  The goal of my work was to explore the data set and propose ideas on how to predict where passengers can be found in real time.

  Presentation (pdf)

• 2012-13: Teaching Assistant at TUM
  I was a TA for Discrete Structures in winter semester 2012/13 and for Fundamentals of Algorithms and Data Structures in summer semester 2013.
• 2012-13: Guinea Pig for Research
  The homework for the class Introduction to Functional Programming at TUM was coupled with a fun programming challenge. The course staff later published a paper about their expierences with the class.
• 2011-12: Munich Transport (Android 2.1 or newer)
  

  This lightweight app shows the next departure times for S-Bahn trains in and around Munich. It includes precise real-time data.
  This was a small project during my first year at university and has not been touched since then. I created this app by reverse-engineering the S-Bahn München API and learning Android as I went along. The app needs a redesign, small bugfixes, and lots of refactoring, but apart from that, the app is quite reliable. It therefore comes "as is".
  Update: Looks like the API has been changed, so I need to re-reverse-engeineer the API. Since I currently do not live in Munich, this project is put on hold for now. :-( Please contact me if you need this app to be working again!

  App Download (apk)