AI Research & Engineering · Multi-Agent Coordination

About me

AI Research & Engineering · Multi-Agent System Coordination
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After 15+ years

in software engineering, I've turned my focus to the next frontier: intelligent systems.

I still advise startups on technical strategy, but these days I'm equally fascinated by the challenge of making AI agents actually work together. It turns out the hard part isn't building one smart agent. It's getting fifty of them to coordinate without chaos.

I care as much about how the pieces fit together as what each piece does.

What I do now

I research how AI agents coordinate at scale and build production tools to make it practical. I also write about the human side of this transformation.

Research: Harmonic Coordination Theory (HCT) proposes a musical ontology for multi-agent coordination. Current frameworks give you orchestration tools but lack a shared language for timing, quality, and intent. I fix this using cues, fermatas, tempo, and dissonance as engineering primitives.

Tools: I build production tools that solve real problems. Usually ones I've encountered myself.

  • AntiSlop: Multi-language linter for detecting AI-generated code slop
  • EnvCheck: Environment file linting for DevSecOps
  • NerfStatus: Scientific LLM degradation detection
  • SpeakOps: Real-time AI speech coaching

Writing: SeekingSota explores what happens when engineers stop programming and start conducting AI agents. Real agent workflows, technical deep dives, philosophy of production, and honest stories about the identity crisis that comes with this transformation.

Track record

  • Built the AI platform at Samsa.AI: multi-provider ML pipelines (fal, Replicate, HuggingFace), GPU infrastructure with PyTorch optimizations, and a cloud-native stack across AWS, Cloudflare, and Supabase
  • Built auteon from a blank editor to production, passing due diligence and securing seven-figure seed funding in 6 months
  • Took a PostgreSQL query from 15 seconds to under 500ms at PeterPark (that one felt really good)
  • Led the frontend reboot at Sixt that replaced a PHP monolith with a React SPA serving 1M+ monthly bookings

I've worked across wildly different domains: automotive spare parts, parking IoT, EdTech, marketing automation, and AI/ML. The common thread? Complex systems that need someone to care deeply about how all the pieces fit together.

How I got here

It started in 1991 on a Commodore PC-30: a 12 MHz 80286 with 512k of memory and a 20MB hard disk, mostly running Tetris and Digger. From there it was the i486 with internet access in 1993, MS DOS and Windows 3.11, Commander Keen, Day of the Tentacle, Command & Conquer - and, somewhere along the way, writing code became the point of it all.

The next years I spent writing code, thinking about the best tools available to write code, reviewing other people's code, debugging, planning features, talking to others about all those things, and so forth.

Working with me

I tend to get INTJ-A or INTP-A in MBTI tests, which makes sense as I am a huge fan of Tim Urban.

What people who've worked with me say: efficient, structured, technically deep - and the one you want next to you when a complex system needs someone to care about how the pieces fit.

When it comes to process, I default to lean and iterative: design thinking to find the right problem, agile to ship, and enough structure to keep a team aligned without drowning in ceremonies.

Languages: German (native), English (fluent).

Let's connect

I'm open to AI engineering roles, CTO positions, and technical advisory work. Remote-friendly, interesting problems preferred.

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"Avoiding complexity reduces bugs."

  • Linus Torvalds