About
A leader who still opens the logs.
Technology earns its place when the business can rely on it. I would rather ship a small system that is tested, documented and recoverable than a large one that only its author understands.
Build the foundation first. Automate what repeats. Keep people in charge of the decisions that matter.
Background
I studied computer science in a dual degree from Lancaster University and the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, then completed a master's in Information Engineering at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. My focus there was web application security, cloud computing and DevOps.
I worked as a frontend developer in 2018, and later that year joined PlantaCorp as an IT working student. I moved into infrastructure consulting in 2019 and became Head of IT in 2022. Having worked at each level is why I understand IT from the network up to the user interface.
Current role
As Head of IT at PlantaCorp GmbH, I am responsible for IT infrastructure, enterprise systems, internal applications, digital processes and technology strategy.
I manage budgets, vendors and external service providers. I also design, build, troubleshoot and maintain technical solutions myself.
Leadership philosophy
I stay close to the work. Being able to review an architecture, read a log or fix a deployment makes my decisions about budgets, vendors and priorities better.
I prefer written procedures, small reversible steps and a clear owner for every system over large projects with a single risky launch day.
Technical approach
- Keep the behavior, change the stack
- Before replacing a legacy system, I write down what it really does, so that any change in behavior is a decision and not an accident.
- The model decides what. Code computes numbers. People approve risk.
- This is the design rule behind my AI work. Schedules, scores and sums come from deterministic code, and risky actions wait for a person.
- AI gets read access first
- An assistant should earn trust by reading, analyzing, proposing and documenting. Changing a business system stays with people.
- Every decision about a person is made by a person
- My recruitment prototype never scores or ranks a candidate. Remote support should start only with the employee's consent.
- Own your data
- I default to self-hosting where it is sensible, and I treat data protection as a design input rather than a final check.
Interests
Professional
- Enterprise AI
- Local LLMs
- AI agents
- Application modernization
- IT security and compliance
Personal
- Cricket
- Website development
- Social media
Languages
- English, fluent
- German, B1
The future of enterprise IT
I expect mid-sized companies to own more of their technology again. Capable local models, strong open-source software and AI-assisted development make it realistic for a small IT function to build what it once had to buy.
That only works with discipline: human approval, audit trails, tested recovery and clear data ownership. The future I am working toward is IT that sits close to the business, moves quickly and stays accountable for what it builds.