Experience

adretto

• Switzerland
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Zurich, Switzerland



Zalando

• Germany
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Engineering - Research and Development - Size & Fit Team - Zurich

  • Jan 2022 - May 2022

  Zurich, Switzerland

• Engineering Manager - Research and Development - Size & Fit Team - Zurich

  • Apr 2021 - Jan 2022

  Zurich, Switzerland Achieved a successful integration of a start-up that joined Zalando as part of an acquisition into the mature Zalando Size & Fit organization with zero attrition more than one year in. Merged a Berlin and a Zurich based engineering team that had spent years working in the same problem space and had invested in different approaches, which led to considerable tension in the early stages of the integration. Under my leadership the merged team set common goals, developed a strong common vision for… Show more Achieved a successful integration of a start-up that joined Zalando as part of an acquisition into the mature Zalando Size & Fit organization with zero attrition more than one year in. Merged a Berlin and a Zurich based engineering team that had spent years working in the same problem space and had invested in different approaches, which led to considerable tension in the early stages of the integration. Under my leadership the merged team set common goals, developed a strong common vision for achieving these goals, and agreed on common ways of working. Today the team is healthy and productive, has delivered the first common vision, and is excited to repeat the process and develop the next vision together. The acquisition itself was the outcome of multiple assessments of possible acquisition targets I had conducted over several years. It was triggered after a second member of the Size & Fit Leadership team and I gave a positive assessment of the Zurich team.

• Engineering Manager - Research and Development - Size & Fit Team - Berlin

  • Apr 2017 - Apr 2021

  Berlin Area, Germany Driving a long-term R&D project aimed at creating photorealistic images of arbitrary garments on arbitrary bodies. We 3D scan garments, reconstruct the sewing patterns they are composed of, run a numerical simulation we built from scratch on the fabric to determine how it drapes around the target body, and render photorealistic images. We visualize areas of tightness/looseness to help customers choose the fit they want before placing the order.

• Senior R&D Engineer

  • Nov 2016 - Mar 2017

  Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland I became Zalando's fist ever R&D Engineer. Experimenting with applications of 3D scanning, soft body physics simulation, and computer graphics (physically based rendering, augmented reality, virtual reality, etc.) for the fashion industry.

• Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

  • Aug 2014 - Oct 2016

  Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland Worked on the Purchasing, Private Labels, and Content Creation teams. For the Private Labels subsidiary, designed a system architecture to allow them to decouple all their business processes from the parent company's systems. For the Content Creation team, lead the effort to migrate their systems to the cloud, including 12TB of data. Lead the architecture design for the next major iteration of the content creation software suite.



Detectonomics / Freie Universität Berlin

• Lead Programmer

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2014

  Berlin Detectonomics is a spin-off of the Freie Universität Berlin that markets an early stage lung cancer detection product. Having worked on the project in its early stages in 2010, I rejoined as the technical lead in 2013. Part of my responsibilities was to establish software lifecycle and quality assurance processes according to IEC 62304 and ISO 13485 norms in order to assure software quality at a very high grade, as is fundamental for medical device software.



Aperto Move GmbH

• Native Mobile Developer

  • May 2012 - Dec 2012

  Berlin Responsible for implementing native mobile apps in a number of projects and across all common mobile platforms.



Uplivion Technologies GmbH

• Founder & CTO

  • Feb 2011 - Apr 2012

  Berlin Uplivion Technologies is a start-up I founded for making high-end C++ game engines available in the browser. The project received an EXIST government grand. In December 2011 we released a browser demo of the title Handball Challenge, which was played about 10.000 within two months.



Detectonomics / Freie Universität Berlin

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jun 2010 - Jan 2011

  Berlin I rejoined Detectonomics in 2013. Please see above for details.



Jagex

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Tools Developer / Engine Developer

  • Aug 2008 - May 2010

  Cambridge, Großbritannien Joined as Tools Developer. After three months, I took on the challenge of rewriting RuneScape’s (10 million monthly active players at the time) pure Java renderer in a mixture of Java, C++, and Assembler utilizing Intel SSE vector instructions. When it went live, it became the default renderer for 60% of the player base, and was faster than the hardware accelerated OpenGL version on the low-end computers most of the players were using, while supporting most of its visual effects. At the time… Show more Joined as Tools Developer. After three months, I took on the challenge of rewriting RuneScape’s (10 million monthly active players at the time) pure Java renderer in a mixture of Java, C++, and Assembler utilizing Intel SSE vector instructions. When it went live, it became the default renderer for 60% of the player base, and was faster than the hardware accelerated OpenGL version on the low-end computers most of the players were using, while supporting most of its visual effects. At the time of my leaving about 1.5 million players were using my renderer in every two-week period. Show less



Celos Computer GmbH

• Germany
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programmer

  • Aug 2001 - Jul 2003

  Ulm Centron is a goods trade software that is today the leading product for computer retailers in Germany. It has an extensive Graphical User Interface and is built on top of an SQL database.