Professional Summary
Principal Architect with 15+ years delivering production-grade platforms — from real-time sports data engines and cross-platform mobile games to industrial IoT cloud infrastructure serving millions of edge devices. Trusted to take full ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and see them through with technical integrity and end-to-end accountability, from whiteboard to live system.
Repeatedly chosen to lead engineering teams and build IT departments from the ground up, combining long-horizon strategic thinking with hands-on execution. Brings clarity to architecture decisions, mentors engineers, and holds the line on quality — even under pressure.
Career Timeline
Current position
Experience
ZYNE · TTTech
Principal Product Architect
📍 Vienna, Austria
Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mo
Principal Cloud Platform Architect for an IoT data platform supporting millions of edge devices with hundreds of sensors each.
Ingesting and transforming terabytes of data in parallel in a highly secure environment.
Strategic technical decisions for ISO 27001 certified and NIS2 ready cloud platform.
Arteria Technologies
Head of Information Technology
📍 Graz, Styria, Austria
Jan 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mo
Built up the company with founder and scaled solution from prototype to productive environment. Lead software and research teams and managed infrastructure.
ANDRITZ
Specialist, Enterprise Content Management
📍 Graz, Austria
Apr 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mo
Development team lead and software architect within a global engineering organisation.
Owned the SAP HANA cloud platform service and led adoption of Mendix low-code for internal tooling.
Drove digital transformation initiatives across full-stack web and mobile — spanning Azure cloud development, Node.js backends, and SharePoint.
NOVOMATIC / Cervo Media GmbH
Mobile Games Developer / Head of IT
📍 Graz, Austria
Feb 2015 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mo
Built cross-platform mobile games in C++ for Android and iOS under the NOVOMATIC umbrella.
Simultaneously served as Head of IT at Cervo Media — responsible for backend and frontend development, Windows and Linux server administration, Azure infrastructure, PostgreSQL, and network security end-to-end.
RunningBall
Software Developer / Architect
📍 Graz, Austria
Jan 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mo
Developed and architected Java desktop client applications and server-side systems for a real-time sports data platform.
Contributed across the full stack — from core application architecture to 3rd-level support — in a fast-moving, reliability-critical environment.
FH Joanneum
Software Developer — Research & Development
📍 Graz, Austria
Oct 2011 – Mar 2012 · 6 mo
Microsoft Lync integration for a partner company — embedding the Lync API into SharePoint and web portals. UI design and framework development.
It'sYou
Developer
2011 – 2012 · 1 yr
AS3 / PHP programming for promotional games and web contests.
Netconomy Software & Consulting GmbH
Software Developer / Intern
Jan 2011 – May 2011 · 5 mo
Web development with Hybris shop system. Web frontend with JSP/JSF.