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function buildOutstandingProducts(users) {
focusOnUsers(users)
.then(() => beAgile())
.then(() => maximizeUserExperience())
.then(() => laserFocus())
.then(() => deliverContinuously());
}

About me

Hi! I'm Christian.

I build developer platforms by leveraging 12 years of experience in product management, software engineering, and UI/UX design.

I describe myself as T-shaped: When designing and building new products, I blend technological expertise with a holistic understanding of markets, future trends, and user needs.

I am driven by a passion for accelerating time-to-market, crafting seamless user experiences, and innovating solutions to complex challenges. Let us think outside the box!

You can find me near Frankfurt am Main, Germany—or let's connect now on LinkedIn.

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My skills

My skills are backed up by 12+ years of experience in building developer-orientered products
and 3 years of building a full stack SaaS application as a startup founder.

Product management

Lean/Agile
SaaS Applications
Product Discovery
Customer Development
Jobs-To-Be-Done
Continuous Delivery
Customer Interviews
Data Analytics
API Management
Design Thinking
Rapid Prototyping
Three Horizons Model
OKRs and Goal Management
UI/UX Design
Accelerate Go-To-Market
Conference Speaking
Developer Relations
Technical Writing

Software engineering & system design

API Design & Development
Full Stack Development
Distributed Systems
Time Series Databases / Event Stores
Machine Learning
Information Retrieval
Semantic Web
Voice Interfaces / Chatbots

Domain expertise

API Orchestration
Business Process Management and Notation (BPMN)
Developer Ecosystems
Human Task Orchestration
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Case Management
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Low Code Application Platforms
iPaaS
Workforce Intelligence
Process Orchestration
Data Visualization
Legacy Application Transformation & Feature Parity

My programming toolbox

JavaScript
ECMA 6
React
Java
OpenAPI/Swagger
Spring Boot
Node (Express)
gRPC
Kafka
ElasticSearch
MongoDB
Python
Docker/Kubernetes
Preact
Jupyter
scikit-learn
Gatsby
Dart
Ruby on Rails
SQL
Netlify
Git
GitHub/GitLab
AWS
Azure
Groovy
Hadoop
C/C++
JQuery
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Babel
Webpack
OpenAI
Maven/Gradle

What I'm currently learning

LLMs + GenAI
React/Gatsby
Vector Databases
Machine Learning
Distributed Systems
Graph Databases
Blockchain + Smart Contracts
Web3 / dApps

Work history

Camunda

Product Manager
Camunda provides the most developer-friendly process orchestration platform that enables true end-to-end orchestration. I led Camunda's developer-focused BPMN modeling portfolio, guiding strategy and growth. I drove the Web Modeler's success, expanding user base and enterprise clients. We helped professional developers to speed up their software development lifecycle by integrating seamlessly into developer workflows. I also introduced a broad range of developer tools, APIs, SDKs, and an off-the-shelf Tasklist app, tailored for human task management, gaining traction with early adopters.
2022 - 2024

CURSOR Software AG

Product Manager
CURSOR is the specialist in CRM and BPM for utilities in Germany and beyond. At CURSOR, I transitioned from software engineering to product management, driving innovation and addressing customer needs. I led initiatives such as transforming legacy systems into cloud-based solutions and revolutionizing help desk operations with case management, efficient human workflows, chatbots, and surveys. Spearheading our first cloud-native service and implementing cost-saving low-code UI solutions for developers and business were among my notable contributions.
2011 - 2022

Aviate Solutions

Founder
We founded the company in 2015 with the vision of creating a platform to digitize professional maintenance and field service management. Working solo or with small teams, I developed a SaaS solution with Rails and a native Android app. Despite launching to the B2B market within a year and acquiring 20 customers, profitability remained elusive, so we closed down the business—but kept the learnings.
2015 - 2018

Show reel

Product, UX, Low-Code Toolkit, & DevX2024

form-js

Developer-friendly & extensible JSON-based form editor and renderer that can be embedded anywhere

Product, APIs, Developer Experience2023

Web Modeler CI/CD Integration

File and version management API, SDLC best practices, test tooling, and CI/CD process blueprint for a tight integration of Camunda in the SDLC

Product2022

Web Modeler

BPMN process modeling + testing platform for enhanced business-IT collaboration

Enterprise Application UX & Developer Experience2021

CURSOR-CRM Card Layout

New, composable card layout for CURSOR-CRM web application to empower customers to build their own CRM with ease

Idea, Product, UX, & Backend/API Engineering2021

FikaTalk

"Coffee break" video chat app for remote teams to break silos, accelerate knowledge transfers and support diversity

Full Stack Development & Product Shipped2020

CURSOR Surveys

Scalable survey tool for online surveys and callcenters with native CRM integration

Hackathon2019

Oberösterreich Travel Assistant

AI travel assistant to help travellers plan trips and activities around a specific route with smart suggestions

Hackathon • 1st place winner2019

Vodafone Ticket Bot

24/7 self service bot and transparent incident management for B2B customer service

Full Stack Development & Product2017

EasyInstall

Dead simple property maintenance software for businesses and property owners

Chatbot2018

CURSOR-CRM Service Chatbot

Easily embeddable chatbot for customer self-service solutions with native CRM integration

Full Stack Development & Product2014

CURSOR-CRM Infoboard Tilebuilder

Web IDE for flexible development of custom tiles (interactive dashboard components) entirely in JS for CURSOR-CRM Infoboards

Full Stack Development & Product2014

CURSOR-CRM Infoboard

Fully extensible and highly individualizable dashboard technology for CRM, BI, and case management

Academic work

Essay2020

Model based approach of Data Integration in Graph Databases

Essay about a model based approach for data integration in graph databases, explaining how to put the data integration on the model layer using triple graph grammars and executing it on the application layer using generated gremlin queries

Distributed Systems Development2021

ChronicleDB Cloud, a High-Performance Event Store

Distributed event store / time series database with strong consistency using the Raft consensus protocol

Research & Master's Thesis2021

Replication in Data Stream Management Systems

Thorough investigation of replication and partitioning mechanisms, consistency models, consensus protocols and analysis of the application of strong consistent replication to ChronicleDB using the Raft consensus protocol

Hobby projects

Product Management/Planning Framework/Microservice2021

Theme-Based Roadmap using Trello as the Backend

Simple theme-based roadmap using Trello as the backend. Manage your roadmap content using the simple, well-known interface of Trello boards while having a well-formatted, readonly roadmap

Frontend/Game Engine2018

No Canvas Street Fighter Clone

Street Fighter clone prototype, written entirely in plain JS and CSS without the use of canvas or frameworks

Scientific paper boilerplate2020

Markdown/LaTeX boilerplate for scientific papers

Write your well formatted professional paper, essay or thesis at ease with markdown and latex and export it as PDF (with bibliography).