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A German state funding programme needed 718 organisations to send documents to a public authority securely. I built all of it.
AI Solutions Engineer · Solution architecture
I was its only engineer. I take a system from the problem through architecture, code, security and rollout, and I run it afterwards. The work spans production software, applied AI and shared operational responsibility for our internal Microsoft environment. Where a model sits in the path, what it is allowed to decide is set by the architecture around it.
Selected systems
A German state funding programme needed 718 organisations to send documents to a public authority securely. I built all of it.
A learning assistant for a university C course that answers only from indexed lecture material, routes each question to the agent that owns the source, and gives hints rather than the finished solution.
The answer to the thesis above. A retrieval agent over a tenant’s own documents where the rules are held by the architecture: the tenant filter is a database policy, and an answer that fails the citation check is not sent.
German public contracts are spread across the EU tender database and every platform the federal notice service carries. This reads both daily, and searches them in the compound nouns German procurement is written in.
At ISG I am one of the primary technical contacts for internal teams and external providers. I share operational responsibility for the Microsoft environment and assess the data-access, security and technical implications of new applications.
Two more
Helps applicants for German disability benefits submit a complete case. It never predicts the rating; the law reserves that to a medical assessor.
A planning board and a calendar per teacher for a psychology department that was scheduling by hand in a spreadsheet.
Background
An independent social and economic research institute in Cologne and Berlin, working for German federal and state ministries. IT administration for two offices first, then software engineering, system ownership and the technical side of what we buy from providers.
My own company in Denmark. Vergabeautomat and the other products here, plus the infrastructure they run on.
Bergische Universität Wuppertal · Information science, software engineering, and electrical and systems engineering.
Since 2017 with one employer, working on systems handling personal data for public-sector and research programmes. IT responsibility from the start; software delivery since 2022.
Happy to walk through any of these in detail, including the parts that went wrong.