I'm currently traveling and running some personal experiments around Sri Lanka, Japan, USA / California and Europe.Current location: Europe / DACH

EDITIVE's vision is to build "GitHub for content" and to redefine content-based collaboration: Put an end to your document file chaos with multiple competing versions, incomprehensible change history and merge conflicts. EDITIVE is a technology spin-off of the chair for Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).I co-founded EDITIVE with Hannes Dohrn (CTO), Taina Temmen (COO), Marius Kreis (CPO) and Prof. Dirk Riehle (Chief Scientist). First Employees: Mark Rudtke (Engineer) and Thomas Brunner (Senior Engineer).My achievements include:* Winning and complementing the founding team* Securing 1.1M € seed funding: public fundings as well as angel investments from Peter Vatter (Ex Schaeffler), Marius Kreis (Co-founder Elohna) and Paul E. Sevinç (Co-founder Doodle)* Customer development: 100+ discovery calls and vision gen / technical demos* Winning the first 50k € of revenue through direct sales* Launching blitzcompare.com with 100+ public beta users, including some DAX logos

Founded in 2013 by Sascha Konietzke and Paolo Negri, Contentful has pioneered the headless CMS space to become the leading intelligent composable content solution in the market, revolutionizing content experiences for thousands of global brands like Atlassian, Bang & Olufsen, Electronic Arts, Ikea, Red Bull, Spotify and Porsche and 30% of the Fortune 500.With a $175 million Series F funding led by Tiger Global, Contentful soared to a valuation of over $3 billion. Backed by Tiger Global, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton, and more.The Solution Strategists - imagine a team of field CTOs - provide value as thought leaders within the pre-sales team, offering strategic guidance as to the quickest way to achieve value with Contentful. I was the first / only external hire into the team with Jay Bodenhausen, Jim Ambras and John Graham, led by Jonathan Phillipps.My achievements include:* Co-creating value with Contentful's 1M$ accounts in EMEA* Co-strategizing with C-level and digital leaders in 100+ high-stakes sales opportunities* Detangling customer challenges and designing a way to overcome the most critical business issue* Driving adoption from single use cases to building digital factories in multi-brand enterprises* Impacting average win-rates (+35%) and deal-sizes (+45%) and growth beyond 200M$ ARR* Inspiring customers and partners, e.g. about the future of web

I joined the FAU's chair for Open Source Software to spin-off and co-found EDITVE.

bewegewas is an open innovation partner for large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies with focus on management consulting, building MVPs, products, startups and digital business models based on emerging technologies like SaaS, Cloud, IoT, AI, AR and VR.CDO role: responsible for establishing digital platforms as a service based on Drupal OSS CMS, resulting in growth of this new digital business and recurring revenues from zero to 20% of total revenue.CTO role: responsible for recruiting, onboarding and leading the dev team of 10 people; multi-product owner for hardware and software products; trusted advisor and thought leader for customers.bewegewas GmbH was acquired by Conrad Electronic SE.My achievements include:* Winning, consulting and co-innovating with DAX 10 companies like Volkswagen / Audi, leading software vendors like DATEV and other industry leaders like VITRA* Successfully selling, defining and delivering solutions based on Drupal CMS, e.g. a university platform and a developer portal (Drupal / IBM API Connect)* Successfully delivering MVPs for automotive, e.g. a labelling platform for training LLMs (headless Drupal & JS frontend) with an OEM and an IoT Device with a tier 1 (presented at CES Las Vegas)* Establishing an open innovation process and workshop formats (idea > MVP > product / startup)* Successfully transforming the holding from „innovation agency“ to „open innovation partner“* Co-inventing a patent in autonomous driving and data privacy with AUDI AG (worldwide application, including EU, US and China - WO2020114716A1, EP3785236B1, US2021256780A1, CN112602123B)

Grasenhiller GmbH is a it-systems company with 5 divisions and 100+ employees where I bootstrapped and led the Internet & E-Business department from zero to 100+ customers.My achievements include:* Bootstrapping: winning, designing and engineering (full stack) 50+ projects by myself before ... * Hiring, training and leading a team of 5 employees* Winning and building Drupal enterprise CMS based solutions with 100+ customers* Launching 5 SaaS products (e.g. for secure data transfer, digital signage, multi-site platforms) * Driving annual sales growth up to 59 % through a strong focus on customer needs * Community building and speaking (e.g. DrupalCamp Munich, Nürnberg digital, WebDay, DUG) * Providing hosting for 500+ domains* Finding a highly critical DNS security issue impacting 250k+ domains and DAX companies and leading the responsible disclosure with the hosting provider

Sales, go-to-market and development for web solutions based on open source content management systems and technologies such as HTTP, PHP, JS, HTML and CSS.