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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.
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
Software engineering & system design
Domain expertise
My programming toolbox
What I'm currently learning
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, & DevX • 2024
form-js
Developer-friendly & extensible JSON-based form editor and renderer that can be embedded anywhere
Product, APIs, Developer Experience • 2023
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
Product • 2022
Web Modeler
BPMN process modeling + testing platform for enhanced business-IT collaboration
Enterprise Application UX & Developer Experience • 2021
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 Engineering • 2021
FikaTalk
"Coffee break" video chat app for remote teams to break silos, accelerate knowledge transfers and support diversity
Full Stack Development & Product Shipped • 2020
CURSOR Surveys
Scalable survey tool for online surveys and callcenters with native CRM integration
Hackathon • 2019
Oberösterreich Travel Assistant
AI travel assistant to help travellers plan trips and activities around a specific route with smart suggestions
Hackathon • 1st place winner • 2019
Vodafone Ticket Bot
24/7 self service bot and transparent incident management for B2B customer service
Full Stack Development & Product • 2017
EasyInstall
Dead simple property maintenance software for businesses and property owners
Chatbot • 2018
CURSOR-CRM Service Chatbot
Easily embeddable chatbot for customer self-service solutions with native CRM integration
Full Stack Development & Product • 2014
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 & Product • 2014
CURSOR-CRM Infoboard
Fully extensible and highly individualizable dashboard technology for CRM, BI, and case management
Academic work
Essay • 2020
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 Development • 2021
ChronicleDB Cloud, a High-Performance Event Store
Distributed event store / time series database with strong consistency using the Raft consensus protocol
Research & Master's Thesis • 2021
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/Microservice • 2021
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 Engine • 2018
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 boilerplate • 2020
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).
