Solutions Architect · Project Manager · Graz, Austria
I gather what my customers need and build the solution together with my team, guiding and organizing the whole process. From infrastructure to software.
“Communication is key — let's shape the future of IT together.”
Coming from software and backend development, I like to make sure that the systems we build are what the customer actually wants. From a young age I was interested in how things work: I was the annoying kid that asked why, to the detriment of parents and teachers — that's when I wasn't singing. Luckily for my colleagues I liked to share my knowledge and homework, and studied together with them for exams. As I liked to tinker, I went to HTL Bulme and learned electrical engineering there, with a special focus on English and project management. While I had learned some programming before, it was there that I actually started to love coding and solving the little puzzles that come with it.
The next logical step after that was studying computer science. During my years at TU Graz I worked as a studying assistant — I loved teaching then and I still love it now — and majored in IT-Security and Internet of Things. After finishing my studies I started working as a backend developer and quickly drifted towards a more customer-oriented role: project management and technical sales. There my love for teaching — or in this case, translating complex topics — and for sitting down with a topic I know little to nothing about came in handy when talking to customers who had deep expertise in their field, but didn't know software development.
Today I am still true to my love for technology and passing on my knowledge. At RiKuWe, which I founded in 2025 with Christian Rieger and Thomas Kugi, we build cloud infrastructure without lock-in effects: I build products with Thomas and Chris, and I do the sales and requirements engineering. At Fraiss IT I build solutions with my team, combining requirements engineering, project management, and sales. And in the local community I go to events concerned with technology and software development — I'm now a regular at the Linux Cafe, where we help users set up a Linux distribution so they don't have to throw away perfectly good hardware that has been obsoleted by Windows.
Fields: requirements engineering · project management · technical sales · teaching · ASP.NET Core · Docker & Kubernetes · CI/CD · IT-security
Cloud infrastructure and managed hosting without lock-in effects, founded together with Christian Rieger and Thomas Kugi. Reliable, scalable, GDPR-compliant — and thought through before it is built. I build products with Thomas and Chris, and I do the sales and requirements engineering.
I build solutions with my team, combining requirements engineering, project management, and sales — from the first meeting with a customer to the running system, across fields like sanitation, micro public transport, and mobility at higher ages.
I go to local events around technology and software development, and I'm a regular at the Linux Cafe: we help users set up a Linux distribution so perfectly good hardware, obsoleted by Windows, doesn't end up in the bin.
Experience
Customer strategy, sales, and requirements engineering for a cloud-infrastructure and managed-hosting company built to avoid lock-in.
Started as Senior Software Developer, grew into architecture, QA processes, and teaching new hires; then project lead, requirements engineering, budget negotiations, CI/CD pipelines, key accounting, and consulting for software, IT-security, and digitalization.
Technical and business leadership: product direction, engineering, and operations.
A teaching platform for computer-science courses: teachers manage courses, content, and exercises with automated testing in a secure, isolated environment. ASP.NET Core, React, Kubernetes, GitLab CI.
Research in Internet of Things and IT-security; taught context-aware computing, architecture of distributed systems, and reworked the microcontroller and mobile computing labs.
Six years of teaching across introductory programming, software development, operating systems, computer organisation, and embedded/microcontroller courses.
Education
Major in IT-Security and Internet of Things. Thesis: MAC Protocols in WSN — an Evaluation of Different Techniques. Followed by the LEAD spring school on security and correctness in the IoT (2017).
Electrical engineering with a special focus on English and project management. Matura with distinction — and the place where I started to love coding.
Talks
Toolbox
Development: C# / ASP.NET Core, PHP / Laravel, Python, SQL
Operations: Docker & Kubernetes, Ansible, GitLab CI / Woodpecker
Working with people: agile project management (Kanban, Scrum), requirements engineering, moderation & public speaking
Languages: German — native · English — fluent, daily use · Japanese — basics
I mentioned that I used to sing — that's not really true, though: I still do.
A fresh take on folk rock. I sing, and I lead and organize the band together with Richard Diesterbeck — somewhere between an Irish pub, the Alps, and the streets of Graz.
My former band is taking a break after two awesome albums, Mistakes Were Made and Golden Mistakes — check them out on YouTube and Spotify.
Behind the microphone there's a decade of vocal coaching — and away from it I'm an avid social dancer, these days focusing on West Coast Swing.
I write on the RiKuWe blog — mostly about the ideas behind good infrastructure, and how to talk about them.
Why multifactor authentication is indispensable today — and how companies can benefit from it.
The EU cloud is not a wish — it's a necessity. And it is possible.
YAML sits at the heart of many IaC frameworks, even though it is not a programming language. Why that is a problem.
The onion principle in IT-security, explained — layers matter, and not only when they make you cry.
Trust in your business and project partners is important — and so is a structured approach to working together.
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You know your field. I'll bring the software side. Tell me what you need — that's where every good solution starts.