Hello, World! I'm Brian.𝖨

I'm a full-stack developer at Slalom specializing in building AI-powered web applications. I work with Azure AI tools and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver intelligent, scalable solutions. With experience as both a project leader and developer, I help connect business needs with technical innovation. I'm passionate about building innovative tools that create real value.

Competencies

I bring both technical expertise and team-managing experience to teams. Over the years, I have gained experience in many different technologies. My main focus is on Full-Stack Web Development, AI, and Cloud Infrastructure.

Full Stack Developer

⚡ Building modern, React.js apps with Tailwind, Shadcdn, Tanstack

⚡ Building scalable RESTful APIs in Python using FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLModel

⚡ Designing and Maintaining databases (SQL and NoSQL)

⚡ End-to-end development, testing, deployment

AI Engineer

AI-102 Azure AI Engineer

⚡ Azure Certified AI-102 AI Engineer Associate

⚡ Crafting modern agentic solutions in Azure

⚡ Building RAG solutions for semantic retrieval and chat apps

⚡ Implementing guardrails for safe and responsible AI integration

Infrastructure and Architecture

⚡ Designing scalable, cloud-orchestrated architectures on Azure usign IaC

⚡ Building robust CI/CD pipelines for automated testing & deployment

⚡ Leveraging containerization to build reusable, scalable applications

Project Leadership & Scrum

Certified Scrum Master
Advanced Certified Scrum Master

⚡ Scrum Alliance Certified: Advanced Certified Scrum Master

⚡ Understanding the client's needs and breaking them down into technical terms

⚡ Prioritizing work to ensure the right work is done at the best time.

⚡ Enabling teams to grow with the Scrum principles.

⚡ Strategic planning, anticipating challenges, and transparent communication.

Experience

Slalom GmbH, München
Oct. 2024 - present
Senior Software Engineer

Full-Stack web developer on various projects, such as a large-scale document management platform built on Azure infrastructure. Architecting and implementing RAG solutions using Azure AI and Vector Search to enable semantic querying. Integrating Generative AI models to automate information extraction and enhance document processing capabilities.

CloudFlight Germany GmbH, München
Dec. 2019 - Sep. 2024
Project Leader, Senior Full-Stack Developer

I started as a full-stack developer in Cognostics AG (later acquired by Cloudflight), developing a dockerized web app for use in hospitals, with Typescript and Python in a large scrum team. Since 2022, I orchestrated various projects as a project leader, in parallel to the role of developer.

Storm Reply, München
Apr. 2019 - Sep. 2019
Master Thesis, Internship

As part of my master's thesis, I developed an automatic anomaly detection mechanism in the context of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides, I designed a reinforcement-learning reward function in Python with which our team won a local AWS DeepRacer Challenge

Max-Planck-Institut Tübingen
Apr. 2018 - Oct. 2018
Project Internship (Brain-Computer-Interfaces, Android Development)

During an internship within my master's studies, I developed an Android application in Kotlin for evaluating EEG-measurements with a bluetooth headset. The project led to several publications² and the source code can be found on Github.

Robert Bosch GmbH, Abstatt
Oct. 2016 - Feb. 2017
Bachelor Thesis Project

Over the course of three semesters during my bachelor's studies, I worked first as an intern and later as a working student in an agile Scrum team, contributing the development of a microservice-based cloud-architecture for road condition services. I developed a distributed testing-framework with Node.js, and contributed in the development of an AngularJS web app.

Education

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2017 - 2019
M.Sc. Cognostive Science

My studies covered a range of topics including computer science, with a focus on neural networks and AI, as well as neuroscience, Brain-Computer-Interfaces, scientific working methods, linguistics, and psychology.

Hochschule Heilbronn
2013 - 2017
B.Sc. Software Engineering

My studies focused on software design, architecture, and development, along with customer-oriented planning, agile project management, and consultation. I specialized in Digital Transformation, with a focus on enterprise information systems, data analysis, and machine learning to optimize business processes.