Enterprise MQTT platform — built and scaled the managed cloud offering from zero.
Experience
2021 – present
Principal Cloud Architect
2021
2019 – 2021
Senior Software Engineer
AI-powered quantitative trading — machine learning models for capital markets.
2015 – 2019
2009 – 2015
Research Assistant
University of Mainz · University of Paderborn
Storage systems research — archival storage, parallel file systems, research data management.
2003 – 2015
Freelance IT-Consultant
Condition monitoring for industrial machine parks. Java development, system administration.
2003 – 2009
Student Research Assistant
University of Paderborn
C-LAB · Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing.
Education
2015
PhD in Computer Science
University of Paderborn / University of Mainz
LoneStar: Design and Evaluation of an Energy-Efficient, Disk-Based Archival Storage System
2009
MSc in Computer Science
University of Paderborn
Efficient Database Driven Metadata Management for Petabyte Scale File Systems
2008
BSc in Computer Science
University of Paderborn
Evaluierung eines Fuzzy Logic basierten Admission Control Ansatzes für Videostreaming Applikationen
Publications
USENIX FAST 2015
ACM Transactions on Storage, 2016
MERCURY: A Transparent Guided I/O Framework for High Performance I/O Stacks
PDP 2017
Other
2004 – 2010
Co-Founder & Chairman, C3PB e.V.