Hamburg, Germany
Founder, software engineer, aerospace engineer by training.
I've run verlingo, a B2B HR-tech SaaS, for over ten years. It's used by 400+ companies across Germany.
The companies and tools I've founded, shipped, and still maintain. Some are ten-year commitments, some are experiments that grew.
Ten years in
Founder and Managing Director · 10+ years
The HR-tech SaaS I founded and have run for over ten years. It's now used by 400+ companies across Germany to handle work references and HR paperwork that used to eat entire afternoons.
AI Media & Storytelling
A live product that turns your kid, a family member, or a made-up hero into the star of their own children's book, ordered as a PDF, softcover, or hardcover.
Automation & Business Engineering
Public tender portals in Germany are a mess to track. This turns them into actual dealflow: relevant matches, prioritization, alerts, and AI-assisted applications.
AI Document Analysis
German work references are written in a coded language most people can't read. Upload yours and it translates the code into a plain grade, an explanation, and suggestions to improve.
Open Source & Tools
An open-source library for scanning documents right in the browser. Edge detection and perspective correction, no server round-trip.
AI Media & Storytelling
An experiment in AI storytelling and immersive audio: personalized stories you listen to rather than read.
Essays on AI, aviation, and mobility. Usually me thinking through something I'm not yet sure about.
2026-08-04
Everyone watching the connectivity race is looking at orbit. The layer that will actually undercut satellite economics sits at 20 kilometres, in the lower stratosphere, and in 2026 it stopped being a research project. This is the physics, the aircraft I sized to test it, and the money now backing the category.
Read2026-07-09
Taalas is etching entire LLMs into silicon like a game cartridge. Etched just came out of stealth with working transformer ASICs and a billion dollars in contracts. The hardware side of inference is finally getting interesting and the endgame might be a frontier model humming quietly on your home server.
Read2026-06-08
Writing code with AI agents can often feel like you are lost in translation. Why is that, and what can we do about it?
ReadEmail is the fastest way to reach me. I read everything, especially about software, AI, or aviation.
