Hamburg, Germany
Founder, software engineer, aerospace engineer by training.
For over ten years I've run verlingo, a B2B SaaS in HR-tech now used by 400+ companies across Germany. Alongside it I build open-source computer-vision tools and smaller AI products. Before all of that I managed aircraft production at Airbus. I write here about AI, aviation, and the gap between what we predict and what actually ships.
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.
Writing
Essays on AI, aviation, and mobility. Usually me thinking through something I'm not yet sure about.
2026-08-06
A new class of aircraft is learning to sit still in the stratosphere for weeks at a time, working like a satellite without the rocket. Sceye and Airbus's Aalto are quietly turning that into an industry.
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 an AI agents can often feel like you are lost in translation. Why is that? What can we do about it?
ReadSay hello
Email is the fastest way to reach me. I read everything — especially about software, AI, or aviation.
