From startups to infrastructure, this is my journey so far

At Würth IT, part of the international Würth Group, I work on the Platform-as-a-Service team managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across environments, ensuring they run smoothly and scale to handle millions of requests. I take care of storage, resources, monitoring, alerting, backup, CI/CD pipelines, and ArgoCD deployments. Beyond infrastructure, I support many developers by guiding them on building, testing, and deploying applications, harmonizing workflows across teams, and making our platform easy to use. My previous startup experience gives me hands-on insight into what developers need, helping me bridge the gap between infrastructure and product delivery in a very practical way.

I co-founded FitFull, a fitness startup where I built the full stack product: a mobile app with Expo, a web app and backend with Next.js, and the entire technical infrastructure. Beyond coding, I drove product launches with waiting lists, websites, and marketing campaigns, while engaging with early users and investors. We gained traction and investor interest, but ultimately I decided to move on due to misalignment with my co-founders. The journey taught me that building a startup goes far beyond software and traction. It's about the right team, vision, and execution.

PedalGo began as a school project rewarding employees for biking or taking public transport. The demand was surprisingly high, so we continued development beyond the classroom. As the only technical founder, I built the MVP, integrated payments, and drove early user traction. After validating the idea, I started a complete redesign with a new website, refreshed app design to turn the MVP into a scalable product foundation. Eventually, I stepped away because my co-founders (classmates) lacked expertise to grow it further. The experience gave me deep insight into building and launching B2B products, as well as the business side of running a startup.

I completed my mandatory military service, where I learned to stay calm under pressure, work well in a team, and be disciplined. The experience also taught me responsibility and how to handle tasks even when they are not interesting.

IT apprenticeship building the technical foundation for my engineering career. I had the opportunity to work in many different teams. From first level support over to databases, networking and development.